1941-08-19 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 19, 1941.

DNIEPER FIGHTING

German Claims With Usual Colourful Details

Shanghai TO BE DROPPED Again On Verge HEALTH: NEW Hopeful

PAIR OF LEGS

OVER GERMANY

A pair of artificial legs is expected to be dropped by parachute over Germany for Wing Commander Bader, the legless R.A.F. pilot who was recently taken prison- er by the Germans. It is expected that the enemy will cooperate by delivering the legs to Wing Commander Bader Reuter.

GENERAL GRASETT'S OPINION

Russians

Of Collapse

THE DNIEPER RIVER WAS REACHED ON SUNDAY MORNING BY GERMAN INFANTRY UNITS WHO HAD MADE FORCED MARCHES, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL GERMAN NEWS AGENCY D.N.B., IN A STATEMENT ON RUSSIAN WAR DEVELOPMENTS.

No indication is, however, given of the location of the penetration. The claim states that the infantry had the support of tanks and artillery and that "small Soviet rearguards which attempted to hold them off were over- whelmed.

German guns are now stated to of men and materials, the will to command a stretch of the river victory of the German soldiers preventing the withdrawal of will bring final success for Ger- Soviet troops.

man arms."

The Nazi High Command spokesmaḥ in Berlin fast night said that German troops from Krivolrog had reached the Dnieper 80 miles to the east and advancing towards the great Soviet Industrial city Dneipropetrovsk.

were

of

These two announcements pre- sumably refer to the same opera- tion.

"The

"WE ARE NOW EXTREMELY STRONG IN MALAYA. ANY ATTEMPT TO TAKE SINGA- PORE WOULD BE A VERY HEAVY UNDERTAKING," DE- CLARED MAJOR-GENERAL A. The spokesman added: E. GRASETT, G.O.C. OF THE Russians are tough in their resis- BRITISH FORCES IN CHINA tance but one day they will be no FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS longer able to resist the enormous AND A HALF, IN AN INTER- German pressure. Already one VIEW ON. HIS ARRIVAL FROM į can predict that despite their HONG KONG, EN ROUTE TO seemingly inexhaustible supplies} LONDON, IN VICTORIA (BRI- TISH COLUMBIA) YESTERDAY.

Major-General Grasett added: perate Japan will not be so rash "It is my considered opinion that as to fight Britain or the United unless she becomes really des States."-Reuter.

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Piling It Up

The official German news agency also reports that "the remnants of four Soviet Infantry divisions were wiped out by a Nazi pincer movement in the Nikolaiev area yesterday."

The Soviet troops, it says, were trying to break through to a road

HITLER'S

RUMOURS

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")

Ill health has forced Hitler to leave the Russian front and go to Berchtesgaden, ac- cording to a Moscow Radio report, quoting Berne.

The report stated that a specialist in nervous diseases had been consulted and two Swiss Psycholo gists. has

.

Hitler's health "deteriorated the Russian setback."-In- ternational News Ser- vice.

Since front

UKRAINE DRIVE

SLOWING UP

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA: MAIL"): »

Shanghai business men this morning expressed- the opinion that Shang- har's trade will be improv- ed "somewhat"

by the the strengthening of the National Currency.

Nevertheless, the large number of restrictions on exchange move- ments by the Currency Stabilisa- tion Committee will, it is felt, make any great trade upswing improbable.

It is noteworthy that apparent from the official controls, Chinese currency has strengthened on the black markets as a result of the stabilisation action.-International News Service,

over

the Dnieper.-International News Service.

Soviet Communiqué

The Soviet midnight communi- que covering the fighting during the hours of daylight yesterday

"Our says:

troops continued fierce fighting with the enemy along the entire front. After stubborn fighting, our troops evacuated the town of Kingisepp (due east of Narva and south- west of Leningrad.)

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"During August 17, 22 German 'planes were brought down in air pounding with long-combats. We lost 18 'planes.

and

In German hands. They forces are made their last stand along a range guns from all sides, railway embankment which is that the Luftwaffe is ceaselessly said to have been piled with attacking. Russian dead,

"According to precise data now available, in the course of air combats on August 16, 25 Ger- man 'planes were brought down, not 19 as previously reported.

"In the Baltic Sea, our torpedo- boats sank a German submarine and two enemy transports." several passages Reuter.

The radio says that the Luft- THE REPORT MAKES NO waffe, having cleaned up the job MENTION OF ANY PRISONERS in Nikolaiev, has now moved" to HAVING BEEN TAKEN, BUT|new assignments and is stated to AN HUNGARIAN CLAIM ISSU-have destroyed ED LAST NIGHT REFERS TO SEVERAL THOUSAND PRI- SONERS AND CONSIDERABLE BOOTY FROM THE BATTLE- GROUND OF NIKOLAIEV,

says:

The Hungarian communique "Since the fighting on August 8, our troops have ad- vanced between 120 and 150 miles along the River Bug to take part with the German forces in the Battle of Nikolajev. Our motorcyclists caused heavy losses to an enemy superior in numbers, who fought fiercely while our cavalry checked all his attempts to break out.”

Peipus Claim

According to a Stockholm meɛ- sage to the Italian News Agency quoted by Rome Radio, it is claimed that German troops ad- vancing along both sides of the Lake Peipus on the Estonian frontier have joined forces in the north.

Russians in Estonia, it is stat- ed, are thus cut off by the Ger- mans in the 30-mile wide peck of land between Lake Peipus and the Baltic. Reuter.

...

Russian Retreat

A Russian early morning com- munique revealed the abandon- ment of the important Black Sea port of Nikolaelv after the blow- ing up of the great system of docks from which Ukraine corb is exported: Krivoirog, the Indus- trial centre of the iron ore busin in the bend of the Dnieper, has also been abandoned. --British Wireless:

NOTICE TO QUIT

JAPANESE LIVING INA- LARGE DEFENCE AREA IN THE SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF JOHORE HAVE BEEN. GIVEN NOTICE TO LEAVE. WITHIN 14

IT IS BELIEVED THAT MORE THAN 50 PERSONS ARE CON- CERNED, MOST OF THEM RUB- BERESTATE PROPRIETORS | AND MINE OWNERS, SAYS A REUTER MESSAGE FROM {{SINGAPORE.

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