VON LEEB'S LENINGRAD BID Fighting Rages Night And Day
BRITISH
ENTER TEHERAN
Following a conference
of the British and Rus sian commanders, British and Russian Staff officers
Violent Russian Counter-Attacks
:
THE GERMAN, COMMANDER, GENERAL RITTER VON LEEB,
IS MAKING A DESPERATE NEW EFFORT TO SMASH HIS WAY INTO LENINGRAD,
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SHOT DEAD
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA" MAIL") The murder in the
Day and night fighting is raging and it is admitted in Berlin that morning of Chen Chang- the Russian troops are striking back.
The Nazi official news agency yesterday ITALIAN. entered Teheran yester- spoke of "obstinate Soviet resistance with
day to arrange for billet-constant counter-attacks in which heavy SHIP FOR
ing:
THE BRITISH
CAME FROM THE SOUTH AND THE RUSSIAN AND WEST.
tanks are being used."
ADVANCE The agency claims that despite this, new terri- FROM EAST torial gains have been made by the German forces in which "a large number of Russians were cap- tured"
Those coming from the east travelled by train to within five. miles of Teheran, whence they marched into the city.
Most were armed with auto matic rifics.. Others drew heavy machine-guns mounted on small wheels. They are now. encampest in an Iranian machine-gun - factory.
New Shah's Decision
The new Shah has decided to restore to the nation his father's property which includes much wealth, according to newspaperį reports published in Teheran yes- terday.
The reports add that the new Shah conveyed this decision to his Ministers immediately after tak- ing the oath, Reuter.
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JACK SHERIDAN PRISONER
HIS MANY FRIENDS HERE AND IN SHANGHAI WILL BE GLAD TO LEARN THAT A CARD HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM SERGEANT JA.C K SHERIDAN OF THE AJJ.F. INDI- CATING THAT HE. IS ALIVE AND WELL, ALTHOUGH IN A PRISON CAMP IN GERMANY.
The actual situation is not clear as the official Soviet communiques continue to deal in general terms with the nature of the operations, merely stating that "the were engaged along the front."
enemy whole
It stems clear, however, that . intensification of the fighting in the Leningrad arta is primarily, the outcome of violent. Russian counter-attacks, which have! thrown the Germans back at one point, according to semi-
distance of nine miles.
JAPANESE
PROTEST
TO S.M.C.
official Moscow, reportą. for A The Japanese con- Little news has come from the sulate-general in Shang- Ukraine front in the Kiev region, hai on Wednesday made
to indicate that which is taken
to the the thrusts north and south of the representations Ukrainian capital have
been
Municipal Council calling checked and that the situation is more or less stabilised.
that body's attention to the recurrence of terroris- tie activities recently, ac- cording to the Japanese press.
German
Pnieper Attack. London quarters are chiefly anxiou's regarding the attack across the Lower Daleper, concerning which the Germans have made important claims, and on which Moscow, has, thus far. preserved..silence.
The latest German claim la that their troops have reached tho Parekop паск of the Crimea, which, if true, would probably involve the collapse of the Russian defencesyn, the Crimea Peninsula.
No confirmation of the German claims is forthcoming, however. Reuter and, International News Service.
Sheridan is a member of a well- known Irish family at Shanghai and was wounded at Bardia in the early stages of the fighting in the Near East.
took Thereafter he part in the Grecian campaign and nothing had been heard from himi since April last.
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LIBERAL
The press says the following were drawn to the attention. of the Council authorities:-
The
of increasing numbers Japanese who have fallen victims to armed attacks by terrorists who aimed at the indiscriminate sassination of Japanese military officers and men and policemen, as well as civilians;
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The Municipal Police should pay due consideration to mea. sures for preventing these ter- rorist operations;
The machinery of the Muni- cipal Police, should be revised on the basis of, Japanese considera- tions and the position and au- thority of the Japanese Special be consolidated.Reuter,
TRIBUTE TO Deputy Commissioner should PREMIER
He writes that the Australian
SPEAKING AT THE ANNUAL troops in the German prison camps. are doing well, but are in need of CONFERENCE OF THE LIBER- sweaters, socks and tobacco and AL also hard chocolate, as a supple- ment to their diet.
NATIONAL COUNCIL ÎN LONDON YESTERDAY. LORD SIMON SAID IT WÁS,IMPOS- SIBLE TO EXAGGERATE THE This information may serve as a guide to any who intend sending SIGNIFICANCE OF THE JOINT SIGNING OF THE ATLANTIC, the prisoner-of-war
CHARTER.
parcels to camps.
SPECIAL CONSTABLES ON PARADE
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Japanese
Leaving Malaya
In a reference to Mr. Chur- chill, Lord Simon said there, was never a more striking example of wise statesmanship than when the Prime Minister, after Hitler's attack treacherous
on Russia,
Mrs. Ken Tsumuri, wife went to the microphone the same evening and told the world that of the Japanese consul- Russia was from that moment Britain's close ally.
general in Singapore, is among about 100 Japan- ese (mainly those affect- ed by the freezing orders) who are returning to Japan aboard the NYK.
V
Reuter.
COLLABORATION
IN FRANCE
A SESSION OF THE FRENCH liner "Hakone Maru."
THE SPECIAL CONSTABULARY AND GERMAN CHAMBERS OF
WERE INSPECTED YESTERDAY COMMERCE BEGAN YESTER- The vessel arrived in Singapore AT THE POLICE TRAINING DAY IN PARIS AND WILL LAST yesterday bringing 77 Japanese Bombay and SCHOOL BY THE HON. MR. J. UNTIL SEPTEMBER 21, STATES evacuees from
PENNEFATHER-EVANS A PARIS DESPATCH TO THE Colombo. COMMISSIONER OF THE OFFICIAL GERMAN NEWS HONG KONG POLICE FORCE. AGENCY,
The "graduates" paraded in Purpose of the session, it is stat- shirts and slacks in the compound ed, is to discuss Franco-German of the Training School in the after- collaboration in the organisation noon and were at the conclusion of commerco.
Japanece olrcles in Singapore maintain that Mrs. Teumurl'a trip was planned long ago and was accelerated owing to hor « son'bljineas at home and is not
due to the political tenglan....”
of the Inspection addressed by Delegates, taking part will be It: is expected that 600 Japanesa the Hon. Commissioner of Police given an opportunity to visit Paris evacuces from Malaya will sail in who was accompanied by Mr. and a trip to Nantes, where the the official evacuation ship "Tuzo T. F. Lo, Deputy Commissioner harbour works will be inspected, Meru, expected in Singapore on of the, Special Constabulary:
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BRITAIN
I.
chen, assistant manager of the Chinese Thermos Flask Co., marred the otherwise comparative calm in Shanghai on the tenth anniversary of the Mukden Incident yester- day
three
on
a
THE 8,000 TON» ITALIAN LINER "LEME? WHICH WAS Chen was shot dead by AMONG AXIS SHIPS REQUISI unknown gunmen who fired TIONED BY THE UNITED him while he was riding in
The assailants STATES WILL IT WAS RE-rickshaato office. PORTED YESTERDAY, SHORT-Lescaped after seeing their victim LY BE TRANSFERRED TO BRI slump in the ricksha,: dead.
pre- The customary, police TAIN UNDER THE LEASE AND
cautions were taken in Shang- LEND PROCEDURE.
hai yesterday, with barricades and rigorous searches conducted throughout the city and strin- gent cipfow-regulations at night. The United States thus far has]; All movie theatres remained requisitioned about 60 foreign closed all day, for the first time ships. The "Leme!! would-be the since the outbreak of the Sino- first of these to, be transferred to Japanese hostilities in August Britain-Reuters
1937International News Service.
The damage inflicted by her crew before she was requisitioned | is now being repaired.
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