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BLITZ HELD AT ALL POINTS Triple-Pronged Attack Checked

Soviet Dispels A Myth

a

German invincibility is

myth which

the Red

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

He said: "Hitler's success in the present war have so far been due to numerical and technical

Boastful German

RUSSIANS

Claims Continue DISCERN.

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

A SNARE

MILITARY Soviet Russia has re-

THE HIGH COMMAND, DECLARING THAT ACTIVITY ALONG THE ENTIRE FRONT HAS BEEN "UN-fused to apply the rules of IMPORTANT” EXCEPT FOR THE COMPLETE ANNIHILATION the Hague Convention to large vessels OF A GERMAN MECHANISED REGIMENT ON THE SOUTH- several

which the Germans an- WESTERN FRONT, REITERATES EARLIER STATEMENTS THAT nounced their intention THE NEW GERMAN BLITZ ON THE STALIN LINE IS BEING of using as hospital ships

in the Baltic. HELD AT ALL POINTS.

There is no corroboration from any quar- superiority. They do not imply ter in Moscow of the Berlin claim to have

invincibility.

not invincible, while in the last

crushing defeat.

"Even Frederick the Great was pierced the Stalin Line and all Russian World War, Germany suffered a sources insist the Red Army is holding the the German triple-pronged attack in the direc- secure certain advantages, but he tion of Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev.

"In the fight against U.S.S.R., Hitler has managed

has -miscalculated his forces.

"ACCORDING TO

to

AN OLD

Berlin continues to put forward claims SAYING WHOM THE GODS which are not substantiated from any other

·WOULD DESTROY, THEY FIRST

AND HIS HENCHMEN

HAVE

DRIVE MAD-AND HITLER Source, and the latest is that German LOST THE LAST VESTIGES OF mechanised units have reached the out- HUMAN REASON."--REUTER. skirts of Kiev.

TOKYO CANARD DENIED

a

GERMAN MILITARY CIRCLES

STALIN LINE.

Budapest Claims

The panzer forces, the CLAIM THAT ADVANCED NAZI Germans say, are rolling UNITS ARE APPROXIMATELY eastward from Lake 100 KILOMETRES BEHIND THE Peipus, in Estonia, in drive on Leningrad, and (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") ACCORDING

A ΤΟ NEW Nazi propagandists claim YORK SOURCE, THE B.B.C. HAS DENIED REPORTS OF A BRI that the road to Moscow been cleared of TISH ALLIANCE WITH CHINA, has CLAIMING THESE TO BE JA-|

obstacles. PANESE. INSPIRED.

The B.B.C. said that the rum- our was an effort to stir up anti- British feeling in the Far East, International News Service.

state that Budapest reports

the Hungarian troops "pursuing enemy" took some prisoners and shot down five Russian planes.

It is reported that General An- tonescu, the Rumanian Premier,

The advance, they say, was

up after the break bas left for Bucharest and it is "speeded through at Vitebsk and the wet alleged that parts of Besarabia zone' was passed,

RED ARMIES STILL HOLDING TALLINN

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL) DESPATCHES REACHING Sweden re- port a great fire in Leningrad caused by Nazi bombers the n manufacturing districts are said to have been heavily hit.

Other Swedish reports state that Leningrad, it is added. Finn heavy artillery is steadily national News Sérvice. bombarding Russian fortsat

Hangoo, where the Red Army's altuation is "becoming critical"

Helsinki reports admit Tallinn radio la still In Ruselan hands.. The station is broadcasting: #Ruselen programmes, concen-

re-

and Bukovina have been occupied by German and Ruman- News ian troops. International Service.

NATURAL AND LOGICAL

[SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"]

SENATOR GEORGE, CHAIR- FOR- MAN OF THE SENATE

EIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE,

|DISCOUNTED REPORTS. THAT

THE RUSSO BRITISH "NO SE-

PARATE PEACE TREATY" IN- | DICATED THAT EITHER.COUN Inter-TRY WAS CONSIDERING AN

'ARMISTICE WITH GERMANY.

The State Department has not | commented on the situation, while Senator George continued that the pact was a "natural and logi cal development." - International News Service.

Syria Truce Terms

dependence for Syrla.and Leban-

on

General Sir Henry Maitland

Catrous; [ Wilson and Generod Free Trench Commander- In-Chief in Syria, drew up, the

trating on the "horolam of [SPECIAL TO "CHINA, MAILY) Estonian guerilla fighters. AIT :18 BELIEVED IN JERUSA Reports received in Stockholm LEM THAT THE TERMS OF THE Tast night, say the Nazis on the AGREEMENT ENDING THE BY northern front have reached the RIAN WAR WILL BE ANNOUN- Estonian town of Narva, on the CED SOON.. vital Tallinn-Leningrad railway. Narva, is about 160 miles from It is understood that the British armiste Sus wie uneral Leningradze terms include the demobilisation Denz'a emissary, Gencral de Ver- "Embittered fighting" Is raging of the Vichy forces in the Levant dillac-International News Ser fitum marshes. 100 miles from, and assurances for post-war in- /vicc.

BELLOWS BLOW IN TOTALS $25,000

The Fellowship of the Bellows, it was an- nounced this morning, has blown in with an- other $5,000 for the "South China Morning Post" Bomber Fund.

This further sum Bellows' brings the total contribution to the Bomber Fund to $25,000.

Bulgarian M. Stamenov, the Minister now is Moscow, acting on behalf of the Reich Government, informed the Soviets of the Ger- man intention in à Note last week, says the official Sovjet news agency.

M. Molotov, in reply, inform- ed M. Stamenov that "in view of'. the established fact of violation by Germany of international treaties and agreements, the Soviet Government "could not believe that Germany would really ob-

of the Hague serve the rules Convention.**

M. Molotov continued that Sovlet Government had protest- ed against the bombardment of, Soviet hospitals by German troops, contrary to the elemen- tary principles of International Law,

The Soviet Government had every reason to suspect that Ger- many would not observe the Hague Convention and would use hospital ships for military, "pur- poses, therefore Soviet Russia could not agree to apply to hospl- tal ships the rules of the Hague 04] Convention. — Reuter..

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