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BATTLE FOR STALIN LINE Fierce New Clashes Expected

DRASTIC DEFENCE RULE

No male persons,

whe- ther of British nationality or not, are allowed to leave the Colony, under an Or- der gazetted under the Defence Regulations this morning.

The Order reads:-

No male person, whether a Bri tish subject or not, shall proceed from this Colony to a destinatiur outside it, except with the wrli- ten permission authority.

ordei

The provisions of this shall not apply to persons, 01 members of a class of persons generally or specially exempted therefrom by the Colonial Secre- tary.

U.S. KEEPING WATCHFUL EYE ON PACIFIC

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]

"The United States is keeping Q watchful eye on the Pacific as mounting indications point to a new Japan- ese military move in the near future.

Mr. Sumner Welles' statement on Japan's future course of ac- tion is taken in in-

Washington to of the competen

dicate plainly that a Japanese attack on Russia's back door or a move southward to the N.E.I. would be of direct concern to the U.S. International

In this order "competent author- ity" means the Commissioner of Police and includes any other officer appointed from time tc time under any Ordinance for the time being in force to control im- migration.

News Service.

R.A.F. READY IN THE FAR EAST

Russians Fall

Back On Network Of Defences

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

WHILE THE IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES OF THE GER- MAN DRIVE WHICH SMASHED ITS WAY ACROSS THE DVINA RIVER, IN LATVIA, CANNOT YET BE PERCEIVED, THOUGH IT PRESENTS A NEW THREAT TO THE RUSSIAN DEFENCES, MOS- COW CLAIMS THAT THE NAZI DIVISIONS SUFFERED GRIEV- OUS LOSSES IN THE PUSH.

While the crossing of the Dvina is another ITALIANS attack on the defences of Russia proper, the Soviet Defence

Commissariat, reporting SURRENDER

violent fighting on the southern bank of the Dvina, in the Dvinsk-Jakobstadt sectors, says the Germans only succeeded in crossing the river after throwing in all their reserves and suffering heavy losses.

IT WAS OFFICIALLY AN- NOUNCED IN NAIROBI YES- TERDAY THAT GENERAL GAZ-

ZERA, SUPREME ITALIAN

COMMANDER IN ABYSSINIA, IS SENDING ENVOYS TO AR- RANGE THE SURRENDER OF ALL ITALIAN FORCES IN

Fierce fighting is now reported on the GALLASIDAMO PROVINCE. north bank of the Dvina, where the Russians are launching counter-attack after counter- attack on the seriously depleted Nazi forces.

of

has the and

Every air and land branch the Russian war machine been thrown into action in great battle east of Minsk, Moscow quarters state that im mense losses have been inflicted on the Nazis.

On all other fronts the Red Army has stemmed the Nazi drive, according

a Defence

to

Meanwhile there has been no of the news of the outcome naval battle in the Gulf of Finland, which awakened Hel- ş'nki residents early

the morning.

"OUR AIR FORCE will certainly strike commissar at bulletin. hard and the provision of air bases in Burma and all parts of the Far East enables the Commander-in-Chief to swing the weight of the R.A.F. where it can be used to best advan- tage.

BOMBAY RIOT PLOT UNEARTHED

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In

guns

on

Helsinki Bombed

"Burma is building minąsweep- The continuous roar of ers and patrol vessels, while more could be heard plainly till noon equipment, including modern but there is no information mechanised fighting vehicles, is the result of the clash, which is arriving.

believed to have occurred be- "Expansion of the Army has tween a Nazi squadron heading been considerabla."

for the main, northern Russian naval base at Kronstadt and the Russian Baltic Fleet.

These are leading points from a broadcast by Lt. Gen. D. K. McLeod, General Officer Com- manding in Burma, on the eve of defence exercises.

He cald men, munitions and mechaniced equipment had been arriving for some time, build- ing up the Burma defendos "in" order that we may fulfil a ro'e

in the general scheme of Im-

perial defence,” ve

Conspiracy to_commit murder and rioting and to stab persons of a rival community, is claimed to have been unearthed by Many additional aerodromes had the police who connect been prepared and made ready to receive additional squadrons from the recent disturbances Malaya and India-Reuter. in Bombay with this plot.

The police arrested 20 perrons

Following the naval battle, Red! planes attacked. Helsinki for the first time in eight days, the alarm Jasting 20 minutes,Internation- al News Service.⠀⠀,

Policeman Runs Amok

[SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"}, A CHINESE CONSTABLE OF THE SHANGHAI SETTLEMENT POLICE: YESTERDAY MORN- ING RAN AMOK, KILLING A CHINESE MALE AND WOUND- com-ING: ANOTHER CHINESE. MALE

"AND A WOMAN,

who are alleged to be members, knives and clothes will throw Wof:the gang, which after being further light on the recent

supplied with drink and knives, munal disturbances.. were instructed, to slabe unwary Since the city has been quiet After completing his gruesome pedestrians ag

and free from disturbances for task the murderer turned his gun

It is belleved that these arrests some days, the authorities have on himself and committed suicide, und the ceizure of blood-stained | relaxed the curfew-Reuter.

-International News Service

Battle On Stalin Line

Nazl quarters said yesterday that the Red Army will undoubt- edly attempt to hold up the Ger- man advance in this network of fortifications in depth, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea. German troops, they declared, are now fast approaching the Stalin Line.

,'

The Nazis profess to believe

In the area for which the East Africa Force is responsible there are now only about 600 Italians in the fleld, They are. inland from Assab.

So, with General Gazzera's gur- render, it can be said that the campaign undertaken by the East Africa Force has concluded. Reuter.

that Russian prospects of hold- ing the Line are unfavourable because of the heavy losses the Red Army has already incurred. In East Poland and the Baltlo States.

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