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TERRIFIC GERMAN LOSSES

40 Per Cent. Of

Of Attackers Lost PACIFIC Desperate Fighting KIEV AN

Rages Near Kiev ENORMOUS

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(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

THE SOVIET-GERMAN WAR YESTERDAY ENTERED ON ITS FOURTEENTH WEEK WITH RUSSIA'S SECOND LARGEST CITY, The "New York Times" LENINGRAD, UNDER DIRECT ASSAULT, AND KIEV, THIRD CITY reported yesterday that IN THE U.S.S.R., EVACUATED BY RED ARMY AFTER A DESPERATE the U.S.-Japanese con- AND BLOODY STRUGGLE, WHICH STILL RAGES NEAR THE CITY. versations are virtually at

un-

a standstill as a result of the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull's willingness to depart from his insistence that Japan should have no special status in East Asia.

In addition, Tokyo has not in- dicated that Japan has reversed] her aggressive policy and aban- doned her ambition to controll Chína.

The paper added that reliable: sources state the Government would not come to a settlement with Japan at the expense of China and no further progress In the U.S.-Japanese negotiations is expected until Mr. Wakasugi, the Japanese Minister in Washington,, returns.

The "New York Herald- Tribune" editorially denounces the' appeasement policy, asserting that American public opinion expects that the United States Govern- | ment would not satisfied with anything short of complete re- storation of Chinese administra- tive integrity-Central News.

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TOBRUK PRAISE FOR ODESSA

The Soviet High Command, beyond ad- mitting the evacuation of Kiev, remained as uncommunicative as usual, the communique merely_reiterating that "fighting continued on all fronts throughout the night.”

HOSPITAL

Kiev fell owing to com- plete exhaustion, says a Milan despatch to Berne quoting the war corres- pondent of the newspaper, "Corriere della Sera.”

The town for a week lacked water and food; and the market was almost empty for a month and closed for a week. »

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Russian wounded· ́ ́from the great battle in Eastern Ukraine were largely transported to Kiev where hospitals were full. Schools, churches, theatres, cinemas, hotels

with wounded.

In London, the Exchange Telegraph, and private houses tvere alled

Praise for their gal-quoting the Moscow newspaper "Red Star, lantry was wirelessed

official organ of the Soviet Army, reported from besieged British

yesterday that the German attackers of Len to besieged Russian

ingrad have lost more than 40 per cent of troops, the B.B.C. re-

their original strength. ported last night.

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The report said that

The German High Command claims ot

that with the British soldiers

German troops at the Sea of Azov, the Tobruk wirelessed Crimen has been severed from the Russian mainland. There is greetings to the Rus-

confirmation of this

report sian defenders be- sieged at Odessa prais- ing their gallantry. International. News Service.

TO DEATH AMERICAN

AIRMEN

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") THE DEATH PENALTY WAS IMPOSED ON ADOLPHE. GUYOT, EX-DEPUTY AND G MEMBER OF THE COMMUNIST YOUTH ORGANISATION, BY THE · PARIS STATE COURT YESTERDAY;

Two other communists were also

IN RUSSIA

sentenced to death, while sentences America's first consign-

were imposed on numerous others,

from any source.

German Threat In Belgium

"Kiev is an enormous hospital.”

Nevertheless, in order to con- quen, the, town, which had been reduced to such conditions, the Germans had, to overcome”: “a belt of concrete forta, minefields, high-tension barbed-wire. ... de- fences and engage in terrible hand-to-hand fighting.

German armoured advance guards after. reaching the centre of the town were repulsed and only after three days fighting were they 'able to conquer Kiev, "in which the population, · even (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") the wounded. had not eaten for

72 hours."-Reuter.

The Germans say more than 150,000. Russian troops are trap-

THREATENING THAT FUR- ped in ring east of Elev and that THER. ASSAULTS WILL BRING thousands were slaughtered." FIVE EXECUTIONS, THE GER-

MAN MILITARY GOVERNOR Significantly, the Germans OF BELGIUM AND NORTHERN-sons at Torhai had been taken admit that "desperate Russian FRANCE POSTED UP A NOTICE hostage as a reprisal for the assas counter-attacks” are continuing: IN BRUSSELS YESTERDAY, sination of two German police. Indicating that the Kiev position

is not höpaitaa, as ~Goebbels' The notice disclosed that 25 per- International News Service.

propaganda has made out.

The Germans also allege

that

the Russian naval base of Sevasto- pol has been "isolated."

The German claim to the cap- ture of the strategic Baltic island of Oesel and the occupa- tion of Arensburg, the capital, has now been qualified by the admission that "a few scattered" garrisons are holding out.

of imprisonment with hard labour ment of warplanes has Meanwhile 60 Russian sailors International News Service. arrived in Russia, and of the Baltic Fleetwere picked

by Swedish war Washington expects the up yesterday arrivals to be followed by waters.

ships from small boats in Swedish,

a steady flow of hundreds

“PRIVATE” LEGION

OF FRENCH

[SPECIAL TO "CHina Mailm of fighting 'planes,

Categorically denying reports

...The sailors, -it- was stated in Stockholm-have been interned, for the duration, i

It is believed they are sur-

that the French Army was fight- Number and type of the, air- Ing the Soviet, a Vichy spokesman craft arriving in Russia is a mill- declared yesterday that the only tary secret, but a small group of vivors of a naval battle between French on the Eastern Front were American mechanics, to instruct the islands of Oesel and Dagoe, members of the "private anti-Soviet ground crews, is reported The men rowed across the Gulf

of Bothr Bolshevist" "Legion.” -al: News Service.--

to have arrived on Soviet #Internation- A soll. Serice.

The New York- correspondent of the Löndun “Dally”. Express" "says that Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of “Treasury, fovealed yesterday that American, financial ald to Russia began a month ago with £2,000,000.

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1,000 ENEMYS PLANES DOWNED (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL T Air Vice-Marshal Andrews; R.A.F., in a broadcast through the BBC yesterday,

The U.S. Treasury advance was stated:More than 1,000 enemy planes have made on the promise of M, No further requests for aid to been shot down by the R.A.F. Oumansky, the Soviet Ambas- Russla have been received, bays between January 1 and end of sador, to deliver the equivalent the New York correspondent of August." International News amount of gold within 90 days.theNew-Chronicle. Special Service,

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