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Indications Of Orderly Soviet Withdrawal At Kiev

Loss Serious But Far From Fatal

IT WOULD BE IDLE, WRITES ANNALIST, TO DENY THAT THE LOSS OF KIEV IS A SERIOUS BLOW TO RUSSIA.

The destruction and wreckage of this beautiful old town is a loss to civilisation, but it is far from being a knock-out blow either to the Soviet forces in general or to those of Marshal Budenny in particular.

It shows that if a determined commander is prepared to pay the price, he can achieve very considerable successes, but the

MR.

price at Kiev must have been ap- FIREWORKS

pallingly high and the question is bound to #UINO SOGNET or Intere How often will the Germans be able to afford it?

oach

With the conquest of strong position a new one seems

to rear itself before the

AND STAFF

The success of a bomb- Gering attack depends on appear which show the same many people, and not

man advance and new armics

undaunted resolution of those least on the

armament

of officer-"Mr. Fireworks"

who have falien back after Inflicting the maximum punishment on the enemy.

German Figures

as he is sometimes called -and his staff of armour- ers. They not only pre- mans seized the moment of the pare for action the bombs capture of Kiev to publish their and guns, the bomber's

It is significant that the

Ger-

Arst detailed list of alleged losses

campaign. Although 400.000

Plying at times less than 100ft from the ground a strong force of Blenheim aircraft of the R.A.F. Bomber Command delivered a daylight attack upon two great power stations near Cologne on August 12. One of the targets was Fortuna Power Station and this photograph shows how the pilote flew their aircraft almost at ground level to press home the attack. Photo shows a gener- al view of bomb bursts on the target photographed from an attacking aircraft.

IRAN'S CABINET

RECONSTITUTED

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent)

in the first three months of the offensive and defensive SEVEN NEW Ministers are included in

but weapons,

also its the reconstituted Iranian Cabinet which the are rogarded by experts to be varied collection of pyro- Prime Minister, Mr. Foroughi, presented to

casualties are admitted, the figures

ridiculously low, and it is evident that the High Command waited

smoke flares, technics

for some success to sugar the flame floats, sea markers. Parliament. pill before they dured to make and signal cartridges.

any announcement.

There is no further news as

to the fighting round Leningrad

The armourer has one of the

The remaining four Ministers were in the make-shift Cabinet formed after the cessa- or in the vicinity of Smolensk. most fascinating jobs on a bombertion of Persian military resistance, and the Further south, the Germans apics in civilian life are often at- most important of the new Ministers are:--

pear to be aiming at Rostov in

station. Men who were mechan-

of

the

some tracted to it, but the mouth of the Don, but Khar- kov is more likely to be the next most expert armourers were once important target as it would thre-clerks, shop assistants, ten the whole of the Donetz Business men. They work --Reuter.

SWEETIE PIE TO MARRY

Or busin-

Foreign Affairs: Ali Sohaill, in shifts fermerly Minister of the Interior from the return of the aircraft in and one-time Ambassador to the dawn to the take-off in the Kabul; dusk. Their first job is to exam-

ine any faults in arinumont that War: General Ahmed Naklje- may be reported by the crews van, whom the Shah dismissed when they lund. During the from the War Ministry and threw morning the armourers examine into prison when the cease-fire the guns, the bomb racks, and order was given; then all the rest of the aircraft's

NAVAL REPAIRS IN U.S.

THE NAVY DEPARTMENT IN WASHINGTON LAST NIGHT: ANNOUNCED THAT TWELVE BRITISH WARSHIPS, INCLUD- ING THREE BATTLESHIPS, HAVE BEEN IN UNITED STATES PORTS, IN ADDITION TO THOSE MENTIONED A DAY OR TWO AGO.

All twelve have now left again. They were the battleships Rè- solution, Malaya and Rodney, the auxiliaries, Canton, Southern Prince, Montclare, Bulofo and Launia, the corvettes Tulip and Clarkia the destroyer Richmond and the armed merchant cruiser Aurania.-Reuter.

18B Prisoners Stay Another Year

THE GOVERNMENT took power yesterday to

armament. One of the armour- Interior: General Amanolah hold for another year 762 people detained under er's jobs is to help the air gunner Jahanbani, who was educated in Defence Regulation 18B. to harmonize his multiple guns so Russia and whom the Shah two that they make the right cone of years ago, in a moment of rage, fire.

dismissed from the Ministry of Industry and deprived of his gen- Later in the day the armourer¦eralship; tests the gun turrets and loads

Sweetie Pie, or as she is formally known in pri- vate life Sister Lilian the ammunition in magazine pans Educationi Dr. Issa Sadiq, Mary Gutteridge, is to be and belts. He gives special at-educated at Cambridge, Paris and married.

tention to the bomb racks and tests them with dummy bombs to

Columbia University.

Sister Gutteridge is the Stock- make sure that the release cat- The new Cabinet is regarded as ton-on-Tees girl who, at the out-ches are working properly. The politically strong. The two emis- break of war, volunteered for bombs must be fused before they sartes, sent by the Government service became ♫ Florence are loaded, a task which might be to the ex-Shan at Isfahan, have Nightingale to the wounded men thought dangerous but is entire now returned bearing a letter in in the retreat to Dunkirk.

ly safe in the hands of these well which the ex-Shah 'tedes all his She saw the ship on which trained men. Just before the property in Iran to the Iranian she and her ̋patlanta Were to be take-off the safety pins are re-people. evacuated Buhk, "and for three moved and handed to the bomb- daya she tended them ashore. Jaimer. Miss Gutteridge, who was posted

HE STILL RETAINS HIS ENORMOUS. WEALTH -DE-

to Palestine after Dunkirk, is to As the aircraft taxi to the end POSITED IN FOREIGN BANKS, be married at St. George's Cathe-of the runway the armourers stand MOSTLY IN AMERICA, AND dral, Jerusalem, to Superinten on the edge of the flying field to THIS IS ESTIMATED BY SOME dent James Loftus Otway, of the watch the take-off. They know IRANIANS TO TOTAL NEARLY Tribal Guard, Aden, and former-that their day's work is about to £45,000,000-REUTER. ly of the CID. at Jerusalem. be tested on the enemy and that

if there should be anything wrong. with the bomb release gear, or a gun should Jam, the first call

AUSTRALIAN BANKS after the roturn in the morning

CUT INTEREST

will be for the

armourer. If

he has one regret it is that he the never gets the chance to see actual results of his work. Не

As from yesterday, the fixed would like to see the bombs burst-

ing on German factories and

GREETINGS TO THE KING OF GREECE

Their Majesties the King and deposit rates of Australian banks chipyards, and the guns which he Queen drove to Euston Station to have been reduced by a further has cleaned and tended bringing meet King George of Greece on six pence por annum making on down an enemy Oghter, But his his arrival in London last night. aggregate reduction of 15 shillings reward comes when the gunner, per cent. since the outbreak climbing stiffly from his turret in The Duke and Duchess of Kent. the morning, tells him that the Mr. Winston Churchill, Mr. An- The new rates are three months, Brothings worlded perfectly; or thony Eden, and other members of 1% per cent; six months, 14 per when the observer reports that Government were also preselit. cent one year, 2 per cent, and the bombs dropped without a large crowd welcomed the Greek two years, 24 per cent.-Reuter, hitch.

King with cheers-Reuter.

the war.

This was the effect of amotion moved in the House of Commons by the Under-Secretary to the Home Office.

The whole operation of the

“I carmot see any evidence that Emergency Powers Act is extend this man was a danger to the genoral safety and security of the The Under Secretary said: "It is realm.

ed for one year.

I am not able to give M.Ps the twelve months in gaal before he a great pain and grief to me that Mr. Maxton said one man was detailed information upon which got to the tribunal. Immediately these people have been detained, he came before the tribunal they

"But they will see that where recommended his release: you are detaining peryong-with-. out charge, It la unfair to pass on to anyone the grounda *, -of. suspicion, for it is only suspicion upon which they are being 'hold.

Foreign Controle

BABIES IN A

Altogether, 1,770 orders for TRUNK

detention had been made.

Of the 762 still detained, 202 were members of organisations

WHEN EVA KIRBY, AGED 28, subject to foreign influence,

Mr. Lees Smith (Soc., Keighley) CHARWOMAN, OF WALCOTT said: "It is not a criminal offence. STREET, HULL, WAS SENTEN- to have been a Fascist, though you CED TO 10 MONTHS' IMPRI may be a potential danger in time SONMENT AT YORK ASSIZES ON THE CHARGE OF MANJ- of war.

"They are not the kind of SLAUGHTER OF HER FEMALE people we want to have wan- CHILD, IT WAS STATED THAT, dering about in time of invasion. CHILDREN PLAYING IN AN That is why this special power EMPTY HOUSE FOUND THE BODIES OF THREE BABIES IN lo necessary.”

A TRUNK

Why In Prison ? Mr. Maxton (1[LP, Bridgton) sald of the case against Captain Ramsay, M.P.; "I have read the thing fairly didanly and Ioan boo nothing in the evidence that leads me to think that he “ought to ba shut. In a prison. (Laugh- ter.)

Kirby, who formerly lived in tho, house, said she put the baby the concerned in the charge in trunk when she found it was doad, but denied any know lodge of the other two.

The "police described her as quiet inoffensive woman very fond of children.