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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 12, 1941.
NEW MURMANSK OFFENSIVE
Little Change On Timoshenko
Attack. Continues
(Military Commentary by “Annalist”)
A NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIGHTING IN RUSSIA WAS REPORTED IN LONDON YESTERDAY WHEN IT WAS STATED IN AUTHORITATIVE CIRCLES THAT THERE WERE INDICATIONS THE GERMANS HAVE STARTED AN ATTACK IN THE MURMANSK DISTRICT, ON THE ARCTIC SEA, 600 MILES NORTH OF LENIN- GRAD.
How this attack is progressing, or whether it is on a very big scale, is not yet known. It is stated it seems to be coming from the direc-
DEATH OF
tion due west of Murmansk and Finnish DEATH-RAY
troops are believed to be taking part.
There is a railway line running down to Lenin- grad from Murmansk which at one point skirts the western border of Lake Ladoga, on the eastern side of which the Finns recently claimed to have ad- vanced.
Pending further information this of the actions undertaken by Mar- development does not seem to af-shal Timoshenko's armies, feet the fighting in the main Rus- stan centres,
information on
MATTHEWS
The death was an- nounced from Swansea
Grindel - Matthews,
Main Fronts
BACKWARD IN COMING FORWARD
Of the 10 Italian divisions which the Germans required on the Eastern Front, it is understood only three have been despatched and only one is in the fighting line operating behind German shock troops.
OXFORD GROUP STATUS
Within the meaning of the British National Ser- vice Act, the Oxford Group is not accepted by Government as a religious organisation.
This was stated at question time In the Commons yesterday by the Labour Minister, Mr. . Ernest Bevin, when answering a question about the number of lay preach- ers of military age who were ex-
Mr. Bevin said over 500
lay- exempted or preachers were served.
The remaining divi-empted from military service. sions are expected to be despatched shortly at the urgent request of the Germans. Reuter.
00000
Valley yesterday of M. H. PRINCE known as "Death Ray CHICHIBU
Matthews."
Kiev Clash
violent claim
it was
re-
When asked whether he regard- ed the Oxford Group as coming within the category of lay preach- Mr. Bevin replied: "No. Within the meaning of the Nation- al Service Act and from the view. 00004|point of their ability to
Among his researches, IN SAIGON
Delated
the The Germans latest developments were not pro-aghting north of Kiev on Wed-reported, was the discovery of a vided by yesterday's middaynesday where, however; Moscow ray to kill discase germs, the de- new method of aerial Soviet communique
Nazi drive was sign of a
PRINCE CHICHIBU ARRIVED reports say the checked and severe defeats in-defence and the design of a rocket IN SAIGON AT MIDDAY YES- flicted on two German infantry aeroplane that would travel
at TERDAY IN A SPECIAL MILI- divisions.
six miles a second and mightTARY PLANE FROM TOKYO make a visit to the moon possible. AS THE PERSONAL EMISSARY
In the Leningrad sector there is no news of any important change.
The situation between Smolensk and Gomel, where the Russians are counter-attacking on a 200- mile front. has become somewhat confused.
No further reliable news has boon received in London about the situation
Ukraine, in the where the Germans still appear to be trying to cross the Onio per,
REPORTS HAVE BEEN RF-
A supplement to yesterday's CEIVED OF A GERMAN COUN-midday Soviet communique says TER-ATTACK SOUTH-EAST successful resistance is being OF GOMEL BUT THESE LACK made to the Rumanian troops on CONFIRMATION FROM SOVIET|the approaches to Odessa. SOURCES.
Germans Pushed Back
If they are true, important de- velopments one way or the other may be expected in the next two or three days.
AL
On the whole, therefore, there has been, apart from Murmansk,
in
ers,
serve
their country I am not prepared to accept the Oxford Group as a religious organisation."
Two members raised protests. Sir William Allen (Cons.) spoke of the "persecution of the Oxford Groun" and another member gave - notice that he will raise the mat- ter again.-Reuter
V
CONVERSATIONS AT
THE VATICAN
Mr. Myron Taylor. United
To carry out his electrical reOF THE EMPEROR TO "KEEP States Special Envoy, had another with the search work Matthews lived in UP THE SPIRITS: OF JAPANESE conversation yesterday
Papal Secretary of State, Cardinal a closely guarded bungalow on SOLDIERS IN EXILE." the top of a Welsh mountain 700
Prince Chichibu formally visited Maglione, in Vatican City follow- foot above sea leval.
the Governor-General
the ing his talk with the Pope. He had permission to tap the afternoon, while presumably he Next week Mr. Taylor will take residence at Flor- electric grid system for power. will start keeping up the soldiers' up his usual
ence. Reuter. An engineer by profession, Mat- spirits, to-day--Reuter. thews was best known as pioneer in radio and sound film production and as an inventor.
The
Radio Pioneer
possibilities of wireless
no significant change as yet on telephony early attracted him and the Russian front in the last 24 in 1911, at Cardiff, he succeeded hours.
in establishing wireless telephonic communication with an nero- plane one and a half miles away and travelling at what then was considered the remarkable speed of 60 miles an hour.
"Sooner Or Later” At various points in the large central sector the Russians re- Leningrad holds out, as deter- port further
advances and suc-mined as ever, and it is perhaps
that German
He also sent the first press mes- cesses.
point General significant one
pro-
from Yeremenko on Wednesday push-paganda is now preparing the sage by radio telephone ed the Gerinans back 12 miles German people not to expect its Newport to the newspaper "West-
ern Mail" at Cardiff. and recaptured 10 villages.
rapid fall.
His researches, it was reported, The Taas agency reports that
sub- to detect during the last 24 hours, 12.000 The German radio in its latest included means Germans were killed at Vilikle talk said: "It makes no difference marines 30 miles away.
He got his nickname of "death Luki, which is 125 mijes, north-whatever to the strategic situa- west of Smolensk. ·
tion in general whether Lenin-ray" from an experiment with a These terrific losses on the part grad falls sooner or later." ray that would stop acroplane and
motorcar engines.
of the Germans show the violence Reuter.
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Winning The Air
His aerial defence scheme was
to "mine" the air. Rockets that could reach a height of 30,000 feet in four and a half seconds would contain a number of para- chutes to which, by means of thin
steel wires, bombs would be at-
tached.
He served throughout the South
twice.Router.”
African War and was wounded
RETURNS A PRISONER
30,000
GERMANS
LOST IN GREAT
BATTLE
AT
KIEV
THIRTY THOUSAND Germans were lost before Kiev, according to the secretary of the Central Ukrainian Communist Party, writing in the Moscow newspaper "Prayda” yester- day.
The 44th, 95th and 299th Infantry Divi- sions and other big units were completely routed, he added.
German losses in armoured equipment were not large. Soviet artillery destroyed some 23 Ger- man tanks, 72 lorries and 11 AA. guns.
Midnight Communique
The following is the text of the Soviet midnight.communique issued by the Soviet Information Violent fighting is reported Bureau by the German Bows agency to "On Sept. 11 our troops stub have developed on Wednesday bornly fought the enemy along In the area north of, Klev, in the entire front,
which two German divisions |--“Our air force, in cooperation. are said to be involved with land troops, dealt blows to Hans Betram, who crashed near
One division is claimed by the enemy panzer troops, infantry and Wyndham, on the west coast of Germang to have broken up Soviet artillery and destroyed aircraft on Australia, after a flight from Ger-units in this battle. Into isolated his aerodromes. many, In 1932, is again in the groups, and captured a large-sized "On Sept. 9, 81 German planes Commonwealth this time as town, making 1,200 prisoners, were destroyed in air combats, by major in the Luftwaffe, among similar measures of success being A.A. fire, and on aerodromos. We prisoners of war from the Mid-attributed to the second German lost 41 planes."-Reuter.
V dle East.
division.
Odessa Carnage
BOOM IN BEES
He and his companion landed at Singapore on April 28, 1932, in the course of the flight to Australia.
Meanwhile the Italian news- Since the war the number of They were reported missing after leaving Kupang, and a land and paper "Amrosiono" writes: "Odessa bees kept in Britain has risen by air search was organised in Aus-is one of the most terrible battle- a half, tralia.
flelds in history.AVCAM
People are keeping bees for A note was found stating that "The ground is covered with proft and to make up for the the aviators were multing for land, the bodies of horses and other shortage of sugar, using a flout from their seaplane animals, overturned lorries, aban- Sworms are now worth twice. -as-a-boat-They were subsequent-doned guns and motionless tanks, as much as before the war, Honey ly discovered by aborigines from The cries of the wounded are and beeswax are fetching from: the Drysdale mission station and louder than machine-guns and fifty to one hundred per cent. rescued,
more;: Ibomb explosions."-Reuter,
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