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BUTTER

SEE-SAW IN LENINGRAD DUEL

Germans Claim

Claim New Advance

SOCONY

FACTORY BLAZE

Effective Soviet Effective

WAVELL'S

Counter-Thrusts FLYING

VISITS

THE TERRIFIC STRUGGLE FOR LENINGRAD, with THE EBB AND FLOW OF THE OPPOSING ARMIES, WAS DESCRIBED All available firemen YESTERDAY IN BOTH BERLIN AND MOSCOW BROADCASTS. and police were rushed to the scene after an explo- sion and fire occurred in the Standard Oil Com- pany factory at Whiting, -Indiana.

One man is reported to have been killed and several are injured.

The fire spread to dozens of В region oil storage tanko In almost a mile long,

Concern is expressed over the possibility that an "agitator, plait," which is a storage place

It is understood that General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in- Chief, India, has been on a visit to London, where had consultations with the Imperial General ¡Staff.

he Bulgaria

Issues Denial

All is quiet in Bulgaria, for highly volatile fuels, may declared the Bulgarian The flames Arc visible for Minister of Interior, M.

explode.

many miles,

The fire is now under control.

Later. apparently

Reuter.

Britain Warns Finland

The Germans, in claiming the capture of “a fair-sized town,” refer to hard house-to house fighting before the city and the "ten- acious resistance” of the city's defenders.

· General Wavell came by. air and has now returned to India,

The capture of further sections of Lenin- grad's defences figure in the German claims, which speak of the taking of strong Soviet field positions and the putting out of action of a number of Soviet pillboxes with heavy General Wavell's visit was to losses for the enemy.

On the Russia side, the "Red 'planes and destroyed 10 more on Star" states that in battles on the an enemy aerodrome. bridges to Leningrad the German in attacks have been repulsed and the Russians have inflicted heavy losses in a series of counter-

Grabowski,

addressing foreign journalists Sofia yesterday, states a Sofia despatch to the offi- |cial German news agency.

The Minister stressed that as a partner in the three-power pact, Bulgaria stood on the side of the Axis powers politically and ideo- logically.

attacks.

to

According to a field despatch the "Red Star" one. such counter-attack developed into a battle which raged 'throughout Tuesday,

The Soviet troops forced the 126th German Infantry Division He denied American reports to roll back, capturing fortified

positions, that in the near future Bulgaria

THE GERMANS THEN would enter the war against the Soviet Union, establish a pro- BROUGHT TANKS INTO AC÷ tectorate in the Crimes to "con- TION SUPPORTED BY: INFAN- trol the Black Sea and particl- TRY BUT WERE COMPELLED pate in exploitation of the Cau- TO RETREAT, “LEAVING THE BATTLEFIELD STREWN WITH casian oll wells,

THE CORPSES OF GERMAN SOLDIERS.'

The report that Britain has told Finland that if she continues to invade purely Russian territory it will be necessary for Britain to treat Finland as an open enemy now Bulgaria, he added, had no ag and when peace had gressive intentions against any

one and was not being pressed come, was confirmed in from any quarter-Reuter London yesterday..

It was added that if Finland ceased fighting and withdrew her

troops to her original frontiers as RUSSIA

they existed before the Russo-Fin- nish War Britain, it was under stood, would be ready to see whe ther relations between the two countries could be improved,susa

The suggestion of M. Tanner, Finnish Minister of Commerce, that the Finnish war against Rus sin could be separated from the war as a whole is not regarded a possibility in authoritative Cir-

er in London Reuter:

SUBMARINE'S

TWO SUCCESSES

A FACTOR

FOR PEACE

“RUSSIA'S RESISTANCE

16.

A FACTOR FOR PEACE - IN THE PACIFIC, DECLARED SIR RONALD CROSS, BRITISH HIGH

“Cossack" Tanks

In another sector on the south- eastern approaches to the city the Germans drove a wedge into, the Russian defences but were forced to retreat by "Russian Cossack tanks" "which are mentioned for the first time, s

Heavy losses dre claimed by by the "Red Star" to have been inflicted on the 436th and 187th, German Alpine Regiments dur- ing an attack by German and Finnish troops on the Mur manak,front.

COMMISSIONER IN AUSTRA "Between September 8 and 15

LIA AT A LUNCHEON GIVEN

IN MELBOURNE YESTERDAY the German troops lost 2,000 men BY THE PREMIER OF Eyjo, in killed alone," states the news- paper, which adds that all attacks ITORIALE

were repulsed.

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"All unstintingly admire and British submarine has tor-praise the heroism and self-sa pedoed an enemy transport and a fice of the Russian force the supply ship of about 1-500 tons gold, A

in the central Mediterranean, ac-

cording to an Admiralty: com- 15Japan is watching Russia munique Issued yesterday after whose battle is our battle, de-

clared Sir. Könüld: hobh

The supply ship is believed to have been sunk and the trans port was later sconto-be on fire,

Reuter

Our relations with Japan are but are purely Japan's

The effective work of Soviet Fleet Air Arm aircraft found -'a place in yesterday's Soviet broad- casts.

Fleet Air Arm

A supplement to the Sovlet communique states that the So vict Baltic Fleet Air Arm during Monday brought down 13 enemy

During General. Wavell's vleit to London, he had séver䃋tálka“ with Mr. Churchill, General- Sir John Diff, Chief of the In- perial. General Staff, and other high British military officials::: It is understood the object of discuss various problems arising out of the situation in Russia and the Middle East-Reuter.

At the Fleet Air Arm Combers F

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FRENCH SHIP SUNK

Soviet Fleet Air Arm bombers | destroyed two German AA, bat- teries, 11 A.A. machine-gun em- placements, 14 armoured cars and eight guns.

The Vichy news agency an The Black Sea Fleet Air Armnounces that British bombers at- destroyed 11 enemy 'planes on tacked and sank the French cargo their aerodromes.

steamer "Moncelet" on Saturday in the Gulf of Gabes, off the coast The supplement also refers to of Tunísta. All her crew were a bold attack on German troops rescued.

adds that the “Mon- The agency. manded by a schoolmaster celet," which carried a cargo of by a guerilla detachment com- operating in the Odessa district. phosphates, caught fire after being

Reuter,

hit by three bombs Reuter,

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