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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 29, 1941.

GERMANS FIND

EXCUSE IN ARMY'S DISCOMFORT

GERMAN PROPAGANDA, excusing the slow progress on the eastern front continues to emphasise the difficulties the troops are encountering.

Describing conditions on the Russo- Finnish border, the Berlin correspondent of the Berne newspaper "Buid,” says "An end- less column of heavily laden soldiers march gasping and cursing through a nightmare of endless forests.

PHILIPPINES

MILITARY PRECAUTIONS

General Douglas MacArthur conferred with Staff Officers and President Quezon in Manila yesterday.

President Quezon has handed over his presidential yacht to United States Novy for use as о patrol

the

ship. Reuter.

DE GAULLE

"There are no roads, no com-, the landscape and are so well munications, no lorries,

minefield no camouflaged as to be easily over- motor-cycles. Only absolute looked. essentials of equipment are car.. "The ground in front is sown ried, overcoats und blankets be- with mines." ing left behind, though the nights

Describing

an attack on one are terribly cold and damp. such fort, the correspondent says: "The days are frightfully "Russian Are was first opened hot, while millions of mosqui- from a neighbouring farm build- tocs swarm over the labouring|ing so that the Germans thought soldiers' heads.

that the fort was abandoned. "Often the troops inust wade When they approached more knee deep through black swamps. | closely, a murderous blast of These forests provide the best machine-gun fire opened from the cover for the Russians, for the fort itself. Only after German Germans cannot see the enemy. artillery, shooting at a hundred As soon as the Germans enter yards' range, had opened a breach forest they meet with a in the walls of the fort, were the withering fire from Russians who Germans able to enter are in the trees, here, there and |everywhere."'

The

Camouflaged Forts

Another difficulty, the corres- pondent continues, is that "Soviet Torts are constructed as part

HARD HIT BUT SAFE HOME

Although his aircraft! was so severely damaged by anti-aircraft fire, that! both engines eventually! cut out, the captain of one of our heavy bombers' brought it home from Kiel the other night and landed slight casualty

with

"Even then the dangers were not ended as Russian forts are

with numerous

SPEECH AT BEIRUT

"It is right, just and

often constructed in three floors, practical to establish the underground real sovereignty and in- Lebanon

passag 15.

"One Russian

said they had nothing to fear as not only for the sake of

posted outside dependence of

the few surviving Russians were

anxious to surrender. The Ger- Lebanon, but for the mans unsuspecting were met with sake of France herself," a fierce fire inside and only cap- tured the fort after killing every

declared General de Russian defender.” Reuter. Gaulle in a speech at

Beirut yesterday.

Indian

Casualty

Figures

General de Gaulle was address- ing a gathering representative of religious, political, social and economic life in Lebanon, accord- ing to a despatch to the Indepen- dent French News Agency.

The General udded: "Our pre- sence among you means that France will cooperate with you to defend your liberties against those who threatened them.

"*lf for strategic reasons our brave Allies the British, have come here with us, it is to help us tu full our age-old task as we are

INDIAN ARMY CASUALTIES helping and will continue to help only one DURING THE CAMPAIGNS IN them in other territories."-Reu-

AFRICA REPORTED BETWEEN | ter.

among DECEMBER LAST YEAR AND

At Damascus

the crew, writes a Home JULY & THIS YEAR, TOTALLED General de Gaulle arrived at Correspondent.

6,427, OF WHICH 759 WERE Damascus yesterday on his

first KILLED. INCLUDING 21 official visit to the Syrian capital. When the aircraft arrived over OFFICERS, 26 VICEROY'S COM- The population gave him a great the target it was met by flerçe MISSIONED OFFICERS, AND welcome and the city was beflag- anti-aircraft fire and many 712 INDIANS OF

OTHER ged for the occasion.

searchlights. One cone of light RANKS. caught and held the aircraft, but The remaining casualties include the captain kept over the target 40 prisoners of war, 1,216 missing and successfully bombed his, and 4,376 wounded. objective.

A review of the garrison

and various other ceremonies had been arranged to mark the occasion.

General de Gaulle will take the opportunity to confer with the British authorities and the teading Syrian, personalities re-

the garding the setting up of new regime and establishing the Independence of the country.

pected to-day in a message

An important statement is

The proportion of casualties to "Shells were bursting all about the total number of troops engag- us," he said, "We could hear ed in the campaigns was stated to them and we cou d smell them- be "extremely low." the same smell you get on a busy The total wounded contains "a shooting range. Mingling with it very large number" of men who was the smell of petrol when one were only slightly wounded and of the tanks was hit. By diving who either remained on duty or and climbing and making sharp returned to their units long ago. General de Gaulle will be address- turns we managed to escape.

-Reuter.

"At one moment we got into a spin but pulled out, though not before the dinghy, in its box, had fallen eight feet and hit the navi- gator in the back. He also got a knock from his seat as it broke uff.

"After we had got clear we had to use the stars to guide us. We were caught and fired on agata over another town. Later, WD were heavily attacked, from the ground for the third time, but managed to reach the English coast.

"Our troubles were not .over. One engine cut out when our height was 1,800 feet. After a few minutes it started again, and enabled us to c:imb before it splut- tered and died away, altogether. Then our other engine cut out. I Baw trees only 200 feet, ahead, but I was able to avold themaud land. We had one casualty the navigator had a slight cut in the |head,,ATED

"I found that most of our star- board flap, had been shot away. As a souvenir I have kept a pleca of it just a bundle of fabric which "the "wind had 'tled. eighteen knots"

into

Ing to the Syrians.-Reuter,

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