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TENACIOUS RESISTANCE Moscow Claims Offensive Held

Successful Defence HITLER'S

On All Sectors

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 ports now taking place is not due to the American occupation of Iceland.

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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 Nazi OUS RESISTANCE ON THE PART OF MILLIONS OF RUSSIAN 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- day), Russian guerilla fighters are “exter- reasing what has been on for minating whole groups and units of German

troops" behind the German lines.

Actually this latter event be ng used as a pretext for mak- ing these facts publie and in-

for a long time past.

It is well known that every effort is being put forward to

worthy.

The latest Soviet communique intimates make ships in these porta sea- the Nazis are now hurling themselves against the powerful bastions of the Stalin Line, 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.

SPARE PARTS HAVE BEEN SENT AND RELEASED FOR THE PUR-

SION ARISE.--REUTER.

RED ARMIES STILL HOLDING TALLINN

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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 Rumanjan port.

Moscow claims the successful repulsing of the German offen-!| elve 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 is myth which the Red Army will know how to dispel, M. Averi

Nazi Boasts

German claims become more

Other Swedish reports state that Finn heavy artillery is steadily bombarding Russian forts at 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 Helsinki reports admit Tallinn that the Red armies have been radio is still in Russian hands. "flung into broken retreat" on all The station broadcasting fronts, Nazi propagandists speak Russian programmes, concen-of the "German legions advancing trating

the "herolem on

of like

a multi-headed avalanche" Estonian guerilla fighters.”

towards Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev after capturing Vitebsk "for- tresse

Reports received in Stockholm last night say the Nazis on the 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 divisions are breaking up under. German › hämmer" blows by air and land,” It Is dtalmed. The Germans claim that Rus- ['sia's whole western rail · system "Embittered fighting" is raging has been destroved by the Lurt- the in the marshes 100 miles from waffe and that "It is Impossible for Leningrad, It is added Inter- the Soviets to undertake any Moscow radio commenta national News Service.

major counter-offensive." tor, declared in a broad--- cast last night.

German Wistful Thinking

B

U.S.S.R., Hitler has managed to spid: "Hitler's success in secure certain advantages, but he

Berlin circles try to interpret the present war have so for he has miscalculated his forces.

the official communiques duo to numerical, and technical superiority. They do not imply "ACCORDING TO AN OLD meaning that "the backbone", of:

QUOTE SAYING, WHOM THE GODS|011. Russian resistance has been Invincibility.

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, á AND HIS HENCHMEN HAVE The Berlin radio last night com- crushing defeat.

ME LOST THE LAST VESTIGES OFpared the piercing of the Stalin In't the faght » Aguldet), the HUMAN FPASON/REUTER. "(Continuad' on! Pago:10)|

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 been placed at his

163rd Division" had

disposal,

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

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attack on Russia broadcast by Moscow Radio last night.

Quoting well-informed circles, the announcer sald: "Goering argued that after German air losses in the west, in the Balkan campaign, and in Crete, the Luft- waffe was unfit 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 mir force.

of Goering's "Disappearance name from the German press tends to prove the veracity of thus 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 disturbance is reported south of the Bonin Islands, mov- ing north,

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

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