1941-07-16 — Page 41

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 16, 1941.

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FIERCE BATTLE STILL RAGING Reassuring Moscow Communique

North

Successes In

And South: Panzers Cut Off

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)

FOURTH DAY OF THE TREMENDOUS BATTLE RAGING ON THREE SECTORS OF THE RUSSO-GERMAN FRONT BRINGS A REASSURING MOSCOW HIGH COMMAND COMMUNIQUE, WHICH GIVES A CLEARER PICTURE OF THE MILITARY SITUATION.

According to this communique, the German thrust towards Leningrad in the Psko sector has not merely been brought to a halt, but the main ene ny forces are being hurled back.

In the Vitebsk region, the issue still hangs

in the balance with both sides throwing in all SOVIET

available

losses.

resources and suffering severe

Trend of the operations is indicated in the

PARACHUTE

reference to fighting in the Novograd-Volinsk OPERATIONS

sector. The Russian High Command says that the Red Army is checking the enemy's attempts to penetrate eastward and join his tanks which are in a difficult situation.

be drawn

The inference which may fairly|

is that the grandiose German claims to sensational advances have been based upon | the

of progress

panzer units which probably have broken through at several points on the] long front, but which have not been able to obtain the substan- tial backing of the motorised infantry, following up closely behind, which is the technique of the blitz.

On the northern front, for in-

western directions of the front.

Soviet parachute troops have been dropped in Hungary in order to des- troy railways, states a Budapest despatch to the official Italian news

agency.

"In other directions and see tors of the front no important fighting took place and no sub stantial

changes occurred in The despatch claimed that an the position of the troops.

Soviet attempt by

parachute "Our air force during the night troops to destroy a Hungarian of July 14 bombed mechanised railway line was frustrated by the units of the enemy and raided | "vigilance and energetic action the refineries and oil fields of of Hungarian troops." Ploesti (Rumania)."-Reuter.

Hungarian forces on the Soviet front were stated to be advancing into Podolia, in western Ukraine. despite the lack of roads and the difficulties of the terrain. Reuter.

Vain Endeavours

stance, the Soviet High Com- THE COMMUNIQUE SAYS: mand claims complete victory "IN THE VITEBSK AREA, over the German infantry divi THERE WAS FIERCE FIGHT- sions, and that behind its own

ING ALL DAY LONG AGAINST MOTORISED AND MECHAN- lines, German panzer units are

UNITS WHICH ISED ENEMY being systematically des'roved.

MADE A VAIN ENDEAVOUR ΤΟ PENETRATE TO THE FAST. FICHTING CONTINUPS:

HEAVY

ON LOSSES

Mogilev Claim

The Germans,

meanwhile. WITH

claim a further success on the BOTH SIDES.

central sector, announcing * the "In the Novograd-Volinsk į capture of the "key" Russian direction our troops have been fortress city of Mogilev, south-fighting stubbornly. counteract-

TATTOOING BACK IN FASHION

west of Smolensk. It is claimed ing enemy attempts to penetrate AGAIN

that Mogilev is deep inside the feastwards and Join his tanks Stalin Line and it is asserted that which are in a difficult situation. Tattooists in England are busier the success "will pave the way "Our aircraft on July 15 has than they have been for many for opening a wide corridor to been operating against enemy years, Moscow."

Smolensk itself, says

motorised and mechanised units, The reason is that thousands of Berlin, has destroyed enemy aircraft on men and women goʻng into the is under constant air raid and their aerodromes, and bombed the forces are bringing tattoo marks artillery bombardment. In a, oil district of Ploesti, ware radio broadcast last night, Berlin houses in Sulina and transports declared that "the dissolution of; in the district of Tulcea,

some Russian divisions seems complete. A fort in the Opotchka sector (cast of Ostrav) has been blown up. International News Service.

Soviet Communique

A Soviet communique says fighting continued in the Vitebsk

Riga Incident

"A Soviet destroyer in the Gulf,

back into fashion.

Both men and women are hav- ing their regimental badges tattooed on their arms, there is also a big demand for identifica- tion number markings.

A London tattooist stated that of Riga was attacked by enemy though men still formed the bulk 'planes. AA. fire destroyed and of his clientele, increasing num- brought down two enemy 'planes bers of women were attending and the destroyer came out of daily. the encounter unscathed.

"Soviet trawlers in the Gulf and Novograd-Valinsk directions. of Finland saw an enemy sub- "In Pskov our troops surround- | marine, when crossing a mine- ed enemy motorised troops,, des- | field, destroyed. troying them section by section.

"In an encounter with four

THE MAIN ENEMY FORCES enemy fighters two Soviet. sea- ARE BEING HURLED BACK TO planes brought down two of the THE WEST. AL

enemy aircraft. One Soviet

In Vitebsk there was flerce 'plane was brought-down." fighting all day against mechanis- Reuter.

ed units trying to penetrate to

the cast. Fighting continues with

heavy losses on both sides.

WIEDEMANN SAILS FOR LISBON

"Another idea is to have their on them blood groups tattooed

alr in case they are caught in mids."

SOVIET RAID ON BUCHAREST

ANAIR RAID ON |BUCHAREST ON MONDAY WAS

"In Novograd-Volinsk, our troops are counteracting the enomy'e attempts to penetrate eastwards and Jóln' him 'tanks' which are in a difficult situation. (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL" ANNOUNCED IN AN OFFICIAL

The oil fields at Ploesti, Sulina · APPROXIMATELY 500 AXIS COMMUNIQUE ISSUED and Tulcea, were bombed by CONSULAR ACCENTS WITH THE RUMANIAN-CAPITAL Soviet aircraft. NKORVANT THIR FAMILJES: SAILED STATES A DESPATCH TO THE

"Fifty-two, German 'planes were | FROM - NEW YORK – IN THE OFFICIAL ... ITALIAN destroyed on July 14, Soviet losses | "WEST POINT" FOR LISBON AGENCY. were 24.3+Reuter.

The communique)

Ploesti Bombed

YESTERDAY.

IN

NEWS

reads:

They included Cantain Wied~ "Enemy aircraft dropped a large want former - cmsul-oëneral- in number of incendiary bombson San Francisco, and his narty," who|Bucharest on Monday night" but

A Soviet High Command com- new in three charter transport says that fires started were OK-

ug - broadcast by Moscow'ninned from the Pacife, roast to tinguishedingekuie

..................NEW HANDS

LONELY SOLDIER SENDS LOVE AFTER 24 YEARS

A letter to a "lonely soldier," written by a Los Angeles

woman

in 1917, was discover- ed by a man serving in this war when he unpacked some war material recently.

The woman asked the finder to corres- poned with her.

answered He has the twenty-four-year- old letter.

'GOOD TIME'

WIFE SLAIN

"Sybil has hurt me in every possible way that a woman can hurt a man.'

Jack

HER ONLY HOPE

Only concern of a girl of sixteen who lost both hands and nearly her life-in an air raid is for a chance to take up her |job as a telegraphist.

矗

To do this she will need special pair of artificial hands. These, she believes, could be got from the United States but they would cost £400.

The girl, Jean Stormand, of Sunderland, qualified to be a Civil Service telegraphist just before she was injured a few months ago. She was with father and mother in their shelter during an air raid when a German Nazt 'plane crashed down on them.

All hope of rescuing the family had been given up when they were saved-all badly In. jured,

Jean's mother died, her father seriously injured his feet, and Jean, who was not expected to live. pulled

her through with hands amputated.

She does not want sympathy. That, she says, is for those who "are much worse than I am."

Living For Job

She is the most cheerful girl in This passage from a diary was! Sunderland Infirmary, where she read at Gosport (Hants) recent- is recovering steadily. She had a ly when Donald

Chilvers, happy word for everyone--doc- 30, was charged with the murder tors nurses and patients. Ht Lee-on-Solent of his wifel Mr. Stormond, too, is still in Sybil Ann, 25.

blonde hospital. "Jean had just passed ofce

her examination to join the Civil "Beauty Queen" of Norwich.

Service when the accident hap- pened," he told a reporter.

"She had always

Mr. E. G. Robey. said in the diary was written: "I prosecuting.

wanted this would have forgiven Sybil for job and was just living for when

not she could take it up. everything, but Sybil would have it that way.

"Then everything was smash- ed in a few moments. But she has not let this crush her.

"A good time for herself was

"How the hands she wants will more important to her than any- thing else. I cannot bear to be brought from America I don't think of somebody

£400 making love know. The cost is about to her.

and we have lost everything in our home.

"Only God, Sybil and myself! know what has happened to us He does young people. God. not talk. Sybil is dead, and I myself will soon be dead."

"Jean's legs were injured and her face badly burned, but she has recovered miraculously." All Jean will say is, "While and there's life there's hope, there's plenty of life. in me yet. To his mother he wrote (said It's no use looking on the black counsel): "Sybil has driven me side. I am just hoping for the too far at last.”

best."

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