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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 16, 1941.

FURIOUS BATTLES ALONG DNIEPER

(By Reuter's Correspondent in Moscow)

THE LOSS OF KREMENCHUG. BY THE SOVIET TROOPS MEANS THAT THE GER- MANS HAVE AT LEAST AT ONE POINT, MADE A CROSSING OF THE DNIEPER.

The Soviet Command will naturally look on the event as they have done in other cases, namely in terms of the great effort and ex- penditure of material which it has cost the enemy to gain this advance.

It is now three weeks since the Germans reached Dnieper and battle for each attempt- ed crossing place has been a furious battle between artillery and dive-bombers on both sides.

Britain's Oldest Man Dies

Britain's oldest man. Mr. Alfred Charles Nunez Arnold, died yesterday, aged 112 years, at the Liverpool convalescent home at Woolton.

German artillery and Bombers

tive

have been striving to silence the Soviet guns and create # relatively safe area in which bridgeheads could be established and held

Above Kremenchug. the banks of the Dnieper are fairly steep and very picturesque, while be- low the town the scenery becomes less interesting.

The town itself has no special architectural features. It is more important as an industrial centre, having a number of flour mills,

factories tobacco

and various other smaller industries, depend- ing on the rich agricultural land which stretches away on all sides.

Town Wrecked

"JUST A SHAVE"

IS OFF

"No shaving" notices have appeared on bar- ber shops in some Kent towns. Shaving with- out a haircut does not

pay.

"I have been asked for only six shaves this week," said a barber at Bexley.

"All the young men are in the Forces. The older men shave them- selves.

"We can't afford to pay for the hot water needed for the fow shaves ordered with- out haircutting or shampoo.

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FRENCHMEN'S

ADVENTURES

After so many days of battling for the town in which the Soviet troops had ample time to wreck any plant of value to the Ger- mans, its loss can safely be con-

Two French sergeants who seiz- sidered as meaning no inmediate ;ed a German 'plane on a guarded gain to the enemy except from a airfield in strategic standpoint.

Occupied France and flew to Hampshire, are now train- ing at a camp in the South of Eng- land with members of the Free French Air Force.

He was a keen student of you! and attributed his long life and good health to the study of yog and "moderation in all things." Mr. Arnold who was left

an orphan at an early age, was brought up by an uncle in Lon-

Kremenchug is a railway cen- don. He was first destined to be tre from which two lines run, the an operatic singer, a contempor- first to Poltava, 65 miles to the ary of Jenny Lind.

north-east, and to Kharkov, and He then took

journalism the

They flew to the French coast, second to Bakhmach and

boat managed to seize a fishing touring the world and working Briansk.

Soviet troops are fighting aand, although one had never seen He was war correspondent in dogged action to prevent the Ger- the sea before, sailed to England, were picked up near Ply- three wars, and found himself mans following up their seizure They in many tight corners. He, of Kremenchug by any further mouth. spoke German, Dutch, Spanish advance which would aim at # and Portuguese and sionally heard on the B.B.C.

up

for many newspapers.

was

He was presented with

ITQVC-

recruits Other

to the Free occa development of a pincer

arrived Force have and French Air ment through Charnigov

Tahiti, Saigon, Morocco, two Kremenchug and directed towards from

and Martinique.---British

cigars by King Edward VI when the valuable prize of Kharkov,- Dakar he was Prince of Wales, had coffee Reuter. with Disraeli, and tea with Char-

les Dickens.

Mr. Arnold, until recently, was ving in St. Pancras Hospital in London, but was evacuated to Liverpool during the Battle of London. He celebrated his 112th birthday two months ago.-Reuter.

NEUTRALITY

Wireless.

MOSCOW'S AIR DEFENCES

THE FEW GERMAN 'planes which have thus far managed to break through Moscow's

ACT REVISION outer defences have been greeted by a bar-

DISCUSSED

rage such as Berlin rarely managed to send up, said Mr. Dennis McAvoy, Columbia Broadcasting System Correspondent, in a THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA radio talk from Moscow yesterday.

MR. RAYBURN, SPEAKER OF

TIVES, STATED "AT-APRESS

YESTERDAY"THAT' REVISION

CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON He added: “The traveller from other OF THE NEUTRALITY ACT Wartime capitals is amazed by the lack of WAS DISCUSSED BY LEADERS damage here for only a careful search reveals CONFERENCE WITH PRESI where any German bombs have fallen.

IN THE LEGISLATURE ATU A

DENTROOSEVELT AT THE

WHITE': HOUSE? YESTERDAY,

BUT NO CONCLUSIONS WERE | ・ "Night fighters have accounted Assigned To Roof

REACHED.

for many of the Nazi losses thus

"Most of them are assigned to Senator Rayburn did not dis-far and daily the defences of Mos- close details of the discussion but cow are growing stronger. Ger roofs and specially treated gaunt-. ansivering a question said: "There man raids have thus far been inlets and hoods are distributed to has been a lot of talk about it !!* effectual and the long promised air them along with tongs to pick-up

He declared that President blitzkreig appears to have been incendiary bombs. Roosevelt would send a message to Indefinitely postponed.

Congress on Thursday on the sub-There is only ceaseless labour "For more than 10 years there ject of new Lease and Lend appro- born of the determination to pro-has been a special. newspaper in priations which informed sources, tect the lives and the physical ap Moscow devoted to features and said would amount to about $0,- pearance of Moscow and to defend articles on air raid precautions, It 000,000,000.

its ground to the last....

is published by a society called The Neutrality Law among other "Every large apartment house the Anti-Air Raid and Poison Gus things, forbids the arming of mer or group of smaller houses has a Society. For years the public and have been treated to a systematic chantmen engaged in commerco commandant or manager with any foreign countries after when the siren sounds announcing campaign of instruction in the arts the President has proclaimed that a German raid all able-bodied of disposing of fire-bombs,^^de- Fastate of war exists between these men in the building without ex-contamination wearing gas masks

nationsReuter

ception must report for dut and Orst-aid technique."Router.

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