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NAZI THREAT TO LENINGRAD Germans Promise

Promise JAPAN Fate Of Warsaw

AXIS DEMAND ON TURKEY

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Commenting on the pressure applied on Tur- key for the passage of an Italian fleet through the Dardanelles and the pas- sage of troops through Anatolia, the London "Daily Express" says that Hitler has withdrawn four motorised divisions from the Russian front and is concentrating them in Thrace.

A report from Ankara indicates that rumours of a German march on Turkey have grown consider- ably with recent events.

The two German infantry divi- sions in Bulgaria and the Italian garrison of 15,000 on the island of Samos, off Turkey, have strongly reinforced.—Internation- al News Service.

RUSSIANS ABANDON GOMEL

been

The following is the

STATEMENT

ON TRAGIC END OF MR. HOBBS

It is learned offici- ally that Mr. C. C. A. Hobbs, Air Raid Pre- Architect, cautions who died in

tragic circumstances yester- day afternoon, was the principal witness at yesterday morning's sitting of the Air Raid Precautions Commission of In- quiry. Mr. Hobbs gave evidence for ap- proximately one hour,

and was instructed to return at three o'clock to produce certain documents and for further examination.

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(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”) MARSHAL VOROSHILOV'S STIRRING APPEAL TO THE POPULATION OF LENING- RAD TO DEFEND THE CITY TO THE LAST, WAS THE FIRST RUSSIAN ADMISSION THAT

LENINGRAD IS IN GRAVE DANGER, AL-

THOUGH SOVIET CIRCLES REFUSE TO AD- MIT THE CITY MIGHT FALL.

A Soviet broadcast said: "The enemy wants to destroy the city and kill the popula- tion. Comrades! Flock to the workshops and make more guns and munitions for defence of the city.”.

of

543,750

New York yesterday picked up | 500 miles on a 1,800-miles front, a German radio broadcast threa- and that an area tening "St. Petersburg" with the square miles of Russian territory same fate as Warsaw.

is in German hands.

The broadcast, which did not refer to the city as Leningrad, recalled the "useless defence Warsaw."

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Claiming that 5,000,000 Russian troops have been killed or cap-

that

"Ring" Round Leningrad

a

Lakes

tured, the Germans announce A new "ring" round Leningrad

Kherson "gateway to is claimed as possible by the Crimean Peninsula," has break-through between fallen and claim that key cities Ilmen and Peipus, in east Estonia, in Leningrad's defence system"paving the way to the capture have been taken.

of the key cities of Novgorod, An official German

Kingisepp and Narva, on the Gulf summary of the first two months of the of Finland,” war on the eastern front claims that panzer divisions have pene- trated depths between 375 and

Shanghai CALL

text of a communique Strikers

issued by the Soviet In- formation Bureau at 10.40

FOR

(GMT) last night. In Clash WAR IN

"In the course of August - 21

our troops waged stubborn battles with the enemy along the whole front, especially, flerce in the

directions of Kingisepp, Novgorod One striker was killed and five seriously injured when

and Gomel,

"After heavy fighting our troops evacuated Gomel,

"According to incomplete data,

in the course of air combats 21 German caircraft were brought

AMERICA

a clash occurred A call for President yesterday afternoon be- Roosevelt to propose and tween Chinese wharf for Congress to approve declaration of war

down. We lost 12 planes. coolies and the Municipal a

"In the afternoon of August 20, Police on a British-owned against the Axis nations

five German scouting 'planes were

brought down by our fighters on Hongkew Wharf in Way the approaches to Moscow... and not three as previously reported."Side.

Reuter.

EVACUEES FROM MANILA

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Approximately 480 Ger man, Italian and Japanese evacuees from Manila are Que in Shanghai to day in the “Marechal Joffre.”

is made in the "New Republic,“ one of Ameri- ca's foremost|_ Liberal

There is a chance, the

Two foreign police officers were wounded, and one is in hospital. weeklies.

The strikers demanded an in- crease in wages, whereupon they were locked out by the manage magazine says, of "an immediate ment of the wharf. The strikers and complete victory over Hit- retaliated with acts of sabotage er if the United States, Russia on wharf property.

and Britain launch a combined dikdassault?A?

It is feared' the strike will spread to other wharves and cause a tle-up of loading" and

unloading operationg In Shang hal Reuter.

Amarlon, it neserts, labet tor prepared to fight, Germany' now with Aillea than fator with

nonos

"If it is not our wor, we should have nothing to do with it. But we have decided other- wise. If it is our war, "erlough Japanese will proceed to Japan. so that we must put our material The vessel is alsó bringing resources and wealth into the -It 18 balleved the majority of 5,000 bags of Saigon rice to swell scales on one side only, then it the Germans and Italians will Shanghai's staple food supply. Is our war to fight# as well.” disembarkt-in Shanghai- but the International, Nows Service,

Reuter.

ON HER DEFENCE

The attempt by Tokyo

tiate a "modus vivendi” and Washington to nego-

to bring about a tempor- ary relaxation of the present tension in Japan- American relations has ended in failure, ac- cording to Vichy news reports from the Japanese informed capital

well- quoting Japan.

ese -

· sources in

In all, 15 talks are reported to parties are stated to have refused have been held during which both to move positions.

from their respective

Outcome was that the United States Government informed the | Japanese Government, through | its ́Ambassador, Mr. Joseph Grew, that it saw no possibility of achieving results as long as Japan failed to modify her political stand.

The United States is belísy - ed to have maintained-a-most energetic stand throughout 'and to noutral observera „in...Tokyo. It is becoming Increasingly clear the despatch adds, that the situation has now reversed -It- self in the Far East.

It is now the Anglo-Saxon paw-

The reported capture of Kher- son is claimed as a "tremendous victory, opening the way to the narrow isthmus connecting the Crimean peninsula with theers who are taking the initiative. mainland and serving as a bridge Japan is on the defensive and to Sebastopol."* . International is becoming more. and News Service.

isolated. Reuter.

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