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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941.

BREAK

A NAZI APOLOGIA TROJANS FOR SLOWNESS IN RUSSIA

A LENGTHY EXPOSE OF GERMAN AIMS ON RUSSIA AND AN EXPLANATORY OUTLINE OF THE FIRST TEN WEEKS OF THE GERMAN- SOVIET WAR WAS PUBLISHED. IN THE IN- FLUENTIAL “FRANKFURTER ZEITUNG.”

The paper reiterated that the military aim of the Germans is to weaken the Soviets in a decisive manner in order that Bolshevism should cease to be a danger for Europe. This aim has been partially achieved.

The fact that German opera- tions

more

in the East are proceeding JAPANESE

slowly thun in

campaigns results from the very nature of this war, the paper add- ed. Germany is now fighting a country whose population is five! times greater than that of France, whose expanse is infinite- ly more vast, and whose political leaders have been making during the past twenty years of the entire power of the popula- tion of 200,000,000 to give a mili- tary strength to the revolutionary

idea.

Admittance Of Difficulty

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cam-

"This Is why the final paign Germany has launched on the continent is the hardest, but it is also the biggest job completed when we end this campaign," the "Frankfurter Zeitung" asserted.

"As for the question of know ing who will come out the victor. no informed mind can have any doubt over that to-day," the paper went on. The first ten weeks of the war revealed that the Soviet army disposed of more troops and war material than any other, also that its resistance was stubborn and tenacious, but these last ten weeks proved, and in a decisive manner, the superiority of Ger- man men and arms.

The view supported by the British press that the Russians could gradually fall back be- hind the Dnieper and then the Volga le false, the "Frankfurter Zeitung" sald.

"If the western regions of the Russian empire are of no value, then why don't the Soviets with- draw? Why, do they defend every province and every village in the western and central sectors?" the "The reply is paper wondered. simple. The Russians are compell- ed to do so for it is in these areas that

principal munitions

their

plants are situated."

Napoleonic Parallel

Disagreeable

Asserting that there can be no

* comparison between the Napo- leonic campaign and the present one, and that the Russian winter will actually start within seven

OBJECT TO

DUTCH "V"

THE NETHERLANDS CON- SULATE-GENERAL IS UNDER- STOOD TO HAVE BEEN DIS- TRIBUTING AMONG DUTCH RESIDENTS IN KOBE LABELS WITH THE LETTER ** ON THEM.

These lubels posted in the homes and offices of the local Dutch residents were ordered to

by the be removed

Japanese authorities.

The offending label is about 5 long inches wide and inches with an

orange background, In the centre is a black letter "V." To the left is a pedestal of three the Royal House of Orange Nas- pillars supporting the Crown of

sau.

On the pillars are written the Dutch words "Waakzaam" (without neglect"). "Werkzaam"

take to arms"). (work hard"), and "Weerbaar" At the base of Pilers Van the pedestal are the words "De Ons Were Drijk" (a symbol of world construction).

V

WOMEN “BEHIND

THE MIKE”

LOCAL SHARES

.BANKS

Hong Kong Bank $1480 b.

INSURANCES

Canton Ins, $240 b.

SHIPPING

#

H.K. Steamboats. $10.80 b. DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS,” ETC.

H.K. and K. Wharves $97% b.,

899 s.

THEIR DUCK

Results of the Open League.bas- ketball matches played at Chinese Y:M.C.A... Kowloon, yesterday wère:- Trojans

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