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NAZIS ATTACK SOVIET FLANKS Thrusts At Ostrov And Mogilev EUROPEAN Moscow Claims SOVIET Victory In Swift PARLEY

Counter-Stroke

BADLY INJURED

Permanent Staff In- structor Wood, R.A., was the victim of a serious motor-cycle accident in the New Territories last hight.

P.S.I. Wood, who was driving an Army B.S.A. motor-cycle, was returning from Lowu at about 8 o'clock when he misjudged bend in the road near the Equine Sports Club at Shatin.

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The motor-cycle plunged the road into the 604, Wood being rescued by villagers and taken to the Equine Sports Club, suffering from injuries to the spine.

P.S.I. Wood was later remov- ed to Kowloon Hospital in an ambulance. His condition was; stated this morning to be grave.

U-BOAT SUNK OFF GIB.

A German submarine was sunk off Gibraltar yesterday morning by the Fleet Air Arm, according to Spanish reports from La Linea.

Two members of the crew were rescued and taken to Gibraltar.

submarine It is believed the

was lying in wait for

a large

British convoy of 27 vessels which

passed through the Straits terday morning.-Reuter.

NORWAY'S

FIGHT

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CONCENTRATION OF THE HEAVIEST WEIGHT OF THE GER- MAN OFFENSIVE POWER AGAINST THE TWO WINGS OF THE LONG BATTLEFRONT FROM THE BLACK SEA TO THE BALTIC IS INDICATED IN LATEST MOSCOW COMMUNIQUES.

ARMISTICE OFFER REFUSED

BY GEN. DENTZ

Radio Paris, quot- ing a message from Beirut yesterday, said the British High Com- mand in the Near East has made an- other armistice pro- posal

General Dentz, in command of the Vichy forces in Syria, which was again rejected.-Reuter.

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Japan Tightens

Belt

WITH THE POLISH

A further meeting was held between Russian and Polish representatives last All through the night of Monday-Tues-Saturday to discuss rela- day and yesterday morning, great bottles tions between the two ebbed and flowed in the Ostrov and Mogilev-countries. Podolsk sectors, the former on the Russo-

Latvian frontier, and Mogilev on the Russo-

Bessarabian border.

Strong Soviet counter-attacks have stop- ped the Nazi assaults in their tracks, accord- ing to official reports on the operations, in which the Nazis are battering against strong points in the Stalin Line.

The Germans have also reached

The enemy Red so hurriedly the fringes of the Stalin Line in that he threw down his arms and the Polotsk sector, east of Minsk, equipment,

but all attempts to make headway The communique also speaks of have been shattered.

successful Soviet The most recent of Moscow Reuter. communiques

announces the

complete defeat of the Ruman-

THE DISCUSSIONS WERE DESCRIBED IN LONDON LAST NIGHT AS "A VERY IMPORT- ANT AND ENCOURAGING DEVELOPMENT.”.

that

It was added, however, much remained to be done.

An important phase of the negotiations centres on Polish hands, says a diplomatic correspondent.

soldiers now in Russian

An Interesting suggestion has been made that they should bo re-formed and re-equipped and, acting under the command of the Polish Government, re- sumo their fight against common enemy,

the

Saw M. Mr. Anthony Eden air activity.

Zaleski, the Polish. Foreign Minister, at the Foreign Office last night when Russo-Polish matters relations were among

lan-German divisions in Bessa- BIG REINFÖRCEMENT

Is

rabla, as the result of a lightning counter-stroke which, it claimed, threw them back across tho River Pruth—internation- al News Service.

Fierce Fighting

The Soviet night communique yesterday announced that through- out Tuesday fierce fighting con- tinued in the Ostrov, Polotsk, Novograd-Volynsk and Beltsi set-

tors.

Soviet troops. supported by tanks and aircraft, made a number of powerful; counter-drives ho'd-

Japan is tightening her ing up the enemy advance.--Reu- financial belt.

THE "NEW YORK TIMES." Cabinet yesterday it PRAISING NORWAY. STILL FIGHTING AND TRAINING MEN IN CANADA; SAYS:

Here is a new order different in practice from the abomination Hitlerism would: force upon un unwilling world.

In Norway brute force has al- ready suffered an idealogical de- feat. Never in their history have the Norwegian people been worth- ler of honour than to-day." Reuter.

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Following a meeting of nounced that owing to the "grow [SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"]

situaTM -ing tense international

Point-blank fire from Russian tion," the budget for the next artillery in the Stalin Line forti- financial year 1942/3 will be com-fications near Mogilev destroyed greatest stress an entire Nazi battalion, it was piled "with the laid on the tightening of Japan's claimed in Moscow yesterday. war footing." B

The Nazis have been halted New demands are to be limited dead at all points on the front, it to items ind spensable the was added, the severity of the expectation of national policy fighting on the Mogilev-Podolsk and estimates already approved sector being, stressed. will be reviewed and drastically curtailed-Reuter."

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BOMBS ON MALTA

To Be An chémy alternit on Monday Whitney To Be Released

night: dropped bombs in south Malta without causing damage or casualties, it was officially stated yesterday, says Reuter.

It is here that the Rumanians and Germans are striving to plerce the Stalin Line and advance on Kiev, capital and key railway cẹn- tre of the Ukraine-International News Service.

Smashing Defeat

A Soviet communique broadcast RICHARD WHITNEY FORM-

In over Moscow radio announces that ER PRESIDENT OF THE NEW to 10 years imprisonment

for on the Bassarabian front, German TYORK STOCK EXCHANGE, Sing Sing in April, 1930,

and Rumanian troops were driven WILL BE RELEASED ON grand larceny, 29 PAROLE FROM SING-SING ON When he is set free he will have back in disorder beyond the River AUGUST 11,2%

4 served three and a half years Pruth as the result of Soviet coun-

He was sentenced to from five of his sentence Reuter

ter-attacks.

OF SPRINGBOKS

discussed-Reuter

African force has safely reached The largest contingent of North Africa, according to a South African troops since the Reuter message from Pretoria embarkation of the original East this morning.

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