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Russia Taking The Offensive

(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.

CLOTHES

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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 smashed one German motorised division and destroyed the headquarters of ROTS. A WOMAN CAN BUY A another.

Reports are circulating that Smolensk it- self has been retaken or what is left of it but there is neither confirmation nor de- nial of this from Russian sources although confirmation of its recapture is expected hourly.

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 de'ences of the upper Drieper by an out- flanking movement from the north as was done with such near disastrous effect in the Dnieper Bend.

IF THE NAZIS

OTHER HALF

UKRAINE THEY

"MYSTERIOUS STRANGER" IN BIRMINGHAM

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A mysterious stranger

with tattooed hands walk- WANT THE ed into a Birmingham

OF THE

WILL HAVE house recently and took TO TRY A FRONTAL ATTACK charge when a man was

ACROSS THE LOWER DNIEPER

AND WITH BETTER SUCCESS dying.

THAN THEY ARE AT PRESENT ACHIEVING.

Surging Masses

He said he was a police officer and undertook to look after the dying man who had taken poison. He refused to allow a neighbour to fetch a doctor.

OF FOR 14 POUNDS

CAR-

NEW HAT AND A PAIR OF SUMMER SHOES, OR TWO PAIRS OF 3/6 STOCKINGS IN A DEPARTMENT STORE IN |CROYDON, LONDON.

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The store is doing big business under a special barter system it has introduced,

One woman exchanged a basket of mixed vegetables from her gar- den allotment for one 'straw hat In the latest style. The hat was valued at 6/11.

3lb. of She paid for it with carrots, valued at 1/3, 2lb. of tur- nips (1/-), 2lb. of apples (1/4), 2lb. of beans (1/8), 2lb. of onions (1/3) and one marrow worth 4d.

V

RACE OVER CROPS

TO NAZI 'PLANE

When a German 'plane was brought down recently in a Lincs country district, more than 2,000 the fields. people rushed over smashing fences and damaging crops, it was stated at a meeting of the local Farmers' Union branch.

was а

This story was told at a Bir- Fighting, as it has been develop mingham inquest оп William A farmer said there ed in the Russian campaign by Measham 38, of Kingstanding half-mile queue of cars. the Nazis, proceeds by enormous Road, Kingstanding, Birmingham. surging movements of vast masses!

The meeting asked Now the police are looking for of men and materials which gather the stranger, who is said to be energetic action by the police in momentum as they go and are in-between 40 and 45, about 5ft 8in. future. capable of being stopped.

high, and heavily tattooed hands and fingers.

Superb fighting skill can gra dually slow them to a temporary A doctor said Measham's standstill by applying a breaking might have been saved if he action to their impetus. It Is, had medical attention earlier. then only a matter of days or even hours before the movement res- tarts, develops, is slowed and held THREE TIMES HAVE THE RUSSIANS THUS HELD THE ENTIRE MIGHT OF THE NAZI SURGES FORWARD AND THREE TIMES THEY FOUGHT THEM TO A STANDSTILL.

Indications are that this time it is the Russians who will initiate the forward movement and it re- mains to be seen whether the Ger- mans are as good at applying the brake as they are at rolling for- ward by sheer weight of massed: metal and an incredible disregard for wholesale massacre of their manpower.-Reuter.

WAR ON FLYING 5TH COLUMN

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It was stated that when bombs life' fell in the same district souvenir had hunters trampling corn did more

harm than the bombs.

SHANGHAI TRADE

ANXIETIES

tribulation“

are

“UNENDING TRIALS, difficulties and seen to be confronting Shanghailanders by

ers by "Finance and Com- merce,“ leading British financial weekly, fol- lowing the discontinuance of the open market for foreign exchange.

Pointing out that Shanghai's import sur- plus during the first seven months of the year. totalled £13,500,000 and in July exceeded national security might have been £3 millions, the publication states:

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Secrets of vital importance to found in the cliffs of Solway Caves., This has led the Air Ministry to impose the death penalty upon Fifth Columnists of the air-per- grine falcons.- .

Every day in the Solway dis trict of Dumfries and Cumber- land ralding parties go out to destroy these birds.

esay will import- silk and other goods from Japan and sell them to foreign exporters in Shang- Chalda “This

"It cannot be denied that the stopping of many classes of

Im- ports must strike a serious and perhaps fatal blow at a large

would unquestionably number of small firma and Indus tries upon which hundreds, proboost exports (leaving out the bably thousands, of people now question of shipping) and provide depend for a livelihood.

foreign export firms with more Carrier pigeons, since the out-Prices will now rise, not be trade and authorised banks with break of war, have been doing im- cause of the depreciation of cur larger amounts of exchange." portant work for the RAF Men rency but because those with The periodical states this sounds. In authority were worried at the goods to sell will exploit them to well in theory but foresees sever- non-arrival of some of these birds, the full" HANEL PARA defalt difficulties.

The effect of the disappearance

and the loss of messages which WITH A VIEW TO RECTIFY- might have played an Important ING THIS SITUATION FIN Speculation Switch part in the air conflict. MORA FANCE AND COMMERCE d

After Investigation, it was found URGES RATIONING AND that the birds were not shot down STRICT PRICE CONTROL of the open exchange market on by Nazis, but were killed by fal- Only bright feature the weekly gold bar speculation has been al-

է:: cons, which are very numerous sees is the possibility of expansion most overwhelming, states “Tin- along certain shores of Britain of Shanghai's export trade and a ance and Commerce.

Since this discovery scores of resulting improvement in the ex-The turnover is now "Insignif. cant," it says, "and idle and. trus- falcons have been killed in an or change position,

trated gold speculators have turn- ganised campaign to kill on sight the enemies of Britain's dispatch Dodging The Freeze? ed during the past two weeks to the yarn market and since the flyers.,

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(Sir Charles Portal, Air Chief Marshal, is Britain's greatest au- thority on falconry)

In this connection, the periodi -- beginning of this week particu- oal says reports aro current-of-larly, enormous Interest has been

the possiblilty that the Japan-taken. Heuter.