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NAZIS DRIVEN BACK 19 MILES

Panzer

SOVIET MINES

Laid In Area

Attack At A Standstill

HITLER WOULD LIKE TO MEET

HESS AGAIN

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A German proposal, made through the

OffKamchatka United States, to ex-

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With the observation: "It does not appear plea- sant to us," the official Japanese spokesman in Tokyo yesterday revealed the Russian mining of the sea off Kamchatka.

HE SAID JAPAN HAD BEEN ADVISED OFFICIALLY OF THE MINING OF SPECIFIED WATERS, WHICH WERE NOW DANGEROUS TO SHIPPING.

Moscow explains the necessity

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change Rudolf Hess for Sir Lancelot Oli- phant, former British envoy to Belgium, now held in Germany, was rejected by the For- eign Office.

It is stated Britain "would not exchange Hess for anyone. International News Service.

Red Central Army Opens Major Offensive

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WHILE THE NAZIS CONTINUE TO ISSUE FANTASTIC AND COMPLETELY UNCONFIRMED CLAIMS OF FURTHER SUC- CESSES AGAINST THE RUSSIAN ARMIES, MOSCOW, IN AN OFFICIAL HIGH COMMAND_COMMUNIQUE, ANNOUNCES THAT THE RED CENTRAL ARMY HAS OPENED A MAJOR OF- FENSIVE.

The counter-attack, which was launched after the Nazi panzers had been brought to a standstill, mainly owing to the Red Air

of mining owing to the possible 000000000000000000 Force, which has been attacking the mechan-

presence of German raiders

the Siberian coast.

off

The Japanese spokesman commented: "I cannot Imagine any sort of German warship

in the Sea of Japan."

SISAL HEMP FOR

CAMOUFLAGE

The Madras Presidency has be- Asked to comment on the gun to manufacture camouflage status of the Russo-Japanese nets from sisal hemp, which will

ised and armoured columns ceaselessly, is reported to have pushed the enemy back 19 miles in the Rogachev sector.

Meanwhile heavy fighting is continuing

Neutrality Pact, the spokesman not only meet an essential war on the Leningrad front and on the battle-

said: "It still stands."Interna- need but will also help growers tional News Service.

of the fibre.-Reuter.

HUNTING

NYE GOES

NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE

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SENATOR GERALD NYE, member of the Foreign Relations Committee, declared in Washington yesterday that the official silence towards the Far East situation 1 "indi cates the Administration has reached secret n non-aggression understanding with Japan.

Senator Nye asserted the Administration was concentrating on obtaining bases in the Atlantic and seemed to have forgotten the

ground between Vitebsk and Mogilev, where the Germans are trying to resume the drive against Moscow.

Berlin quarters claim the Rus- Berlin claims that on the north- sian counter-offensive has failed ern front the German and Finnish between Zhitomir and Berd ch....

in the Ukraine, resulting in the forces "surrounded and annihilat- "almost complete annihilation" ed" two Russian battalions.

of the Russian forces "trying to International News Service. break out of the German iron ring and flee to the westward."

The German High Command also alleges that desperate Rus- sian counter-attacks to rollove Kiev have been repulsed "with heavy losstë, after the panzera threatened to encircle Klov.

Fleets Of Tanks

The Germans admit that "fleets"

of Russian tanks were thrown into vance, and that a fierce battle

battle against the German ad-

has been raging since Sunday.

Hundreds of tanks have been destroyed, it is stated in Berlin,

The Ruslana on this front aro said to be using glant 70-ton mechanical monstere, carrying 6-Inch guna.

Japanese

Pacific, leading to the conclusion that the "Warning"

Administration has lost its fear of Japan.

Secret diplomatie conversa- tions, Senator Nye alleged, have resulted in an agreement that the status quo be maintained as long as possible."_e"

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Bluntly warning that Britain.

Vetrange that the Administra- tion

nald koopa allenco,” and ho would like to know. If Bri- tain has a bearing on, the pro- and the United States may incite Bent Far East, poslov. Soviet Russia, the "Tairiku Shim

HE POINTED TO AMERICAN Earlier, Senator Burton K. po," Japanese army mouthpiece SHIPMENTS OF OIL AND Wheelor bad claimed that Mr. in Shanghai, advocated that Japan OTHER COMMODITIES TO Churchill was now dictating does not forget to take precautions JAPAN DESCRIBING THESE American foreign policy, saying on the northern front. AS A FURTHER INDICATION The State Department might The paper expressed the opinion. THAT AN AGREEMENT HAS just as well operate from Lon- that the Anglo-Soviet Pact in uso- BEEN REACHED.?

don,International News Ser-less practically.

News Service;

Banaton Nyug, anld it was vice.

International

EARLY GERMAN RUPTURE WITH

U.S. PREDICTED

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`Berlin is expected to break off diplomatic relations with the United States within 48 hours, the London "Daily Express” re- ported from Stock- holm yesterday. International News Service.

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