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TENACIOUS RESISTANCE

Moscow Claims Offensive Held

GETTING READY IN AFRICA

It is understood in Lisbon on excellent authority that the rein- forcement of the defences of Dakar and other Vichy African parts now taking the place is not due to American occupation of Iceland.

Actually this latter

event

is

Successful Defence HITLER'S

On All Sectors

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FIT OF TANTRUMS

THE NEW GERMAN OFFENSIVE AIMED AT MOSCOW,

Reports of a quarrel LENINGRAD AND KIEV, DESCRIBED BY SOVIET MILITARY between Hitler and Goer- QUARTERS AS “TREMENDOUS,” IS BEING HELD BY TENACI-ing on the eve of the Naziť OUS RESISTANCE ON THE PART OF MILLIONS OF RUSSIAN attack TROOPS, IT WAS OFFICIALLY CLAIMED IN MOSCOW LAST NIGHT.

While the Red Air Force is stated to be continuing its successful operations (at least 102 Nazi 'planes being shot down on Satur- "exter- being used as a pretext for mak-day), Russian guerilla fighters are creasing what has been on foot minating whole groups and units of German

It is well known that every troops" behind the German lines.

ing these facts public and in-

for a long time past.

effort is being put forward to

Worthy.

SPARE PARTS HAVE BEEN

The latest Soviet communique intimates make ships in these ports sea the Nazis are now hurling themselves against the powerful bastions of the Stalin Line, and SENT AND MANY SAILORS violent fighting is taking place in the key POSE OF FORMING SKELETON areas of Pskov, Vitebsk and Novograd- CREWS SHOULD THE OCCA- Volinsk.

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RED ARMIES STILL HOLDING TALLINN

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA -MAIL"?)- DESPATCHES REACHING® Sweden^re-

The new Nazi assaults, launch- ed after a three-day halt, "caused no important change at the front," it is claimed in Moscow.

Red 'planes, in addition to sup- porting the front line forces, also raided Constanza, the Rumanian port.

Moscow otaima the successful repulsing of the German offeñ-} dive on all sectors of the ̈ 1,800; mile front.

Over 700 German officers and men, it is stated, were killed in one encounter on the Bessarabian front, and in another sector on

officers and men were left on the field after a stiff fight.

port a great fire in Leningrad caused by Nazi this front 1,215 bodies of German bombers; the manufacturing districts are said to have been heavily hit.

Soviet Dispels A Myth

German invincibility/

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myth which the Red Army will know how to dispel, M. Averin, the Moscow radio commenta tor, declared in a broad- cast last night:

Other Swedish. reports state that Finn heavy artillery is steadily

forta bombarding Russian

at

Nazi Boasts

German claims become more and more boastful, and in Berlin,

Hangoe, where the Red Army's where it is alleged that a "shat. situation is "becoming critical."

tering penetration", of the entire Stalin Line, has taken place and that the Red armies have been

in

"

Helsinki reporta admit Tallinn radio is still in"Russian hands. "flung into broken retreat" on all The station

fronts, Nazi propagandists speak broadcasting Russian programmes,

concen- of the "German legions advancing trating on the "heroism of like a multi-headed avalanche" towards Moscow, Leningrad and Estonian guerilla fightera."

Klev after capturing Vitebsk-for- Reports received in Stockholm tress,

the last night say the Nazis on northern front have reached the Estonian town of Narva, on the vital Tallinn-Leningrad railway. Narva is about 100 miles from Leningrad.

Numerous Red Army corps and divisionu are breaking up under German hammer" blowa

by air and land," it is claimed. The Germans claim that Rus- sin's whole western rail system "Embittered: fighting" is raging has been destroved by the Luft- in the marshes 100 miles from waffe and that "it is Impossible for Leningrad, It is added. Inter- the Soviets to undertake any national News Service.

major counter-offensive."

U.S.S.R., Hitler has managed to secure certain advantages, but he

German Wishful Thinking

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NAZI DIVISION AT DISPOSAL OF MANNERHEIM

Field-Marshal Man- nerheim, Finnish Com- mander-in-chief, revealed in an order of the day to his troops, broadcast last night by the Finnish Radio, that "the ex-

perienced German

163rd Division" had

been placed at his

disposal.

The Division, the order stated, is com- manded by General Engelbrecht. Reuter. 000000000000

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on Russia were. by Moscow Radio last night.

broadcast

Quoting well-informed circles, the

"Goering announcer said:

German air argued that after

lasses in the west, in the Balkan campaign and in Crete, the Luft- - waffe was unfft for a new cam- paign

"Goering refused to take the responsibility for this new drive.

"Hitler became frenzied, call- ed Goering' a coward and de- clared that he himself wou'd take over command of the 'Ger- man air force.

"Disappearance of Goering's name from the German press tends to prove the veracity of this re- port. It is rumoured too that Himmler insisted on Goering, be ing put into a concentration camp."-Reuter,

TYPHOON WARNINGS

Two typhoon warnings were issued by Manila Observatory at 3.15 yesterday afternoon.

The first disturbanceds reported South of the Bonin Islands, mov- ing north.

The second typhoon is south of Naha moving north cast or north-east-

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He said: "Hitler'e success the present war have so far been has miscalculated his forces.. the official communiques: due to numerical and technical uperiority. They do not imply "ACCORDING TO AN OLD meaning that "the backbone' Invincibility.

SAYING, WHOM THE GODS all Russian resistance has been "Even Frederick the Great was WOULD DESTROY, THEY FIRST broken" and optimistically predict. not invincible, while in the last DRIVE MAD—AND HITLER an "early Nazi victory." World War Germany suffered a¦ AND HIS HENCHMEN HAVE crushing defeat.

The Berlin radio last night com- LOST THE LAST VESTIGES OF pared the piercing of the Stalin

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