THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 19, 1941.
New German Thrust Aimed
At Leningrad
CHINA
Developing
Kiev And Smolensk CURRENCY Damped Down DECISIONS
The establishment of an
Chinese Currency
LATEST REPORTS reaching London in-Operating Committee to dicate that a new German thrust is develop-carry out the decision of ing to the north of Lake Peipus from the the Estonian frontier in the direction of Lenin-Stabilisation Board was grad, is the comment of "Annalist" on the Russian military situation.
It is not yet possible to estimate the strength of the German push which may be part of a concerted movement with the Finns who are also showing activity around Kex- holm.
There is comparative quiet Ground Smolensk and many re- ports speak of indications that The Germans are digging them- selves in in this region. They have certainly desisted from the costly efforts to smash through which were the features of the first six weeks' Oghting.
At Klev, too, conditions are more or les: static and the two arms of the great pincer move-
Wasting
No Time
ment have been stationary at Britain,
the
United
announced by the Chin- ese Government spokes- man at yesterday after- noon's Press Conference in Chungking.
The Committée, under the chairmanship of Dr. H. H. Kung, will have 15 Finance Minister, methbers, five of which will form a Standing Committee.
Reuter learns that the 'irst meeting of the Chinese Currency Stabilisation Board comprising three Chinese, one Briton and one American, was held in Chungking last Saturday.
At this time, important deci- sions were reached among which one was to dispatch members of the Board to Shanghai and Hong Kong to supervise and report on the Executive Board's decision.
It is understood that the Bri- tish member, Mr. E. L. Hall Patch
Korosten in the north-west and States and Russia are is going to Shanghai. Reuter.
Byelaya in the south-cast.
The weight of the German wasting no time in carry-
drive has been transferred toing out the trade agree-
southern Ukraine but the armies
of Marshal Budenney have not ment recently signed be- SOVIET
been cut off and are still cling-tween them. ing tenaciously to some positions in the bend of the Dnieper,
"Venturesome
It is too early to say whether the Germans will try to exploit their successes here and try force Dnieper with a view to
ALLEGES
TORTURES
HEAVY
RAID ON SYRACUSE
Aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm heavily at- facked Syracuse "in Sicily yesterday.
Flying at a low alti- tude, the British 'planes dropped a large number of bombs on the mole and started fires number of which merged into one big sheet of flame feet three hundred high. Reuter.
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CENSORSHIP CANARD
WHEN ASKED IF PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT HÅD APPROVED THE RECOMMENDATION. OF THE NAVY AND ARMY CHIEFS FÖR COMPULSORY CENSOR- BHIP OF ALL COMMUNICA. TIONS
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IN AND OUT, OF AMERICA, THE PRESIDENT'S PRIVATE BECRETARY, MR. STEPHEN EARLY DECLARED THAT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WAS NOT AWARE OF THE EXISTENCE ÖF ANY
BUCH BILL.
Mr. Early added that the Pre sident could not imagine the source of such a report, "except that it was the Wilhelmstrasse or some-one In America who thought he did more of Germany than of the United States.--Reuter.
GERMAN CAPTURE
OF NIKOLAIEV
A
SUCCESS
•
(By Reuter's Military Commentator)
Exports, on a very large scale,
"THE SITUATION in Russia has changed are expected to be made to Rus- sia, chiefly in rubber, tin, wool,'
slightly to the advantage of the Germans and hide and jute while Russia will Britain and America
the occupation of Nikolaiev on the estuary export to hemp, platinum and glycerine.
of the River Bug can be claimed as a success. to In order to cover any unfavour-
able trade balance, Russia will "Inhuman tortures" are Nevertheless, it is only a local one. They have threatening the Don coal basin. utilise the credit granted by Bri inflicted by the Fascists gained nothing decisive, and without "complete
tain of £10,000,000-Reuter,
on the population of c-knowledge of the facts; it is not possible to say how cupied districts, accord it was that the Germans were able to bring superior ing to a supplement to forces to bear on the southern end of Marshal the Soviet communique Budenny's line, for we have had sufficient evidence issued yesterday.
now to feel sure that without superior numbers on *In Stapanovka Village," says, "they shot many peasants
it this local battlefield, the Germans could not have for refusal to betray Soviet work- driven back the Russians as far as they have. ers. In Rudnay Village,
Any such movement, with large Russian forces still undefeated on the left flank of the advance, would be a venturesome proposi- tion.
It is more likely that Hitler will fling In his sorely tired troops against the central sec- tors in the hope that they will have been weakened by the despatch of help
Marshal Budenney.
to
But such speculation is pure guess-work as the High Com- mand is not likely to broadcast itg plans. Reuter.
"Another Tobruk?
: There are Indications that the Germans have resumed the thrust towards Leningrad in the Esthon- tari sector on the axis of the Tal Hinn-Leningrad railway, north of Lake Peipus.
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the Germans.
interest payable by the following Fascists decided to stage a 'recep- It looks, however, as if the 'sian army, is probably dictated tion' for the Germans by the local Nazis on the left of Rumstedt's not by defence of obstacles, "na- army in the direction of Kiev tural or artificial, when full-use population.
"All the villagers were herded have been firmly held and their may be made of such, but by the and over near a microphone and the attacks: repulsed. The Germans necessity of gaining time Co... Fascists tried to compel them to seem to be equally held on the the importance of wearing out
sing. Despite beatings they all road to Moscow and "Leningrad. kept silent and then the Fascists The Russians strategy is pro- The Hong Kong and China Gas opened fire on the defenceless bably governed by such questions If such are the principles un-
crowd
as: the numbers of their divisions derlying the strategical concep- Co., Ltd.
At Oleníno Station, German in reserve which are still fresh tons of the Russian Coffmand. Or Marshal Budenny is not likely to planes, flying low, bombed two Are they fully equipped? Withdrawal of the Russians is
trains of open platform cars must they walt a while before be falling back to the line of the continuing in the Ukraine, west of
With Women and children and they can be provided with full Dnieper because it is the next wounded Red army men In equipment necessary for battle? obstacle to defend, but because the River Doleper, and exports in
not yet ready them....
How long will it take to concen-he London await news da to whether Marshal Budenny has been able to
"The fliers clearly saw who trate them at certain points and deliver the counter-attack which withdraw his forces across the
were on the the platforms. The bring them forward to launch the will drive back and destroy his According to the Sing Tao women and children tried to hide great counter-httacks which must enemy. Dnieper where a great deal of de- fensive work has been carried Jih Pao" quoting a special des- tn the rye fields, but the Fascists be delivered and be successful Shanghai, anat-machine-gunned, them, many of before the Germans can be driven dut and it should be possible to patch from
Red from the soll of Russia? mhake a stand on a very strong tempt to assassinate Wang Ching- the women, children and Une behind the half-mile wide wei at his private residence in army men being killed, Reuter. Nanking was made by six armed
river.
ATTEMPT ON WANG
REPORTED
Odessa is still in Russian-hands men on Saturday night,
and there is still "no indication Wang was got hit, but two AUSTRALIA'S NEW
whether they intend to use it as his body-guard were killed and suggested in some quarters--as one seriously wounded, it is another Tobruk-British Wireless, reported.
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The counter-attack, of the scale necessary to achieve that much to
These questi
tions should decide be desired object, may not be how long the Russian Command ready for some weeks, "perhaps some months, or quite possibly is prepared to light delaying ac- tions and battles of exhaustion not until after the Germans had before it is considered that the been exposed to all the rigours moment has arrived for the us of a winter campaign in Russia, while Europe is rising in revolt 1 behind them. Sumption of the offensive,
The idea of strategy in many
We cannot at present fix the countries, with the exception of
date for such a stroke but ... It' Germany, has been vitiated by
may be taken for granted that. the cult of the defensive of timid-such is being contemplated and ity often concealed under that
prepareds more Imposing word, prudence.. Meanwhile the Japanese seem
VICEROY'S TOUR Major-General Sir Ivan Mac-
kay, newly appointed Command OF PRESIDENCIES er-in-Chief of the Australian
Home Forces, arrived in Singa Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of pore yesterday on his way to A Moscow message states that India, left Bombay yesterday for Australia.
Sir Ivan Mackay liter
Far too much stress has been
o be on the threshold of war in the forthcoming meeting between Simla thus concluding his three British, American and Soviet weeks' tour of Madras and Bom-that everything was
laid on the value of fortified Middle East, conditions were-im-lines of defence and of natural which threaten them.
spite of the immense dangers war aid experts is to be held in bay Presidencies.
were The purpose of this monsoon proving and the troops
W? The noctiang sing Bibèria: are a bomb-proof and gas-proof cel- lar in the Kremlin International tour wag to renew contacts and ready for a new fight wherever
not likely to take-up a defen“. News Service."
inspect the progress of the war, it might be, Reuter,
sive attitudo if the Japanese effort in the Presidencies:
challenge them to combat. In the centre the Chinese may well be able to launch ""several offensive strokes against the re- duced Japanese forces in their front, while on the other wing of the south- forces of the Marshal Budenny's strategy, and British Empire are gathering
Rus-Reuter. indeed that of the whole
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obstacles, while the real defence of a country is never sufficiently recognised or stressed. That real: defence lles in the men and their leaders...
"It is men, not walls, who are the defence of a city," said the Romans of old.
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