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· THE CHINA MAIL SEPTEMBER 23, 1941.

Rage

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.

Tripoli Shipping Attacked

A series of successful at- tacks have been made on enemy shipping in the re- gion of Tripoli, states the R.AF. Middle East com- munique.

In one of these attacks, carried out by bombers of the Royal Air Force, one large schooner receiv ed several direct hits and the crew immediately abandoned the ship which was left a mass of flames

Another schooner, after being hit, blew up with such terrific aircraft.

force that one of our making the attack was destroy. ed by the blast.

On September 20, one heavily laden merchant ship off Kerkenna was bombed, set on fire and left

It shows that if a determined commander is prepared to pay the price, he can achieve very considerable successes, but the price at Kiev inust have been ap- pallingly high and the question is bound to arise sooner or later, How often will the Germans be able to afford it?

man

new

With the conquest of cach strong position a new one seems to rear itself before the Ger.

advance and

armics appear which show the undaunted resolution of who have fallen back inflicting -the maximum of punishment on the enemy.

German Figures

same thosa

after

Ger-

Flying 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 gheab powersztations near, Cologne

on August 12. One of the targets was Fortuna «Power-Station and this photograph shows how the Photo shows a goner? pilots flew their aircraft almost at ground level to press home the attack.

zał low of bomb bursts on the target.photographed from an attacking Biṛcraft.

IRAN'S CABINET

It is significant that the mans seized the moment of the capture of Kiev to publish their first detailed list of alleged losses in the first three months of the campaign. Although 400,000 casualties are admitted, the figures are regarded by experts to be ridiculously low, and it is evident SEVEN, NEW Ministers are included in that-the High Command watted for some success to sugar the the reconstituted Iranian Cabinet which the | Prime Minister, Mr. Foroughi, presented to "There is no further news asParliament.

RECONSTITUTED

(By Reuter's Special Correspondent)

pill before they dared to

any announcement.

make

to the fighting round Leningrad or in the vicinity of Smolensk.

Further south, the Germans ap- pear to be aiming at Rostov in The remaining four Ministers were in the sinking. An enemy destroyer off the mouth of the Don, but Khar- Tripoli was successfully attacked. kov is more likely to be the next make-shift Cabinet formed after the cessa-

Benghazi was raided on the important target as it would threa- night of September 20/21 by heavy ten the whole of the Donetz Bastion of Persian military resistance, and the

most important of the new Ministers are:-

bombers of the R.A.F., several hits-Reuter. being scored on the central

and

outer moles. From these opera-; tions, two of our aircraft are miss- ing. Reuter.

Low Level Attack

An Air Ministry bulletin sup- plements the news of the attack

V

SWEETIE PIE

on enemy shipping in Tripoli har- TO "MARRY

bour announced in the R.A.F.

Middle East communique.

The extraordinarily low level

Foreign

Sohalli, Affairs: Ali formerly Minister of the Interior one-time Ambassador to

und Kabul;

War: General Ahmed Nakhje- van, whom the Shah dismissed from the War Ministry and threw into prison when the cease-fire order was given;

Sweetie Pie, or as she is from which the attack was den-formally known in pri-Russia and whom the Shah two

vate life

vered is revealed.

IMUNAN SITUATION

EASIER

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CCONEERNING THE MILTEARY SITUATION IN KNORTHERN HUNAN, DR. WANG SAHIH- CHIEH SSAID YESTERDAY

THAT THE JAPANESE HAD FOR THE DRIVE, ABOUT: HALF

MASSED SOME 80,000 TROOPS

OF WHOM ARE NOW ENGAGED

IN ACTUAL FIGHTING.

A fafrly large portion of these troops Dr. Wang added, succeed- ed in landing on the southern bank of the Milo River two days

ago but latest field reports show

ed that the bulk of the Japanese had been beaten back with losses. .The Chinese made a flanking attack on the Japanese on Sunday and the "result appeared to be satisfactory. Central News.

188 Prisoners Stay Another Year

Interior: General Amanolah THE GOVERNMENT took power yesterday to Jahanbani, who was educated in hold for another year 762 people detained under Sister Lilian years ago, in a moment of rage, Defence Regulation 18B.

dismissed from the Ministry leading the attack returned again Mary Gutteridge, is to be industry and deprived of his gen- at dusk and carried out a daring married.

eralship;

The Wing Commander who was

of

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

Education: Dr. Issa Sadiq, educated at Cambridge, Paris and

The whole "operation of the "I cannot see any evidence that Columbia University."

The new Cabinet is regarded as Emergency Powers Act is extend this man was a danger to the general safety and security of the politically strong. The two emis- dd for one year, saries, sent by the Government The Under-Secretary said: "It is realm, to the e-Shah at Isfahan, have a great pain and grief to me that Mr Maxton said one man was now returned bearing a letter in I am not able to give M.Ps the twelve months in gaol before he which the ex-Shah codes all his detailed Information upon which got to the tribunal. Immediately property in Iran to the Iranian these people have been detained, he came before the tribunal they

**But they will see that where recommended his release. people.

STILL RETAINS HIS -youṇBre-detaining persons with-

WEALTH ·ADE÷

attack on an enemy war vessel.

Sister Gutteridge is the Stock- Both attacks wore made from a few feet high.

ton-on-Tees girl who, at the out- The morning attack was press-break of war, volunteered for

became

a Florence ed home through a hail of flakk service from all angles but direct hits Nightingale to the wounded men were made on a liner of more in the retreat to 'Dunkirk. than twenty thousand tons and She saw the chip on which 8,000-ton supply ships.

she and her patients were to be The Wing Commander. describ-! evacuated sunk, and for three ing his second raid, said "We flew days she tended them-ashore, along Tripoli coast just after the Miss Gutteridge, who was posted sun had set. Twilight had nearly to Palestine after Dunkirk, is to HE gone. We saw about a couple of be married at St. George's Cathe- ENORMOUS miles off the two warships one,dral, Jerusalem, to Superinten- POSITED, IN FOREIGN-BANKS, either a small cruiser or a large dent James Loftus Otway, of the MOSTLY IN AMERICA, -AND destroyer, and another a destroyer Tribal Guard, Aden, and former-THIS IS ESTIMATED BY SOME

silhouetted against the sky. The ly of the CLD: at: Jerusalem. larger vessel was playing search- lights on the water on the far side

from us as we approached.

JON LEAVE IN

STATELY HOMES

NAVAL MEN ASHORE ON

IRANIANS "TO/TOTAL NEARLY

£45,000,000.REUTER,

ARMY STUDS PUNCTURE

FIND THEMSELVES, DOMICIL- CAR TYPES

We flew towards her at less than a dazen-feat. Wallets gå our Bomba from short-range and the Fair gunner sprayed her decks from stem to stern. @parka flow from the deck as SHORT LEAVE MAY ASOON pulled up above the ship's maste. The whole calvo had struck ED FOR A WHILE IN ONE OR amidships ||Just below the fun: OTHER OF THE ***STATELY. nel und an 1 türned away, the HOMES OF ENGLAND."..

Soldiers' boot-studs coming observer weaw Beveral bomba Capt. R. W. Blacklock, a liaison adrift in main road route marches bursting it the thip. The des-officer on the welfare side, told a are puncturing many motor car troyer opened fire on: us but Royal Society of Arts audience tyres which wayside garages, busy burst into flames Immediately that the Admiralty was taking with other work, have no time after the attack,

over country houses, to which to repair. "When we were three hundred ratings could go for 48 hours' AWest Country garage owner yards away all lights went out complete rest. while their ships told the "Daily Mirror," "We have on the bombed ship. We headed are in port for refit. Sailors' so had twenty-five puncture Jobs in for home and from ten miles cleties will manage these hostels. three days and twenty-two wore away, flying at sea level. we could

The Admiralty is also requisi- caused by boot-studs of the Army still see columns of smoke rising tioning various buildings, and saf- type, All. I have left to do this from the warship."-British Wire lors Bociotics and philanthropie sort of work is affifte

places for Hayal personnel,

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old boy."

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out charge, It is unfairytoɛpaso

on to anyone" the grounds of suspicion, for it is only cuspicion. upon which they are being hold, j

BABIES

Foreign ControlIN A

Altogether,1,770 orders for detention had been made.

.*

Of the 782 till detained, 4202. were members of organisations subject to foreign influence.

TRUNK

WHEN EVA KIRBY, AGED 28, Mr. Lees Smith (Soc., Keighley) CHARWOMAN, OF WALCOTT said: "It is not a criminal offence. STREET, HULL, WAS SENTEN-

'MONTHS IMPRI to have been a Fascist, though you CED TO 10 may be a potential danger in time SONMENT AT YORK ASSIZES of war.

ON THE CHARGE OF MAN- "They are not the kind of SEAUGHTER 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 speciar power EMPTY HOUSE FOUND THE Id necessary.

BODIES OF THREE BABIES IN A TRUNKANSE

Why In Frison ?

Kirby, who formerly lived in "Mr. Maxton (1.L.P, Bridgton) the house, said she put the baby 'caid of "the case against Captain concerned in the charge in the Ramsay, M.P,: "I have read the trunk when she found it was thing fairly cloedly and can dead, but denied any know- isce nothing In the ovidence that ledge of the other two..

leada marto think that he ought. The police described her as a chuf in a prison,: (Laught quiet, inoffensive woman

fond of children.

Every