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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 29, 1941.

ALL-TIME TANK RECORD

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British Factories. Rise To New Heights

“Tanks For ITALIAN Russia Week" STAFF CAR

CAPTURED

Capture

Huge Success Capting of an Italian

Staff car by South

TANK PRODUCTION IN BRITAIN DURING Africans was mentioned **TANKS FOR RUSSIA WEEK" WAS NEARLY in yesterday's British 20 PER CENT. HIGHER THAN IN THE PRE- Middle East communiqué VIQUS WEEK, WHICH ITSELF PROVIDED AN issued in Cairo. ALL-TIME RECORD, THE MINISTRY OF SUP) PLY STATED IN LONDON YESTERDAY:

"Libya: Apart from ineffective |< enemy artillery fire the situation at-Tobruk throughout yesterday was generally quiet.

"In the frontier area our patrols

Saturday's tank output was the highest daily production rate ever reached and the last three days of the "week produced more continued their aggressive activi- tanks than any previous three days.

HITLER'S BIGGEST FAILURE

ties.

"Yesterday a South African

A Ministry of Supply official patrol captured a Staff car Con- stated that targets had been set -taining four Italian--officers,], for every tank and plane factory Reuter.

in the country-targets which. were even higher than the peak objectives of last week,

Throughout the week-end tele- grams and telephone calls hag béen pouring into the Ministry from tank factories, foundries and steel works in which workers pledged themselves to do their utmost to exceed last week's re- cord production this weeks.

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Long-Term Policy. Ministry or Supply export. have planned a rapidly expand

gak production programme facture."

powering every process of manu

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION OR SABOTAGE?

R.A.F. BUSY IN MIDDLE EAST

A fire which broke out in a saltpetre fac- tory in the Norwegian province of Telemark on Saturday destroyed workshops, labora tories and much of the precious substance according to an Oslo despatch to the In-machine-gunning targets dependent French at Sardinia, Sicily, Tar- Agency yesterday.

anto, Palermo, Agrigento, The fire is ascribed Bardia and Mersa Lukk. to "spontaneous com- bustion:"-Reuter.

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The R.A.F. had a busy time between Friday night and Saturday night, according to a R.A.F. Middle East com- munique-issued in Cairo yesterday, bombing and

GERMAN WOMEN REACH TURKEY

FOUR HUNDRED and fifty Axis women. and children and staff of the German Leup- tion from Teheran possed through Ai yesterday,

ME Clement Attlee, Des puty Prime Minister, speaking at Manchester, yesterday said: "The first failure of Hitler was the

The train was met by Frau Glodius, wife failure to create disunity

of Hitler's trade negotiator, the Bulgarian in this country that This programme is based on a

long-term policy for a constant Minister, and representatives of the Italian same disunity which flow of those types selected for in France and other coun-mediate needs by the Soviet and Hungarian. Missions,

Government, and also to maintain tries paralysed, strong re-the simultaneously increasing re- sistance.c.

"Yet whom things:looked very" dark notsono:ofeus, despaired::

"We are facing-tosdage, the most acute-phases ofth-long-planned conspiracy designɛchitou ensilave mankind and destroy the entired foundation civilised society:

"That plan was conspired and: carried but by a very evil man but also by a very able man; bý}

quitements of Britain's own swift- lykexpanding armoured fighting forees-Reutere”.

The women said that the lotry drive from Teheran to the fron- tier took eight days during which they were constantly stopped" and searched by the Russians' who, they alleged, took their watches, shoes,. furs and jewellery, leaving each

US BUYING such person only-one-suft

JETALS

The majority of the travellers were very poorly dressed” but several women' wore furs and

a man of strong, will and by a| (SPECIAL TOCCHINA AMAIL") Jewels suggesting that the stories

man of utter ruthlessness:

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THE UNITED STATES IS "In the nations of Eutopesha ABOUT TO COMPLETE NEW stuck together this evil thing AGREEMENTSS WITH PERU could have been strangled at its AND BOLITA birth: Opportunity after oppor-CHASE OF ADDY tunity was lost during those years PLUS whenya (halt could have been It is callel to this fatal slipping dowry in Washing into the inbyss of war-

ment plans, Dounity prevalled and the vanadium ca rare world is now-paying its price, as a steel alloy "It is tragic to look back and and lead see how the mighty forces of the world have been dissipated by disunity but Hitlerr failed to dis- rupt this country.

of Russian treatmerit were "great"-" ly exaggerated.

"No" "Hello"

SUR- The German Embassy › provided lunch for the refugees who looked authority sad and depressed and did not the Govern-"Hell" as is customary at a mass

surplus lement useful gathering of Germans.". On the whole the refugees did not look happy at the prospect of return-

ng to their Fatherland.

copper

Bolivia enters the picture: with surplus zine as well salin and tungsten. International News Service.

He failed to destroy our Air Force. He failed in those attacks and strength of the ordinary man last year on Britain and he has and woman In this country failed ever since by the courage British Wireless.

TIME HAS TOLD-GĦM on the once samooth fawn in the centre of the squaro"opposito Parijamont had grown,winist jhigh": and two man have been detailed to cut it..Photo shows Big Bon Lowering Above the waythos of the workorei

The party's arrival in Istanbul from Iran was reported in an Istanbul despatch to the official Gorman new agency.

Germans in the party are be ing accommodated in two large Rumanian steamers, the- sylvania" and "Bessarabia."

The Bulgarian charge d'affaires in Teheran, M. Dafinov-was among the travellers.

CONGRESS: LEADER'S APPEAL

ENLIST IN THE ARMY- AIR FORCE AND NAVY, SHOW YOU HAVE THE WARRIOR MENTALITY AND HELP YOUR SELF. DON'T DE ANTI-WAR”

So declared Mr MS: Aney, member of the Viceroy'r expand- öd Executive Council and former President of the Indian National Congress addressing a public meeting at Wardha Contral Provinces, yesterday,20

Congress had betrayed the interest of the sectoratos by re- signing from the Ministries, he [anid, bading that acceptalico office afforded opportunities | India's progress-Reutor:

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Bases and aerodromes at Elmas in Sardinia were raided and large number of seaplanes were reverely damaged as well as de- fending aircraft.

The hangar and wireless station at Marsala, the aerodrome at Borizzo, and the electrical plant at Porto Empedocle also sustained damage, aircraft being damaged and ground crews machine-gun- ned..

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