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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 12, 1941.
Main Fronts
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
MATTHEWS
The death was an-
BACKWARD IN COMING FORWARD
Of the 10 Italian divisions which the Germons required on the Eastern Front, it is understood only three have been despatched and only one is in the fighting line operating Behind Germon shock troops.
The remaining divi- sions are expected to be despatched shortly at the urgent request of the Germans. Reuter.
nounced from Swansea PRINCE development does not seem to af-nesday where, however, Moscow Valley yesterday of M. H.
Nazi drive was fect the fighting in the main Rus-reports say the
defeats in- checked and severe sian centres.
flicted on two German Infantry divisions.
Detailed information on the latest developments were not pro- vided by yesterday's midday Soviet communique.
No further reliable news has been received in London about
per.
Grinde 11 - Matthews,
"Death Ray | known as Matthews."
CHICHBU
WAS IN SAIGON
Among his researches, it was
miles a
OXFORD GROUP STATUS
Within the meaning of the British National Ser- vice Act, the Oxford Group is not accepted by Government as a religiou organisation.
This was stated, at question time in the Commons yesterday by the Labour
Ernest Minister, Mr. Bevin, when answering a question about the number of lay preach- ers of military age who were ex- empted from military service, Mr. Bevin sald over 500
lay preachers were exempted or re- served.
When asked whether he regard- ed the Oxford Group 'as coming within the category of lay preach- ers, Mr. Bevin replied: "No. Within the meaning of the Nation- al Service Adt and from the view point of their liability to *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 Oxford the "persecution of the Groun" and another member gave. notice that he will raise the mat- ter again.--Reuter.
V
CONVERSATIONS AT
Mr.
In the Leningrad sector there the situation In the Ukraine, reported, was the discovery of a PRINCE CHICHIBU ARRIVED JA no news of any
where the Germans still appear ray to kill disease germs, the de- Important change.
to be trying to cross the Dinle sign of a new method of aerial IN SAIGON AT MIDDAY · YES--
THE VATICAN The situation between Smolensk
defence and the design of a rocket TERDAY IN A SPECIAL MILI- the Russians A and Gomel, where
supplement to yesterday's aeroplane
that would travel at TARY PLANE FROM TOKYO
Myron Taylor, United are counter-attacking on a 200-midday Soviet communique says six
second and might AS THE PERSONAL EMISSARY resistence is mile front, has become somewhat successful
being make a visit to the moon possible. OF THE EMPEROR TO "KEEP States Special Envoy, had anothe
with the UP THE SPIRITS OF JAPANESE conversation yesterday confused.
made to the Rumanian troops on
To carry out his electrical re-
'SOLDIERS IN EXILE.”
Papal Secretary of State, Cardinal REPORTS HAVE BEEN RE-the approaches to Odessa.
search work Matthews lived in CEIVED OF A GERMAN COUN- On the whole, therefore, there
Prince Chichibu formally visited Maglione, in Vatican City follow- a closely guarded bungalow on
the Governor-General in the ing his talk with the Pope, TER-ATTACK SOUTH - EAST has been, apart from Murmansk,
the top of a Welsh mountain 700
afternoon, while presumably
Next week Mr. Taylor will take OF GOMEL BUT THESE LACK no significant change as yet on
feet above sea level.
will start keeping up the soldiers' up his usual residence at Flor- CONFIRMATION FROM SOVIET the Russian front in the last 24
ence. Reuter. spirits to-day.--Reuter. SOURCES.
Germans Pushed Back
hours.
"Sooner Or Later"
في
He had permission to tap the electric grid system for power.
An engineer by profession, Mat- thews was best known as Leningrad holds out, as deter-pioneer in radio and sound film mined as ever, and it is perhaps production and as an inventor. significant that German pro- the
Radio Pioneer
If they are true, important de- velopments one way or the other may be expected in the next two or three days.
At various points in the large paganda is now preparing central sector the Russians re- German people not to expect its
The possibilities of wireless port further advances and suc- rapid fall. cesses. At one point
The German radio in its latest telephony early attracted him and Yeremenko on Wednesday push-talk said: "It makes no difference in 1911, at Cardiff, he succeeded ed the Germans back 12 miles whatever to the strategic situa-in establishing wireless telephonic with an aero- and recaptured 10 villages. tion in general whether Lenin-communication
later." -- plane one and a half miles away and travelling at what then was considered the remarkable speed
General
The Taas agency reports that grad falls during the last 24 hours, 12,000 Reuter. Germans were killed at Vilikio Luki, which is 125 miles north- west of Smolensk.
These terrific losses on the part of the Germans show the violence of the actions undertaken by Mar- shal Timoshenko's armies.
Kiev Clash
sooner
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Shanghai Americans and a few who arrived recently from Japan left The Germans claim violent evening for the United States. fighting north of Kiev on Wed-International News Service.
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of 60 miles an hour.
He also sent the first press mes- sage by radio telephone from Newport to the newspaper "West- ern Mail" at Cardiff.
His researches, it was reported, to detect sub- included means marines 30 miles away.
He got his nickname of "death
ray" from an experiment with a
ray that would stop aeroplane and
motorcar engines.
*Winning The Air
His aerial defence scheme was
to "mine" the air. Rockets that
he
30,000 GERMANS
LOST IN
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 “Pravda” yester day.
The 44th, 95th and 299th Infantry Divi- could reach a height of 30,000 *sions and other big units were completely
feet in four and a half seconds
would contain a number of para-routed, he added. chutes to which, by means of thin! steel wires, bombs would be at- tached.
He served throughout the South African War and was wounded twice. Reuter.
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German losses in armoured, Midnight Communique equipment were not large. Soviet artillery destroyed some 23 Cer- man tanks, 72 lorries and 11 AA guns...
"The following is the text of the Soviet midnight communique issued by the Soviet Information
• Violõht "fighting is reported Bureau
by the German news agency to "On Sept. 11 our troops stub Have developed on Wednesday bornly fought the enemy along In the area (north of: Kiev, in the entire front.
which two German divialona "Our air force, in cooperation are said to be involved,
with land troops, dealt blows to
One division is claimed by the enemy panzer troops, infantry and Germans to have broken up Soviet artillery and destroyed aircraft on units in this battle into isolated his aerodromes, a
groups and captured a large-sized "On Sept. 0, 81 German planes. town, making 1,200 prisoners, were destroyed in air combats, by similar measures of success beim A.A. fire and on aerodromes. We SOME 500 JAPANESE WOMEN attributed to the second German lost 41 planes. Reuter. AND CHILDREN EMBARKED' division, ON THE "KITANO MARU" AT BATAVIA YESTERDAY FOR EVACUATION FROM THE NEI,
Odessa Carnage
TOKYO NATIONAL SERVICE DEGREE
The vessel⠀⠀ will leave 09. Meanwhile the Italian.newg" soon as formalities regarding paper "Amrosiano" writes: "Odessa The Draft of an Imperial Ordin passport and foreign exchange re-is one of the most terrible battle ance was approved in Tokyo yes gulations are completed,
fields in history.
terday by the National Mobilisa Earlier this week about the "The ground is covered with tion Committee making Japanes same number of Japanese em- the bodies of horses and other males from 14 to 40 years, barked on the ship at Sourabaya, animals, overturned lorries, aban- females from 14 to 25 liable fo so after her departure more than doned gung and motionless tables, national service,ENAT
are Another Ordinance is for 1,000 Japanese will have been The cries of the wounded evacuated from the N.E.I.-Rea- louder than machine-guns, and mobilisation of doctors, dentist Iter,
bomb explosions."--Reuter, land nurses-Reuter,
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