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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1941

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UKRAINE ADVANCE CHECKED Cossack Cavalry Go Into Action Germans Unable To Pass Uman

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)

COSSACK CAVALRY AND THE PEOPLE'S MILITIA HAVE HURL- ED BACK THE NAZI FORCES IN THE BATTLE OF THE UKRAINE, ACCORDING TO MOSCOW CIRCLES, AND SO CHECKED THE POW- ERFUL GERMAN DRIVE, THAT THE INVADERS HAVE BEEN UN-

ABLE TO ADVANCE BEYOND UMAN.

Ferry Pilots Killed

-[SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"] SEVEN AMERICAN FLYERS AND 15 BRITISH WERE AMONG THE KILLED IN THE CRASH OF A GIANT 'PLANE IN BRI- TAIN ANNOUNCED

BY THE AIR MINISTRY.

The Nazis are, however, still attempting to force a spearhead to Nikolaiev, outflank- ing Odessa, while a titanic struggle continues to rage at Smolensk.

Fighting took place yesterday at Solsti,

UNITED STATES HANDS OFF MIGHT BE FORCED THAI

TO ACT FIRST

Senator Walter George, until recently Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee, told reporters yesterday

that the United States "might speedily find it necessary to anti- cipate any participa- tion by Germany in the control of France's hemisphere

western EARLIER 120 miles south of Leningrad, where the Nazis are threatening the main railway con-

It is believed the 'plane was a

Boeing flyingboat flying from Lonnection with Moscow.

don to the U.S. with ferry pilots. -International News Service,

INJURED MEN WALK

THREE MILES TO OBTAIN HELP

DESPITE INJURIES and shock, three members of 1st Battery, H.K.V.D.C., strug- gled up a steep bank and walked nearly three miles in pitch darkness to obtain rescue for their comrades, trapped in the debris of the Army lorry which plunged 30 feet over the side of Cape d'Aguilar Road last night.

Sixteen German bombers were shot down at Murmansk.

Red bombers attacked Con. stanza and the Danube port of Chernovaky, hampering the flow of troops and supplica to the Ukraine.

Berlin claims that German panzers and Hungarian troops are "exploiting the advance in the Ukraine." The Nazi radio claims both banks of the Dnieper have been taken "with terrific losses inflicted and the capture of Odessa is imminent." The Nazis also claim for the third successive day that Kiev is **gravelv menaced.". Interna-

tional News Service.

Offensive Stayed

possessions by taking such strategic

over

WARNING

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Britain has bluntly call- ed on Japan to choose by her future action between war or peace and to keep out of Thai.

An official warning stated that "the

Japanese are alone to blame if there is a Pacific war.”

The declarations of Australia und Thai and Mr. Eden's speech on August 6 make the position In- triply clear, it was stated. ternational News Service.

points as Martinique." STILL TIME FOR SENSE

-Reuter.

LE TRAIT

RAIDED

MR. PETER FRASER, NEW ZEALAND PREMIER, BROAD. CASTING LAST NIGHT, SAID: "THE FAR EASTERN SITUA- TION 18 SERIOUS BUT THERE IS STILL TIME FOR WISER COUNSELS THAN AGGRESSION TO PREVAIL,”

BLENHEIM BOMBERS ES-

if, Expressing confidence that CORTED BY FIGHTERS EARLY in spite of every effort at main- LAST EVENING

the ATTACKED |taining peace in the Pacific,

tide of war should reach New SHIPYARDS AT LE TRAIT..

Zealand and Australia, the Dom--

Bombs were dropped on the tar-inion would show the same un- get and a direct hit was observed yielding determination 89 the on a ship on a slipway.

"New motherland, he declared:

to The following is the text of a ed by escorting British fighters.-shoulder with the

One enemy fighter was destroy-Zealand will stand shoulder.

United King- Soviet communique broadcast by Moscow radio at 11.45 (G.M.T.) last night:

"During August 12; nothing "of Importance occurred on the

front.

"Our air force, in cooperation with the land forces, dealt blows on enemy infantry and mechanis-

"Forty-one German aeroplanes were destroyed on August

11. Our losses are 34 'planes.

"Warships and the air arm of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet des- (Continued on Page 15)

The three men, Bombardier Taylor, ed units. L/Bdr. Zaitzeff and Gunner Pomeroy, ac- cording to an eye-witness, were able to extri- cate themselves from the wreckage and pluckily set out for help, though suffering from injuries themselves and still dazed by the impact.

'severe

we were over the side."

Tribute was paid to the pluck of Bombardier Taylor and hin two companions. in going for assist- ance in spite of their injuries.

Rescue work proceeded amid difficulties, the only light being provided by the headlamps of lorries and a hurricane lamp.

L/Bdr. Buckingham, although badly Injured in the head, and face, insisted on his comrades baing attended to first, while | G Gunner Brawn, who sustained a «compound. fracture of the - Jeg;;:amazed rescuers.bygi hla 26heerful" attitude under "great

paine sho

After walking rearly three miles) Intense pluck in spite of the three contacted the rest. of pain. 1st Battery, who were on the point of leaving by, lorries,

While ambulances were tele- phoned for members of 1st Bat- téry formed a human chain down the steep hillside and their in Jured comrades were passed up to the road one by one.svg

- Despite the rapidity of " the rescue efforts and medical atten- | The Army lorry, one normally tion Bombardier Denis Edward used for carrying searchlights, Smith 22, died in hospital at plunged off the narrow Cape 710 this morning from fracture d'Agullar Road when a heavy Fed ribs, internal injuries and cable drum broke loose and caus-

shock.

ed the vehicle to sway from alde to side.

Real Pluck

Of the other survivors, L/Bdr. Swayed Violently Harry William Buckingham and Gunner. W. N., Brown are the ones in a Berlous condition. Both men," "the", "China Mall" Masytold this morning,

rendered by

**First ald was members of fut Battery until the arrival of an Army ambul ance with a military doctor, Captain Brown, R.A.M.C., who administered morphia to the more seriously injured. Ambulances from Queen Mary's Hospital were next on the scene and it was not until 1.30 this morning that the last of the injured, the driver of the lorry, L/Bdr. Roscoe, R.A, was remov ed to hospital,

All those involved in the acci- One of the occupants told the dent were members of the Second "China. Mall," ""I felt the lorry Detachment, 1st Battery, and the suddenly start swaying violently D.EL. (Searchlight) Section. from side to side. Next thing: I (Further Detalls of the Accident] knew there were two bumps and Will Be Found In Pago, Ten)

Reuter.

Idom."—Reuter,

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