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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 4, 1941.

NAZI STRATEGY IN RUSSIA

May Swing Back To Britain Before Winter

GERMANS

THROWN BACK

The Germans have been

hurled back 30 miles 05

a result of Russian coun-

Tremendous

THE STORY OF A

Exertions On The CAMEL Entire Battlefront

WITH

ter-attacks in a 10-day DRAWING

(By "Annalist")

THE LAST DAYS OF SUMMER NEAR THE GREAT CLASH OF

battle, according to a re- ARMS ON THE EASTERN: FRONT" IS, REACH- port by Battalion Com-ING THE POINT WHERE DECISIONS OF missar Visolostrobsky in VITAL CONSEQUENCE TO THE FUTURE the Army organ

COURSE OR THE WAR WILL BE REACHED.. Star."

"Red

THIS REPORT STATED THAT 22 VILLAGES HAD BEEN RE-

SALIENT DRIVEN IN.'

Both sides are straining every nerve, tax-

CAPTURED AND A GERMAN ing their immediate resources to the limit to turn these decisions to their own advantage;, on but the fiercer. the exchanges in the air-and

Scene of the battle was mot disclosed but Was possibly

the central front.

The population of the recaptur- on land, the fewer authentic details reach the

ed villages are HOW bridges and

rebuilding

hastily harvesting outside world from the churned up spaces where the world's two greatest armies are at

long

the rye which stood too during the German occupation.

They can be seen busy in the leach other's throat

fields while the front is only a

very few miles away.

retzken territory.

An occasional shell drops

Russian troops are

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searching

for Gernians in the villages with the help of villagers.-Reuter.

U.S. SHIP BUILDING SPEED-UP

is

communiques

THE

and Soviet IT IS POSSIBLE, HOWEVER, Both the German

GERMANS. PLAN High Commands keep their own THAT counsel in the briefest two-line TO SWITCH BACK TO NORTH- EUROPE SUFFICIENT London WEST and 12

ΤΟ AIR THEIR

FORCE declare OF authoritative quarters

ANOTHER NIGHT once again that official news is MOUNT lacking.

and. comment merely BLITZ ON ENGLAND: ACCOM - that there is no confirmation of PANIED BEFORE WINTER: BY OF SOME AIR- an big change anywhere, either THE, USE, al the

German BORNE DIVISIONS IN LAND- scene of the offensive around Leningrad or in INGS TO DESTROY SELECTED R.A.F. AERODROMES AND the central and, southern sectors, where the Russians are reported OTHER VITAL OBJECTIVES. to be persisting in their counter- attacks.

even

other

divisions

will be

That these certainly committing suicide will be no deterrent to the German High Command should they con- sider the damage they are likely to inflict before they are rounded up, killed or captured, worth the risk.

Six Weeks

IT IS POSSIBLE, HOWEVER, WITH THE. STEADY

AP- ΤΟ PROACH OF WINTER

THE MAIN AU The United States VISUALISE

PURPOSES TUMN

OF THE shipping programme GERMAN STRATEGY. ahead of schedule, ac- They are the capture of Lenin-

Kiev, Odessa and cording to Rear-Admiral grad,

Moscow, with the object of fix- Emory Land, Chairman ing the front for the winter, with Factors against such a venture, military, indus- however, are the effect such an of the Maritime Commis- Russian naval,

will have trial and political strength seri- indecisive "invasion" sion, at his press confer-ously weakened so that

on the minds of the sorely-tried campaigns can be pursued not- German population and the time. ence yesterday.

ably in the eastern Mediter-required to mount it. new ships ranean He predicted that

North Africa and

Since their bomber and totalling about 12,410,000 tons gether, it is even possible, with deadweight would be placed in a limited invasion of Britain de-

front is down to bed-rock, It cperation between the beginning signed to pin down and weaken of last July and the end of 1948. the RAF.

These figures did not include 105 vessels. in commission, which had been delivered up to to-day or additional small, vessels and craft for which the Commission was contracting.. Reuter.

Invasion Threat

to-

The time table for a serious invasion of Britain this year has undoubtedly been upset.

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VICHY AIR

CHIEF CHANGES VIEW

little

The following story has reached India from a correspondent in the Sudan:-

An army truck, driven by an

✪✪✪ | Indian soldier, was. travelling

General Bergeret, Vichy aviation chief, who, it was reported two months ago, be- lieved Germany would win the war, recent- ly expressed the con- viction in conversa- tion that Germany is bound to lose owing to eventual fuel short- age, says Reuter from the French frontier.

SIR

Sudar,

across a bridge in Port There was a slight traffic jam, and the driver did not

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brake quite quickly enough to avoid a camel. Unfortunately, the animal's leg be was broken, and it: had to shot. This.. was a very serious loss to the owner, "fuzzy-wuzzy, who was persuaded by the police to bring a charge.

came When the case

up. in court, the driver was put in the. dock and the "fuzzy-wuzzy" was usked to identify him. He had one look at the Indian, and turn- ed to the magistrate-indignantly and said:

man

"If this is the man who killed my camel, I wish to withdraw the charge.

this In the first place

and here, is a foreigner therefore a guest in my country. In the second place, he has come here to defend me against enemy."

my

mer-

The court was full of Ichants that morning, and so imm- pressed were they by the spirit of the camel-owner's reply that on the they made a collection spot and gave him enough money to buy another camel.

So honour was satisfied, the spirit of hospitality untarnished, and the camel replaced.

STAFFORD

CRIPPS ACCLAIMS SOVIET SPIRIT

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“OUR ADMIRATION for: the magnifi- cent achievements of the Soviet forces by transport force on the western land, sea and air is unstinted,” writes» Sir would take them at least six Stafford ́ Cripps, British Ambassador in Mos- weeks, it is estimated, to pre-cow, in an article in yesterday's Soviet paper

pare:

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The answer to the threat of a initiative, wher- the hands of fresh German

ever shown, is in and America..

Rússia, Britain

Reuter

Pressure Increasing

"Izvestia."

"We acclaim the determination of every man, woman and child to protect their home- land from the brutal invader and we are con- fident that the spirit of courage and deter- German communiques are ex-mination will bring our two countries a final

and successful issue in our struggles..

Although both the Russian; and

tremely reticent regarding details

of the fighting, unofficial reports

all emphasise that the pressure of the German forces is increasing against: Leningrad..

war

Though great trials and suf-tain and the Soviet Union ferings still lie before our people, backed by the gallant forces of Claims are made by German this. third year. of war opens in their allies, by the hopes of ten

correspondents that their conditions full of hope and with of millions of Europeans and by forces are within 15 miles of the the absolute certainty of eventual the almost inexhaustible resourc second city in Russia but informed victory for the cause, that we de- of the American, continen opinion in London, says there is fend against the villainous aggres- Reuter. no confirmation of any large sion of Hitler and his minions. change in the line either in the Leningrad or Gomel and Kiev sector-

The fall of Tallinn, reported in the Russian midnight communi- que, is part of an independent operation and could have no im- mediate effect on the Leningrad. offensive.

The territory, round: Leningrad is stated to be of a marshy character and unsuited-to-speedy. advance, by German mechanised units: -British Wireless

ABOLITION OF DEATH: SENTENCE

"He was no blinded by his

own lust for power that he BOYS

could. not recognise the gallant strength of the Red Army,

Navy and Air Forcep now, with UNDER

the flower of his army stricken on Soviet land and, thousands of his tanks, and äeroplanes, ré- duced; to scrap, he must look with, every growing fear at

TENGAOLED

the mounting forces of the ACCORDING TO THE HUN enemy whom he once despload: GARIAN NEWSPAPER "PESTER

The German.Task

LLOYD, THE CRIMINAL COURT IN BUDAPEST HAS SENTENCED TO IMPRISON "In the West, too, night after MENT A NUMBER OF BOYE night and day, after day, on BETWEEN THE AGES OF SIX ever-increasing force of British AND 16 ON A CHARGE OF planes rains down destruction on DAMAGING THE STATE RAIL the industries of Germany, HE WAYS TO THE DANGER OF

“In the occupied territories ho THE PUBLIC.. has encountered more, and more

Another report quoted in Zur difficulties, as the peoples of those lands put up stubborn and ich recounts that six Danes, in- courageous resistance to hla cluding a woman aged 23, receiv domination.

ed sentences ranging from 30 day to two years for insulting Germar officers and soldiers in Denmark

-Reuter

A Government Bill: abolishing, the death sentence for murder and substituting life imprison- ment, and also, abolishing flogging,¦ has been read the first time in the New Zealand, House of Re "Arrayed against him now stand presentatives, says Reuter from side by side two of the greatest Wellington,

lanations in the world-Great Brl-