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BIG PUSH
ON
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 7, 1941.
BEIRUT
Australian Infantry Take Strategic Village
SOVIET-BRITISH Sharp Advance
ECONOMIC
TALKS
The "Ta Kung Pao" claimed to have learned from diplo- matic sources that the Soviet-British econo- mic negotiations are drawing to a conclu- sion and on agree- ment will be signed presently.
The agreement will provide, among other things, the shipment of rubber and tin to the Soviet Union Central News.
PANZERS FIRMLY HELD UP
(Continued from Page 11 oll for the German tanks at the front, according to a state- mont by a German prisoner. The prisoner said that guerillas, hiding in every village and hil- lock, were forcing the German command to use an increasing number of tanks to protect o!!! columns.
He said the guerillas let the tanks pass and then shoot at the
oil.
In Drive Along Coast
THE ALLIES HAVE LAUNCHED A BIG PUSH ON BEIRUT, THE LEBANESE CAPITAL AND VICHY'S KEY PORT ON THE MEDITER- RANEAN COAST, IT WAS ANNOUNCED IN JERUSALEM YESTERDAY.
Patrols which on Saturday were flung across the River Damour, 10 miles south of Beirut, were followed yesterday by Austra- lian infantry who attacked along the north bank and captured the strategic village of El Boum, which represents a sharp advance in the drive up the coast.
help.
Oil columns are suffering many
use any pretext to avoid
journeys to the front.
British bombers ham- mered Vichy troops who
casualties and German soldiers were strongly entrench- nighted on the north bank of the river and made the initial crossing by land forces possible.
Nazis Hard Up
For New Ones
A claim that 52,000 Soviet soldiers had "deserted" to the Nazis was made in a special an- nouncement from Hitler's head- quarters, according to the offcini| German news
agency in Berlin yesterday.
The incident was said to have occurred under pressure of the German pincer move from the west of Minsk.
Recently the Nazis made a sim- ilar c'alm, saying that the Rus- sians had first "shot their political commissars" at which time it was pointed out that the Russians had abolished this office some time to ago.-Reuter.
These attacks are so sudden that the tanks are unable
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They also bombed barracks and fuel installations in Beirut.
Beit-Din, 11 miles south-east of Beirut, where the left flunk of the Vichy army in this sector rests, was similarly attacked.
Statemate. Broken
This new push follows a long stalemate during which the Vichy forces have been resisting stub- River bornly along the Damour for more than two weeks.
While the Allied troops arc closing in on Beirut from the south, another column is main- taining pressure on the city from Damascus.
From Mazar, the Vichy troops! are shelling the advancing Allies and yesterday the intensity of the bombardment was reported to have increased slightly.
The centre of the front remain- ed quiet yesterday, with the Vichy troops still holding a number of points in the vicinity of Hasbaya.
Another Allied success is re- ported from central Syria, where the armoured column which captured Palmyra has now reached a point 25 miles from Homs, vital ral[way junc- tion from Tripoli and Aleppo, chief city of northern Syria,
Pincer Move
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This column was earlier ported to have occupied without opposition "Post Four," 33 miles from Palmyra. on the Mosul- Tripoli oll pipeline.
IN THE NEW ADVANCE TWO- THIRDS OF ·THE DISTANCE FROM PALMYRA TO HOMS HAS NOW. BEEN COVERED...
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The whole of Northern Syria, Including Aleppo, la thrus threa- tened by the pincer movements; of three Allled columns driving along vital arteries of the coun- try.-Reuter,
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SEVENTH LETTER
On the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the Sino-Japanese hostilities, to-day, a group of well known Chinese writers, in- cluding Kuo Mo-jo, Mao Tun. Hsu Ti-shan. Pa Chin, Ching Sung, Hsia Ying and Hu Feng, Hointly addressed a letter to George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Romain Rolland, Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and other Tamous, authors, expressing up. preciation of the encouragement and moral support accorded the Chinese by the intelligentsia of the world during the past four years of waren
The letter also urges all men of letters to unite together," and use the pen to awaken”” praco- loving nations to extinguish the flames of Fascism which are burning in a great part of the
Central New
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