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RED ARMY RE-TAKES GOMEL

According To Stockholm Report

Counter-Attacks Developing In

LAVAL

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RECOVER Southern Ukraine

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After an emergency operation physicians said last night that Pierre Laval, who was shot by a youthful Frenchman at Versailles in the after- noon, will recover.

Marcel Deat, leader of the French Fascist faction, and an unidentified colonel were also shol when the would-be assassin, Pauli Colette, fired into a group of off-¦ cials,

Gabriel Perı, former member of the Chamber of Deputies, and one-time director of the Communist paper "Humanite," was later gaoled with Colette. The affair occurred on the same day when the French courts were handling hundreds of cases of Communists arrested in the lat-

est

round-up.

News Service.

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Closing Shanghai Leakage

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It is believed that the order of the Board of Trade prohibiting exports to China except via the Burma Road has been made to strengthen the Chinese Stabilisation Fund.

British circles in London feel that although not possessing physical means to stop imports. Into Shanghai, the Stabilisation

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ACCUSATION BY U.S. METAL COMPANY

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Mr.

Frank Eichel- berger of the Prexy Alunite Co., alleged yesterday that the Office of Production Management had dis- couraged an alumi- nium producing pro- cess with which "Ja- pan is producing more aluminium than the United States."-In- ternational News Ser- vice.

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USING ALL AVAILABLE MANPOWER THE RUSSIAN FORCES HAVE LAUNCHED A GEN- ERAL COUNTER-OFFENSIVE ALL ALONG THE LOWER DNIEPER RIVER, IT WAS RE- PORTED IN LONDON YESTERDAY.

According to the Stockholm correspon- dent of the "Daily Telegraph," Red Army troops, after a series of counter-attacks, have

re-entered Gomel. The Moscow war but letins, however, give no details of land opera-

tions.

are

com- entire

was encircled

It is officially stated in Moscow German High Command that the Russians

fighting munique alleges that the stubbornly along the entire front, Red 22nd Army and well-informed quarters state and "annihilated."

defenders that the

of Odessa attacking have "massacred" the

and that German forces,

the

SERBIAN REVOLTS

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A B.B.C. broadcast says Mussolini has been com- pelled to send motorised units to Belgrade to sup- press Serbian revolts.

The German authorities in Bel- grade are unable to get reinforce- ments because of the losses in Russia.

Tass reports that 800 Italians were killed in fighting with Croat troops and a whole Italian regi- ment is reported to have fled.

International News Service.

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GERMAN PRESSURE ON TURKEY

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA_MAIL") THE BEIRUT CORRESPON- New Blitz ? ·

DENT OF THE "DAILY MAIL” Hitler, according to the com- SAYS GERMAN PRESSURE DN. IN ADDITION, TO- Nazis have been obliged to send munique, is moving fresh armies TURKEY,

THE MASSING DF. "NAZIS huge replacements to this sector.up en masse for a new blitz.

The Germans claim that a TROOPS IN BULGARIA" AND- single infantry regiment took IN THEAEGEAN ISLANDS. the town of Berislav, on the LEAD TO THE BELIEF THAT lower reaches of the Dnieper, HITLER IS CONTEMPLATING after a fierce battle "in which A MOVE TO COUNTER THE a Russian battalion was wiped ANGLO- RUSSIAN INVASION out."

OF IRAN. said

The Russians claim that German losses have been terri- fic in the Leningrad and Ukraine sectors and that the counter. attack on the central front continuing successfully. Dealing with the battle between

The German forces are

An indication that no Serious Ilmen, a **❖❖❖❖ Smolensk and Lake

to be establishing what is termed resistance is being met with in a "crushing grip" on the Lenin- Iran was given by M. Lozovsky, grad area, while special Storm the Sqviet spokesman, who said Troops, supported by artillery, Russo-Iranian diplomatic rela- "are preparing to pound Odessa." tions have not been severed -International News Service. International News Service.

SPECTACULAR ADVANCES IN IRAN

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THE BRITISH TROOPS have carried out

Fund will-control the volume of spectacular advances in west and south-west such imports by restricting ex- Iran while the Navy has captured intact most

of the Iranian navy in the Gulf of Persia.

change facilities to approved -im- *ports.

.to

Exporters will be unable obtain licences for unwanted mer- chandise. The Fun will be placed

The oil of the oil areas is now in British

In a strong position to regulate the hands, it was stated in Simla yesterday.

fapl's external exchangé value. Central News.

JAPAN'S CAUTION

Germans and Italians wêre armong the prisoners taken though there is no indication they were actual combatants..

British casualties are reported to be negligible.

As the British and Russian (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") forces continue their swift ad- LOFFICIALS, IN WASHINGTON vance, reports gain currency that REMAIN MUM REGARDING the Shah may drop his opposition THE JAPAN'S ATTITUDE TO: to negotiating an agreement. #WARDS THE PACIFIC PRO- BLEM BUT INFORMED QUAR"

TERO INTERPRET THE APPAR-

Baghdad reports that 16 Ger- man “businessmen” have been .ordered out of Iran and that another. 50, German, pasaports. have been applied for.

Land Link

It is belloved that any agree- ment reached with the Shah must provide for the presence of Allled troops in Iran to block the Nazis on the east and to provide a land link between Britain and Rustió./

ENT ~ CHANGE AS, CAUTION| Axis-Japan break is near, but Mr.ASSEY TILL THE COURSE OF THE Koh Ishli's statement in Tokyo is British paratroops; meanwhile, „HUSBO-GERMAN WAR 18 thought to be an indication of a are now firmly established in the

softening policy. International oilfields, ervice. an New Service.

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