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INFERNO AROUND LENINGRAD Ceaseless Artillery Duels

One Of Deadliest Battles In History

(By Reuter's Resident Correspondent in Moscow) DAY AND NIGHT ARTILLERY DUELS HAVE TURNED THE BATTLEFIELD OUTSIDE LENINGRAD INTO AN INFERNO. THE RUSSIANS AND GERMANS ARE HURLING IMMENSE QUANTITIES OF STEEL AND HIGH EXPLOSIVES AT EACH OTHER'S FORCES MASSED AT THE APPROACHES OF THE CITY.

Units of the Soviet Civil Guard have for three weeks been fighting shoulder to shoul- der with their comrades in the Red Army in ́what must be one of the deadliest battles in- the world's history.

How Civil Guards holding a sub-sector of

FLEET AIR ARM IN

the front drove the Germans back at bayonet ACTION

point was told yesterday in a despatch to the newspaper, "Pravda."

A.R.P. INQUIRY WITNESS IS CHARGED

One of the witnesses who was examined by the A.R.P. Contracts Inquiry Commission during the

week was arrested by the `Police while the Commis- sion were holding a ses- sion in camera

at the Kowloon Hospital,

the river "T" and occupied several:

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PARACHUTE TROOPS

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News advices receiv- ed in London, and quoting Vichy source, advise "treat- ing with reserve" re- ports that Japan and the United States have reached an agreement in principle on Pacific matters.

Inter national News Service.

BULGARIA COMING IN?

The Japanese have used parachute troops in China for the first time.

This was revealed in Chung- king_yesterday by the "Hsin Hua Jih Pao," organ of the Chinese Communist Party, giving details of the Japanese offensive against the 18th Group Army (Chinese. · Communists) west of Peiping.

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Some 100,000 Japanese stated to be attacking the Com- munist¬troops holding the moun- tains on the borders of Shansi and. Hopef-provincesas-

Parachute troops: made..., sur- prise, "raide on bases in the Chinete rear buti saya the "paper "they were - aft m

up..

"The offensive launched August 8 had been expected for the last four months. Since: July, It is stated, the Japanese had been concentrating troops along the four key railways Pel- “THE BULGARIAN COUNCIL: ping-Sulyunu, Peiping-Hankow,-- OF MINISTERS HAS DECIDED Chengting-Taiyuan and the Tun- [THAT THE TIME HAS ARRIVE, þú line.

ED TO PUT THE COUNTRY'S Four Japanese columns in the DEFENCES ON coast by naval aircraft FOOTING, ACCORDING TO A ing a concentric drive from the

An Admiralty com- The Germans had advanced to munique issued in London hamlets. The Civil Guards or- yesterday giving news of ders were to dislodge them. an attack on enemy ship- After the Soviet artillery had ping off the Norwegian prepared the way, silencing one, German strong point after other, the Civil Guards moved up states: to attack in the face of shelling and machine-gun fire that forced them to stick close to the mud in the rain-soaked ground.

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A WARTIME face of stift resistance are mak-

MESSAGE FROM SOFIA TO north, north-east, south-east and

south. Reuter. "Further successful action has VICHY YESTERDAY, been taken by the Royal Navy

A Decree has been issued for the against the enemy's supplies and sea communications with his purpose of suppressing subversive

ARMS OUTPUT. As they reached the German troops on the north Russian front, activities and providing the death lines the Civil - Guards charged

"At dawn on Friday, carrier- penalty for acts of sabotage or es-

The Army Department in borne naval aircraft attacked pionage. with bayonets fixed. The enemy enemy. shipping in the Bodo: area

Men of the 1921 class are to be Washington reports that 10 plants. off the Norwegian coast and mili called to the villages "Y" and "N" were re-tary objectives in the vicinity.

colours to-day. are now producing machine-guos Youths. belonging to the 1922 and as compared with two plants 14 "One enemy supply ship

1923 classes other than students months ago. The output has risen about 2,000 tons

will also be called to the colours: by 46 per cent. since August 1940. Wat and other ships damaged. The Civil Guards went on to force and set on fire and

"An aluminium works was hit an electric their way across the river, dis- power station was also

bombed. regarding the mass of metal pour- ed on them by the German artil-From these attacks all our air-

craft returned safely."—Reuter. lery.

faltered and retreated and

taken.

Mass Of Metal

Soviet guns then opened up and the Civil Guards were sent in to

attack village "P". They

The man, Kwong Wing, head forenian of the Kin Lee firm of cleared the enemy out of it and contractors, was this morning captured much material. charged before Mr. H. G. Sheldon,

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R.A.F. WING

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Undaunted by the German fre IN RUSSIA

K.C., at the Central Magistracy, from three sides they stood firm. with giving a bribe of $2,000 in and consolidated their hold. The NEWS THAT A WING OF THE Décember, 1940. to Mr. J. G. Germans carried out six artillery Campbell, P.WD, Chartered Civil bombardments Engineer with a view to influence 24 hours.

of the village in his conduct as a Government Ser- Twice: German 'planes made vant.

mass attacks,, dropping bombs., The Civil Guards, however,

R.A.F. HAS REACHED RUSSIA HAS CAUSED MUCH SATIS- FACTION. IN THE SOUTHERN' SECTOR OF THE ALLIED FRONT OF WHICH CAIRO IS THE HEADQUARTERS,

Mr. W. A Mackinlay, appear weathered the storm and launch- Civilians as well as the military ing for the prosecution, requesteded a further attack driving the realise how closely the defence of a remand of seven days which was Germans back and freeing the the Middle-Eastern nations, India grauted. Accused was allowed stranglehold on on the village, bail of $20,000.

FINNISH TALKS

WITH GERMANY

Reuter.

DUKE OF KENT

HOME AGAIN

and even Africa.itself, is bound up in the defence of Russia;

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It is felt in Cairo, that other and” not less-striking measures of An- glo-Russian cooperation may be anticipated in the near future. – Reuter,

LEASE AND LEND

An economic delegation from The Duke of Kent has return- Finland" will leave for Germany ed to England from · Canada within the next few days, accord- where he had been visiting u The American Lease and Lend ing to a German official: news number of training establishments procedure will apply henceforth -agency: message from Helsinki to in connection with the Common for importation into India of

Berlin

·wealth -Air - Training plan, states | lubricating oil and associated pro- The Finnish Minister of Indus- the Dominions Office. His tour, ducts from the United States. try and Commerce, M. Tanner, in the course of which he travel- Requisition and handling ......... of will bead the delegation and will led some 15,000 miles, has been these products, will pass through confer with the Reich-Minister of most successful - and widely up- official channels, says Router from Economics, Dr. Funk-Reuter. -1 preciated. Reuter

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