1941-08-21 — Page 16

FURTHER

ADVANCE

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 21, 1941.

GERMAN

ONLY

SLIGHT

No Spectacular Result In Last 24 Hours

BLACK SEA Little Change

BATTLE

RAGES

(Continged from Page 1)

Berlin claims that Leningrad has been partially cut off from Moscow owing to Stuka dive-

radiating from the metropolis.

tilities are now being mounted on

on

destruction. --- International News Service,

In Ukraine Situation

"ANOTHER 24 HOURS OF STUBBORN

bombing attacks on the railways FIGHTING ALONG THE GREATER PART OF All reports indicate that hos- THE EASTERN FRONT HAS BEEN MARKED new high levels of fury and BY SLIGHT GERMAN ADVANCES IN THE SECTOR BETWEEN KINGISEPP AND NOVO. GROD, BUT WITH NO RESULT, EITHER SPECTACULAR OR DECISIVE," WRITES ANNALIST” IN HIS MILITARY COMMEN-

No Confirmation

There is no confirmation of the

German claims to have occupied

the whole of the south Ukrainian

area west of the Dnieper, but iTARY YESTERDAY. is pointed out by competent com- mentators in London that these claims are not denied by Soviet commur,iques.

"The Russians are everywhere fighting with stubbornness and tenacity, and their Enemy claims regarding cap- morale seems completely unshaken by nearly viewed with the gravest mis-two months of continuous strain.

turos of men and material are

AUSTRALIANS IN SECRET SESSION

At the conclusion of Mr. Menzies' speech at Canberra, Parliament went into

a secret session which lasted six hours.

The Government and the Labour Parties will to-day discuss Mr. Menzies' proposed trip to London. It is considered unlikely that Labour will agree. Reuter.

Canadian Army Convoy

JAPANESE THREATS DISCOUNTED

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA, MAIL"]

Indications that Senate opponents of President Roosevelt's foreign policy will stage an organised fight against American aid to Russia under, the Lease-Lend Act were pro- vided in Washington yesterday.

*

Supporters of the Administra- tion are confident that American supplies will get there nonetheless,

Pacific. by the route across the to Siberia, regardless of any Japanese threats.

some

be

If Russia is unable to pay, and her immediate resources will not last long, the Ad- ministration "will probably find trust, the opinion being express-

some way to help." Whether the vigour of the Ger- ed that the scale of the opera-

A promissory note is consider- tion and the eize of the forces

man offensive is unimpaired after

ed in

quarters to involved would preclude the tlon Bureau said; "During August the same strain is known only to

sufficient collateral, pointing out waged stubborn the German High Command and

that the Russians have raw. probability of any accuracy in 20, our troops

battles with the enemy in the the German soldier, but it would A FURTHER CONTINGENT materials and strategic metals computation. But even taking the German directions of Kingisepp, Novgorod, be more than human nature for of THE CANADIAN ARMY needed for the American

JUST value, the Staraya Russa, Gomel and Odessa. the ordinary infantryman to dis- HAS

ARRIVED AT A defence programme. A figures at their face

According to precise dala now play the same zest in fighting for BRITISH PORT — A LIVING ing arrangement should numbers claimed are not impres-

THAT the magnitude available, 38 enemy 'planes were he knows not what against enem-PROOF sive considering of the battle and they lend colour brought down in air combat on les as elusive as they are hard-|LOSING THE BATTLE OF THE Service. to the belief that Marshal Bud- August 18, and not 30 as pre-hitting.

On August 19, enny has successfully crossed the viously reported. Dnieper with the greater part of 27 German 'planes were brought We lost British Wire-down in air combats. his army intact. less.

eight.

"On the afternoon of August 20, our

down fighters brought three German reconnaissance on the approaches to The Soviet midnight communi- 'planes que issued by the Soviet Informa- Moscow." Reuter.

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GERMANY 18 be difficult.International

ATLANTIC IT WAS LEARN "Deepite the "admitted | ED IN LONdon yesŤERDAY. ambulance units. efficiency of German organiša. The contingent include Ord- The same convoy also brought tion, the growing strain of the nance, army service corps, heavy to Britain men of the Increasing distance and wear anti-aircraft guns, and field Army. Reuter.

and tear must also ba having cumulative affect.

Ukraine Claims

"Nothing new is-reported in the Smolensk and Kiev sectors and the German claims in the Ukraine do not carry one any further than what they asserted on Tuesday, namely that the Russian bridge heads west of Dnieper were being assailed.

"It is significant that Russian aviation is still ab'e to carry out raids on Berlin and the Ruman- |ían, oilfields in addition to Co-

operational work in spite of the repeated Getmap claimą, not once but over and over again, to have established complete supremacy in the air?"-Reuter.

HOTEL WARNING

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”)

THE MANAGEMENTS OF THE CATHAY HOTEL, GROUP YESTERDAY WARNED THEIR CHINESE ⠀, EMPLOYEES WHO WALKED OUT ON MONDAY THAT IF THEY DO NOT RE- TURN TO-DAY THEY WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY DISMISSED.

At present there are. 2,000 of the original strikers out." About 800, mainly waiters and room- boys, have returned. Inter- national News Service.

Full Dress Rehearsal

St. John Ambulance Brigade are to hold First Aid Post Exer- cises on Sunday, from 10 am to 12 noon and from 2.30 p.m.| to 5.30 p.m., 'a full dress rehearsal for an emergency. De Vis,

All Brigade personnel are to report for duty at the First Aid Posta to which, they have been allocated during the stated times.

The prefix special!? to: telegramb le used by the "Sunday Herald' and ||China: Ma[{!?! »tö% Indicate news which ls #trictly copyright: under the provi. |sions" of the Telecommunications ·OF dinance, 1930, and may not be reprint. |ed;" under any circumstances;'; either. wholly or in part, without prior, ari rangement.

STOP PRESS

The United States Secretary of States expressed the gen- eral feeling when he warmly welcomed China's endorse. ment of the Anglo-American eight-point declaration.

This step has made an ex- cellent impression in Wash- ington, particularly as China" is the first Government. to offer its unequivocal support: of the declaration. -Reuter.

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Belgian

Captain Charles Chris- tie Arthur Hobbs, -Air- Raids Precautions Archi- tect, P.W.D., was found shot dead at his home, No. 2, Thorpe Manor, this afternoon.

No details are yet avail- able.

Captain Hobbs served in Meso- potamia and Nigeria before join- ing the PW.D. in Hong Kong as an Architect in 1934. In 1938, he took a course in A.R.P. at the Home Office, and was appointed. Architect in charge of A.R.P. in January, 1939.

He was fifty years of age. AR.P. construction contracts. are now the subject of an official commission of inquiry, the terms of reference of which were widen- ed in their scope by Government Gazette Extraordinary issued yes- terday.