1941-08-11 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 11, 1941.

THAI RELIEF AFTER A CRITICAL FORTNIGHT

But Not Yet Out

Of The Wood

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PLANS THE STRICT- EST ENFORCEMENT OF THE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST JAPAN AS LONG AS THERE IS REASON TO BELIEVE TOKYO IS CONTEMPLATING FURTHER AGGRESSION, ESPECIALLY IN THAILAND, IT WAS LEARNED IN WASHINGTON LAST NIGHT.

No licences have been granted for the im-

Rumanians

Suffer

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

ACCORDING TO A LONDON MESSAGE, QUOTING AN AN- KARA REPORT, 30,000 HUM- ANIAN SOLDIERS WERÈ KILL- ED AND 100,000 WOUNDED IN THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN.— INTERNATIONAL NEWS SER-

VICE.

victories already won did not mean that a decision had been reached in these extensive operations.'

German

port of silk, it is understood, and few, if any. GERMANY'S "In the far north the

will be unless there is a lessening of the ten-

sion in the Pacific. The resumption of CLAIMS "(peace trade" will be considered if the Jap- anese refrain from attacking Thailand.

The U.S. Government's position is that the Japanese will not be permitted to use the benefits of American trade for the purpose of strengthening their military machine.

Greatest fear

Is that the Japanese will attack Singapore ns a vital step in Axis control of the Bea, which President Roosevelt is committed to prevent.

It is believed in Washington that if the United States, Britain.} China and the Dutch East Indies stand together in the Pacific, there is a good chance that the Japanese will hesitate to risk a conflict, and war muy be avoided. --- Interna- tional News Service.

MODIFIED

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shipped to Finland from Narvik,

attacked a Russian unit and was

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and Finnish troops do not ap- pear to be making much pro- gress. A communique issued by the Finnish High Command In Helsinki yesterday made vague claims of the encirclement of Soviet troops and the driving of lines wedges into the Russian without mentioning a single place

name.

MEANWHILE SOVIET

used with heavy losses from GUERILLAS IT IS OFFICIALLY artillery and machine-gun fire ANNOUNCED IN MOSCOW, ARE CONTINUING TO WORK IN and then was surrounded.

Many German soldiers, it says, THE GERMAN REAR, SOME OF Typically shrewd unofficial}

ARE OPERATING AS Thai comment la "True we have lake to swim to

trying to escape Jumped into the; THEM

the

BACK AS LWOW. IN opposite FAR just been through a hell of a

shore but were

OVER 250 all POLAND, practically

MILES bad time but it also served to drowned Dr shot by Russian BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES.

snipers. The remainder surren- course we know we are not yet dered in large groups. out of the wood."

show who our friends are,

Of

Fatal War

MEANWHILE IN ADELAIDE, DEVELOPMENTS WHICH A number of prisoners ad- WAS dressed a letter to their comrades of the 63rd Division urging then

The letter says; to surrender.

BROOKED NO DELAY"

THE REASON GIVEN BY THE AUSTRALIAN PREMIER. MR.

Not Yet Out Of Wood MENZIES FOR THE CANCEL

After a most critical fortnightLATION OF HIS TOUR OF AUS- members of the Thai Cabinet and TRALIA AND HIS DECISION TO diplomats in Bangkok are for the RETURN IMMEDIATELY ΤΟ Arst time sitting back, mopping! MELBOURNE FOR THE FULL their brows, collecting their MEETING OF THE CABINET thoughts and sorting them out. CALLED FOR NOON.

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"We were thrown from Nor- way into a senseless and fatal war for us against Soviet Rus sia to the northern forests and marshes. We do not wish to die to enable Mannerheim and his accomplices to acquire the Karelian colonies.

"The Finnish people hate us, the Russian people meet us with deadly fire. Hitler will perish. It is no use binding your destinies doomed with the destinies of a

Finnish Claims

The cutting off of several Russian divisions is claimed in a Finnish communique.

It says: "The enemy's fortified positions were broken

through and wedges driven as

Lake Ladoga. Several divisions were cut off.

far as enemy

"There have been great enemy losses of

men and material owing to obstinate re- sistance."

The communique adds that encirclement completion of the and destruction of the enemy is

continuing but it does not men-İ tion a single place.

Soviet Communique

adventurer, You have an oppor tunity of saving your lives for your families, and liberating Ger- issued by the many."

MODIFICATION OF CLAIMS

Following their

The following communique was Soviet Informa- tion Bureau at 10.30 last night:

"In the course of August 10, our troops continued fighting stub- bornly against the enemy in the directions of Solsti, Kholm, Smolensk, Byelaya-Tserkov and Uman.

"Our air force, in cooperation with the land forces, inflicted blows on the enemy panzer troops| recent and infantry. On August 9, our air force brought down 45 Ger- man, aircraft and lost 25 of our own aircraft.

claims of great military successes against the Russians in the Ukraine, According to precise data now available, during the German the Nazis yesterday fell raid on Moscow on the night of German aircraft strangely silent

about August 9, 10

were brought down and not eight operations on the eastern as previously reported.

front..

the

"During the day of August 9 four fighters destroyed in addition The German midday communi-'five German reconnaissance air- que resurrected

well-worn 'craft in the Moscow civil defence phrase about "operations con- 'zone."—Reuter. ....... tinuing according to plan" but made no specific military claims.

TYPHOON WARNING

STOP PRESS

The London "Times" says that at the end of the seventh, week of war the territory. occupied by the Germans is' only one-tenth of European Russia and only one-fortieth of Russia proper, while so far not one of the main objectives has been occupied. — Special Cable.

The prefix "special””: to, telegrama" Even Goebbels' official nows

used by the "Sunday..., Heraid!!... mrišl "China Mail” to Indicate, news, which agenoy-usually so verbose

The following typhoon warn is strictly, copyright, under the provi had little to say about the ing, from Manila, was received in alons of the Telecommunications Or progress of the fighting... the Colony this morning

dinance, 1938, -and may not be reprint" According to the Moscow, com-' "Manila, 7.40 a.m. Typhoon ind under- any circumstances, either munique battles are still raging about 139, degs. Long. E. 21 degs, wholly or in part, without prior ar in the same sectors of the front, Lat. N., moving north-west."

namely, Smolensk.. where the Nazis have now been held. up for weeks after driving an ugly wedge' into the Russian lines; Korosten, important Ukrainian railway town,

west of Klov, and miles north- the capture of which the Germans recently claimed, and the Estonian sector, where, the Germans", are trying to smash their way through to Leningrad."

A message from Stockholm last night, indicated the Ger mans are now trying to modify the sensational claims : they made" on Saturday of trapping ✅ Soviet första In the southern Ukraine:by an encircling move- mant'aiming at cutting off the Black Sea port of Odessa and Nikolajev,ANA

According to this message Gør- manmilltary circles declared that while the German : High Command -- considered that!! the Russian abandonment of Ukral-

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