1941-09-04 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 4, 1941. ·

NAZI STRATEGY IN RUSSIA

May Swing Back To Britain Before Winter

VICHY AIR CHIEF

CHANGES VIEW

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 Germony is bound to lose owing to eventual fuel short- age, says Reuter from the French frontier.

GERMANS THROWN BACK

The Germans have been hurled back 30 miles

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a result of Russian coun- ter-attacks in a 10-day battle, according to a re-

Tremendous Exertions On The Entire Battlefront

WITH

(By "Annolist")

THE LAST DAYS OF SUMMER

U.S. SHIP

DRAWING NEAR THE GREAT CLASH OF BUILDING

ARMS ON THE EASTERN FRONT IS REACH!-

ING THE POINT WHERE DECISIONS OF SPEED-UP

VITAL CONSEQUENCE TO THE FUTURE COURSE OF THE WAR WILL BE REACHED.. Both sides are straining every nerve, tax- ing their immediate resources to the limit to turn these decisions to their own advantage, but the fiercer the exchanges in the air and on land, the fewer authentic details reach the outside world from the churned up spaces where the world's two greatest armies are at each other's throat.

The United States

NO BASIS FOR GERMAN CLAIM

Reuter's special cor- respondent in Moscow telegraphs there is no basis for the German claim to be within 15 miles of Leningrad.

BERLIN THREATS

is A BERLIN CORRESPONDENT shipping programme TO THE "NEUË ZURCHER ZEI-

of schedule, ac-

REPORTS IT IS OF TUNG” ahead

STATED: "THE cording to Rear-Admiral FICIALLY

MUCH GREATER BOMBING TO Emory Land, Chairman LONGER NIGHTS WILL BRING of the Maritime Commis- BRITAIN. sion, at his press confer- ence yesterday.

"Experience has proved that day attacks over well defended areas are in general too costly to carry He predicted that new ships ou for long periods. The Gérman totalling about 12,410,000 tons Luftwaffe will therefore soon start deadweight would be placed in on farge scale night attacks al- technical Both the German and Soviet IT IS POSSIBLE, HOWEVER,peration between the beginning though, in spite of all

of last July and the end of 1943, progress, accuracy in night bomb- THE GERMANS PLAN High Commands keep their own THAT

ing is not wholly possible. counsel in the briefest two-line TO SWITCH BACK TO NORTH-

These figures did not include and in communiques

EUROPE •SUFFICIENT London WEST

(05 vessels in commission which "This is the reason that the suc- THEIR declare OF quarters

AIR FORCE authoritative

TO

had been delivered up to to-day or cess we expected through Jur ANOTHER NIGHT once again that official news is MOUNT

uaditional small vessels and craft heavy bombing of British indus- lacking and comment merely BLITZ ON ENGLAND ACCOM

for which the Commission was try and ports has not come up to WINTER BY that there is no confirmation of PANIED BEFORE

contracting. Reuter.

expectations."--British Wireless. an big change anywhere, either THE USE OF SOME AIR-

at

the

IN LAND. of the scene

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

port by Battalion Com- IT IS POSSIBLE, HOWEVER, be no deterrent to the German

missar Visolostrobsky in the Army organ. "Red Star."

THIS REPORT STATED THAT 22 VILLAGES HAD BEEN RE- CAPTURED AND A GERMAN SALIENT "DRIVEN IN."

THE STEADY

WITH PROACH OF WINTER VISUALISE THE MAIN

That these divisions will be certainly committing suicide will

AP-High Command should they con- TO sider the damage they are likely AU-!

to inflict before they are rounded up. killed or captured, worth the risk.

TUMN PURPOSES OF THE GERMAN STRATEGY.

Six Weeks

They are the capture of Lenin- grad, Kiev, Odessa and even Moscow, with the object of fix- ing the front for the winter, with Factors against such a venture, Scène of the battle was not Russian naval, military, indus-, howevo, are the effect such an disclosed but Was possibly on trial and political strength seri- indecisive "invasion" will have the central front.

ously weakened so that other on the minds of the sorely-tried The population of the recaptur campaigns can be pursued not- German population and the time ed villages are now rebuilding ably in the eastern Mediter- bridges and hastily harvesting ranean and North Africa to- the rye which stood too long gether, it is even possible, with during the German occupation. a limited invasion of Britain de- They can be seen busy in the signed to pin down and weaken fields while the front is only a the R.A.F. very few miles away.

An occasional shell drops ill

retaken territory.

Invasion Threat

Russian troops are searching The time table for a serious for Germans in the villages with invasion of Britain this year has the help of villagers-Reuter. undoubtedly been upset.

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Since their bomber and transport force on the western front is down to bed-rock, it

SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS ACCLAIMS SOVIET SPIRIT

"OUR ADMIRATION for the magnifi- cent achievements of the Soviet forces by land, sea and air is unstinted," writes Sir would take them at least six Stafford Cripps, British Ambassador in Mos- cow, in an article in yesterday's Soviet paper "Izvestia."

weeks, it is estimated, to pro- pare.

The answer to the threat of a fresh German initiative, wher- ever shown, is in the hands of Russia, Britain and America.

Reuter.

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Pressure Increasing

"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 emination 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.

Union

"Though great trials and suf-tain and the Soviet 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 tens war 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 resources second city in Russia but informed victory for the cause that we de of the American continent.” opinion in London says there is fend against the villainous aggres- Reuter. no confirmation of any large sion of Hitler and

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 communf 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.....

Midnight Communique

The following is the text of the Søvlet midnight, communique Issued by the Soviet Information Bureau.

"During September 3 our troops. stubbornly fought the enemy along the whole front.

"On September 1, 30 enemy aircraft were brought down in air combats und destroyed on aero- 'dromes: We lost 27 planes,

Reuter. *

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"He was so blinded by his own just-for: power that Sho

... could "not recognise the gallant strength of the Red Army, Navy and Air Force; now, with the flower of his army stricken on Soviet tand, and, thousands of his, tanke and aeroplanes re- duced to Gorap, he must look with every growing four at

BOYS UNDER

TEN GAOLED

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

The German Task

1. LOAY DAW ATHE CRIMINAL COURTIN. BUDAPEST. HAS SENTENCED TO IMPRISON-. "In the West, too, night after MENT A NUMBER OF BOYS night and day ́ after day, an BETWEEN THE AGES OF SIX ever-increasing force of British AND 16. ON A CHARGE OF planes raine down destruction on DAMAGING THE STATE RAIL- the industries of Germany,

WAYS TO THE DANGER "OF "In the occupied territories he THE PUBLIC. has encountered more and more tak difficulties as the peoples of Another report quoted in Zur- those lands put up stubborn and ich recounts that six Dancs, in- courageous resistance to his cluding a woman' aged 22, réceiv- ..domination,

ed sentences ranging from 30 days "Arrayed against him now stand to two years for insulting German side by side two of the greatest officers and soldiers in Denmark. Inations in the world-Great Bri--Reuter.