1941-07-21 — Page 10

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 21-1941.

FOUR WEEKS OF FIGHTING "Times" Correspondent Analyses Campaign

JAPANESE WAR LOSSES

Japanese losses in China during the past four years of war totalled some 1,600,- 000 men and officers, it was revealed by o high ranking Japan- ese officer on July 7 ot о memorial ser- vice for war dead held ot Wonchuan, in southern Shansi, com- memorating the war anniversary. tral News.

Cen-

Germans

Still Short Of Decision

"ONE OF THE GREATEST CAMPAIGNS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF WARFARE HAS NOW COME TO THE END OF ITS FOURTH WEEK," SAID CAPTAIN FALLS, MILITARY CORRESPONDENT OF “THE TIMES,” BROAD- CASTING FROM LONDON AND DISCUSSING HOW MUCH THE RUSSIANS HAVE ACHIEV- ED UP TO THE PRESENT IN THEIR RESIST- ANCE AGAINST THE GERMANS.

"There are many pessimists in this coun- try and though they are people who want to see the Russians do well, they feel that the

Ranting By enemy ought to have gained some success by

Gayda

this time.

"They knew of Germany's strength in planes and armaments and they also knew that the Rus- sians possess a large number of tanks and as many aircraft, at least, as the Germans could bring against them. They also know that the Russians have made a deep study of mechanised war and

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"

Virginoa Gayda, Mussolini's spokesman, yesterday termed the American black-list of pro-Axis individuals and firms a "during and perhaps rash" plan.

Guyda declared the move was yet they fear that a worse state Another step towards

of affairs International News Service.

pass.

war.

INNER CABINET

would have

come to

"Their fears were not unreason- able, because Germany's military machine has so often, proved its PREDICTED

efficiency and one has to take all this into account and also the fact (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] of the experience which the Ger- Further important Government, mans have secured in their battles changes, including the creation of, and conquests. That enables mis- an Inner Cabinet for war produc- takes of the past to be avoided, tion, were predicted yesterday by new artifices to be perfected and the London "Sunday Despatch.". administration and maintenance International News Service. to be brought to the highest pitch.

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"Above all, it has produced confidence in the whole me. chanism which fortififies the Soldier in battle and incidental- ly, these same people think that

STOP PRESS

though Russian leadership and the tremendous tank battles rag- material is excellent, leadership much better.

and materjaj

sectors north German ing on these

are south of the Pripet Marshes.

they are lost it would immediate-

military po Itical and

the

and If

the

"I am far from saying that ly increase the difficulty of keep-| these arguments were not without ing ground. I wish I could say that machines. working well, but the sting has already been taken campaign is not going to be lost out of the German attack-but I as long as the Russians can keep decidedly do not. What I do feel these machinęs working. is that if the campaign, after "I am sorry if I have been a bit nearly a month, is measured by vague in this talk to-day and that the standards of

I have only spoken of generali- blitzkrieg a which imposes a heavy strain on ties," said Capt. Falls. the attacker and the defender, the tunately, we have nothing like the upon that we have enemy is still short of a decision. details to go

had in other campaigns, so we must

news, stick to the latest which is not in my province or to certain considerations.

No Dunkirk

"Unfor-

Nazis Surprised "Apart from taking prisoners and destroying large quantities of material, he has had no oppor- tunity of putting his objectives into great peril. He has not taken

"I am not going to tell you that from the Russian army its fight-the Germans are going to get ing power, still less destroyed it. themselves inextricably buried in It seems

Russia, to me that so far the the vast open p aces of Germans have et scarcely

ac but what I do want to emphasise hieved enough success to repay is that this is a campaign in which them for their tremendous efforts. there is no means of victory ex- I cannot resist the belief - you cept by completely crushing may call it a hunch if you like enemy. that they have been terribly sur-

"SÓ LONG AS THE RUSSIANS prised by the determination of the FIGHT AND GO ON FIGHTING, Russians.

THERE WILL BE NO VICTORY

the

"One of the most serious Ger-FOR THE GERMANS. THERE IS GOING TO BE NO GETTING in Ankle and Full length cognised by the Russians and they A SALONIKA OR AN ATHENS man threats has been fully re- THROUGH TO A DUNKIRK OR

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made powerful counter-attacks on Tuesday in the

course of

VICTORY MUST BE WON

which heavy losses were inflicted | THE OPEN SPACES.”

on German armoured and motor- ised forces.

"I am, of course, talking of the sector from Esthonia in the direction of Leningrad.

Bure

Acute Threat

"This threat is all the more acute because the Finns in the{ north are exercising their pres- |

on the Karellan lathmus. You might say that Leningrad is only a secondary objective, but, as I tread the situation, its significance is ao important." "Kronstadt is. the base of the Russian Baltic Fleet," continued Capt. Falls.

"Their other bases in Finland are closely beleaguered, and it is not certain that the Russians even still hold them. The Russian Fleet is strong enough, to be mis- tress of the Baltic.

"If it can be put out of action by the capture of Leningrad, the Baltic will become a German lake, This may also affect the land fighting, because the enemy will be able to supply his forces better than he is doing now. He might then be able to go straight on. with his drive to Moscow.

Tank Battles

"That is a very great danger which the Ruzalana, "have fully recognised and which they have taken steps to meet, but which they have not succeeded in dissipating.

"In other directions, there is little to be said. You have all W read and heard on the redio of |

BIRTH

ON

KADOORIE-On July 19, 1941, to Muriel, wife of Lawrence Kadoorie, at the War Memor- ial Hospital, a son.

DEATH

a

Manila Observatory at 10.25 a.m. to-day reported

of the typhoon south-west Bonin Islands, direction un- known.

COATES—At St. Teresa's Hospital

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