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RUSSIA TAKING OFFENSIVE Recapture Of Smolensk Rumoured Roles Reversed

Roosevelt

Speech LEADERS TO CONFER

President Roosevelt yes- terday completed the ad- dress on foreign affairs which he is to deliver at 2 a.m. (G.M.T.) on Friday at the White House.

importance he attaches to the

FREEZING On Central Front ORDER

(By Annalist)

RUSSIA IS TAKING THE OFFENSIVE. FROM SMOLENSK TO GOMEL, SOVIET TROOPS, FOLLOWING A SERIES OF CONCEN- TRATED BLOWS AT SPECIFIC POINTS, ARE BELIEVED TO BE DE- ́ VELOPING A LARGE-SCALE OFFENSIVE ACTION.

The latest indication is the report that German attempts in the Gomel sector to as- sume the offensive were met by counter- attacks and followed up by a counter-offen sive, which smoshed one German motorised division and destroyed the headquarters of another.

Reports are circulating that Smolensk it- The President emphasised the self has been retaken --

or what is left of it speech by increasing its length but there is neither confirmation nor de- and he will now speak for 25 minutes instead of 15 as originally nial of this from Russian sources although President Roosevelt completed confirmation of its recapture is expected (N.Y.) home just before leaving hourly.

planned.

the

speech at his Hyde Park

in a special train for Washington, HE ASKED HIS ŠECRETARIAT TO ARRANGE APPOINTMENTS IN. WASHINGTON LAST NIGHT OR TO-DAY WITH MR. COR- DELL HULL (BECRETARY OF STATE), COL. KNOX (NAVY SECRETARY) AND MR. STIM- SON (WAR SECRETARY).

When asked whether these proposed talks had any connec- tion with the radio speech the President's secretary, Mr. Mas- Gett, replied: "You might make your own deductions.”.

The President is accompanied by his wife. Mr. Harry Hopkins. Lease and. Lend. Supervisor, join-

Sate

Passage Refused

It is probable in a few days there will be no Nazis anywhere east of the Dnieper, even in its

upper reaches, and that the Soviet

counter-offensive has resulted in the complete removal of the Ger- man threat to turn the defence9 of the upper Dnieper by an out- flanking movement from the north as was done with such near disastrous effect; in the Dnieper Bend,

Mr. Cordell Hull, U.S. IF THE NAZIS WANT. THE

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UKRAINE THEY WILL HAVE

ter.

TO

ALLOW

NO DELAY BY IRAN

AND WITH BETTER SUCCESS

ed yesterday that the ro TRY A FRONTAL ATTACK Germans had refused to ACROSS THE LOWER DNIEPER assure safe passage to THAN THEY ARE AT PRESENT any American vessel pro- ACHIEVING. ceeding to Britain to fetch Surging Masses

U.S. citizens.

- The State". Department, he Fighting, as it has been develop- --sald, therefore had taken emer-Led in the Russian campaign. by

··gency --measures tu permit the Nazis, proceeds by enormous Americans stranded in belliger-surging movements of vast masses ent countries to return home in of men and materials which gather "planes and ships other than momentum as they go and are in- *Americana

capable of being stopped.

He emphasised that this was not. The Foreign Secretary, gerent transport facilities but dumily slow them to a temporary blanket, authorisation to use, bel-g Superb Aghting skill can gra- Mr. Anthony Eden, made would be limited to applications standstill by applying a breaking it clear in the House of to accommodate Americand action to their Impetus. It is

marooned many months,

then only a matter of days or even Commons yesterday, that There had been a terrific clam-Hours before the movement res Great Britain would brook our among Americans in Britain, tarts, develops, is slowed and held.

Europe and Asia to return. Mr. Pete no delay in the imple-Hull explained, adding that be THREE TIMES HAVE THE menting of the Anglo- tween 75 and 100 in Britain alone RUSSIANS THUS HELD THE must return within a few weeks ENTIRE MIGHT OF THE NAZI Russian Agreement with or lose their citizenship.

SURGES FORWARD AND Iran,

A large number of technicians THREE TIMES THEY FOUGHT In reply to a question "Mr. Eden who went to England in connec- THEM TO A STANDSTILL said that the Anglo-Russian tion with the war now avished to

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Indications are that this time it

is the Russians who will initiate the forward movement and it re-

terms, which were accepted by the Iranian Government pro vided that "the German Minister. and his staff must leave Iran that the four Legations have mains to be seen whether the Ger immediately and the German been requested to comply forth-mans are as good at applying the Legation closed. RE with, and the Iranian Govern-brako as they are at rolling for

This also applies to the Italian, ment are taking steps to hand word by sheer weight of massed Hungarian and Rumanian Lega- over the German community to metal and an incredible disregard tions.

the British and Soviet Govern- for wholcanio massacre of their The Iranian Government statements, Reuter.

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CORDELL HULL DISCOURAGES OPTIMISM

The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, at his press.con- ference yesterday, said he had no advices of any impending agree- ment or announce- ment concerning the Japanese American

QUERIES

:

Asked in the House of Commons for a statement on the trade barter agree- rgent with Japan, Mr Dingle Foot, Parliamen- tary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, said no general barter arrangement hor anything inconsistent with the strict - enforce- ment of the freezing order had ever been contem- plated.

The usa, of frozen funds for new exports to Japan was 'not -- permitted.

If it should be found · desirablo: | exceptionally to license any par-

talks, which had beenticular imports from Japan it under way for several __months.

Mr. Hull added there was nothing new in the JapaneseTM American situation.- Reuter.

would be a matter, for considera-. tion of what exports should be allowed against such imports and how payment should be effected.

It was probable that this could best be done by setting up a separate clearing account if and when the need for It should. arise.

---At-present, however, no such imports have been licensed and consequently no question of pay- 0004 ment arises

Reuter

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