1941-07-11 — Page 10

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 11, 1941:

MOSCOW REMAINS BUOYANT

Uninterruptedly

Battle Rages Ground Regained In Counter-Thrusts

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"

AFTER NEARLY 48 HOURS OF THE MOST BITTER CLOSE QUARTER FIGHTING OF THE NINETEEN DAYS' WAR BE- TWEEN RUSSIA AND GERMANY, NOTHING HAS OCCURRED! TO SHAKE MOSCO W'S ATMOSPHERE OF BUOYANT CON- FIDENCE.

At the key-points of the German thrusts, Ostrov, Polotsk and Novograd-Volinsk, the Nazis have thrown in armoured units and infantry divisions to maintain a pressure per- mitting of no respite to the Red Army, and have put out flamboyant claims of gaps carv- ed in the Stalin Line.

All reports confirm that the force of the Nazi drive is being kept up in complete dis regard of appalling losses in material.

men

and

has

material In world history been captured," according 10 a special German High Command communique issued last night.

Ukraine

CHIEF OF

SIEMENS PASSES

The death of Carl Friedrich von Siemens, chief of the Siemens Works, at the age of 68, was announced by the official German news agency yester- day. He Was the youngest son of the founder of the firm, Werner von Siemens.

-Reuter.

"A total of 323,818 prisoners, Including several generals and divis.onal commanders fell into our hands, and 3,332 tanks and #00000 1,809 guns as well as an in- numerable quantity of other war material, were captured.

"Thus the total number of pri- soners has been increased to over 400,000.

"Material captured or destroy- ed includes 7,015 tanks and 4,432 guns.

The Soviet Air Force has up to now lust 8,233 planes."-Reu- Russo

ter.

given the President "good news" of the progress of the German fighting.

In Moscow, it is clained that Russian counter-attacks have roll- ed back the Nazi troops from ground gained on the three malor Red air fleets, meanwhile. are fronts, but it is admitted that the continuing to range far and wide Germans have not abandoned over Rumania, adding to the des- their violent efforts to through.

break truction of Ploesti and other major oil centres as well as Constanza

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it la believed, however. that and Tulcea, on the Danube Delta, the situation is becoming in and Sulina, north of Constanza, on oreasingly favourable to the the Black Sea--International Soviet Union, and it may be re- garded as significant that, fol- lowing a tak with President Roosevelt yesterday, the Soviet Ambassador to the United Statea, M. Oumansky, was ablel double battle of Bialystok and to tell the Press that he had' Minsk the greatest amount of war

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Scorched Earth

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Fulfilling Stalin scorched earth policy the Russians in the Ukraine are destroying as much as possible and have part- ly succeeded, says the correspondent of the Helsinki "Sanomat” with the German troops in the Ukraine.

The Russians are specially con- centrating on rendering useless gas and water services and elec- tric communication,

Not all grain stocks were des- troyed because some were still green.

Alt signs point to sanguinary fighting having taken place, and German soldiers contirm re- ports of the Russian soldiers' bravery.

The correspondent, who was a member of a party of 10 for- eign journalists who made the Journey, says the Germans were surprised by the quality_of_the Russian armoured cn13-Router.

munique gives no details of re-shook the south coast of STOP. PRESS cent fighting on the Russian front, England from midnight

2 Soviet communique broadcast

swarms

of

at midday yesterday gives a full to dawn as account of the position on each R.A.F. bombers roared of the various fronts.

The communique shows that all

German attempts to break through to Leningrad, Moscow or Kiev are still being frustrated.

Text of the Russian communi-

que is as follows:--

"During the day of the 9th and a night between the 9th/10th large scale fighting continued in the directions of Polotsk and Novo- grad-Volynsk.

over the Channel giving| the German-occupied coast one of the heaviest pastings of the war.

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British fighters maintained constant patrol over the Straits of Dover in view of the excellent flying conditions for the Luftwafie.

British bombers wrecked six!

Eleven cases of cholera, five four from from Kowloon, rural

two Hong Kong and from the New Territories, "48 · cases of tuberculosis, nine of enteric dysentery, four fever, and two each of men- ingitis and diphtheria, were notified to the Health Authori- ties yesterday.

of

Mr. Ralph Ingersoll, Editor of newspaper P.M., left Washington by 'plane yes- San Francisco on a terday for

tour to inter- round-the-world view Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek, M. Stalin and Mr. Winston Churchill,

"In the Ostrov direction our ship in Cherbourg and Le Havre the New York troops repelled all attacks by the in a series of daylight raids in which 14 Nazi fighters were shot enemy with great losses to him.

direction down. Shipping hit totals more stubborn fighting continued, than 30,000 tons.--International our troops carrying out resolute News Service, counter-attacks.

"In the Polotsk

"In fighting in the Lepel direc- tion our troops destroved motorised division of German troops, up to 40 guns and a great quantity of transport and special vehicles.

"In the direction of Borisov our

units inflicted a serious defeat on one of the enemy divisions

"In the direction of Bobruiski our troops are firmly holding occupied positions.

"In the direction of Novograd- Volynsk our troops are checking the advance of large enemy forces.

Checking Advance

"In the Bessarabian sector of the the front the offensive of enemy is meeting with strong resistance on the part of our

troops.

"In other sectors of the front there were no large scale fighting operations.

"Our air force destroyed up to 100 enemy tanks during the sec- ond half of the day of the 9th and continued fighting operations against enemy troops in: the direction of Ostrov and Novo- grad-Volynsk during the night British between the 9th/10th.". Wireless.

DE GAULLE NOW IN BRAZZAVILLE

General de Gaulle has arrived at Brazzavile, French Congo, ne- cording to Brazzaville radio. The General is broadcasting to France to-day at 8 p.m. (G.M.T.)-Reu- ter:

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MINISTER

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attack Russia to remove any threat to her rear and then pro- ceed south against the Southern Pacific.

Mr. Ingersoll

the will board Clipper for Singapore, expecting to arrive in Chungking via Ran- goon on July 28. After a week's stay. Mr. Ingersoll will proceed to Moscow where he has been promised an interview with M. Stalin. From Moscow he will go to London to interview Mr. Chur- United chill. returning to the States in October.

Interviewed

By then, Axis influence may Mr. Ingersoll called on Presi- possibly be extended from the dent Roosevelt last Tuesday and with Dr. Laughlin north of Alaska and to the south conferred

Administrative Assistant of the Southern Pacific, threaten- Currie, ing Anglo-American, possessions. to President Roosevelt, regarding

The spokesman urged joint, his tour. action on the part of China, the

Central by the Washington corresponderrt United Stafes, Great Britain and News Russia to check Japan.

prior to his departure, Mr. Inger- Britain has He said that the transfers in soll said that since

the

at the Command, Japanese

Germans in stopped which General Itagaki is the new English Channel and China has commander of the Korean garri-halted the Japanese in the moun- son, plus the Imperial Conference, tainous regions in the interior; it indicated that. Japan was poised is the United States duty to ex-

on Russia first, tend immediate effective aid for an attack and that was why joint democra-, both Britain and China to bring. tic action was necessary-Inter- defeat to the aggress

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