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RUSSIAN ARTILLERY, MACHINE-GUN FIRE TAKING HEAVY TOLL OF NAZIS IN THE OSTROV SECTOR ONE HUNDRED

Significant Silence Noted In

German Communiques

LONDON, July 19 (Reuter)—A WAR COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY THE SOVIET INFORMATION BOARD AND BROADCAST BY THE MOSCOW RADIO, states that throughout the day of July 9 fierce fighting was continued "Against large enemy tank and mechantsed units trying to break through in Ostrov, Polotsk and Novograd-Vollnak directions.

"In the Ostrov' sector our forces Bre engaged in Я stub- born battle holding back the advance of superior enemy forces In the direction of Polotsk, the enemy

offensive renewed his this morning. Of troops met his offensive with deadly artillery and machinegun fire and with decisive counter-attacks.

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GENERAL

Important Syria Port Captured By Allies Government casuos continue the strugie in Syria la contalard in a

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LONDON, July 10 (Reuter) An admission that the French

communique issued yesterday and reported in to the official German news agency.

a Vichy dispatch

The Vichy communique says that despite all efforts, the French

Government was not able to send its troops in Syria the reinforce-

ments they required to continue the struggle,

DESTROYERS YEARLY FOR U.S. NAVY

With the desire to arold "parti-, propaganda Intended to bolster up WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuter) cularly painful bloodshed in a the morale of the troops and im- The United States will be produr struggle that was growing more press the local population, Ing 100 destroyers yearly by 1943, painty every day." the French Pending the agreement of armis. it was disclosed by Admiraj 8. M.Government, states the communi- tice terms, it is emphasised here Robinson, Chlef of the Naval Bu- ¡que, "have authorised. General that hostilities wil continue ac- reau of Ships, yesterday.

Dents to ask for an immediate tively.

NO ENMITY "United States shipbuilding pro-laying down of arms.” grammes," declared Admi, Robin- A demarche to that effect Was LONDON, July 10 (Reuter) --. son, "are proceeding much faster made at Beirut yesterday through (Mr. Alfred Duff-Cooper, Minister than the most optimistic In the the United States Consul-General, jo; Information, speaking in Lon- Naval Department had expected concludes the communique. don yesterday, said that Britain and it is absolutely essential' to

had no feeling of hostility or speed up production of materials

enmity against

the Frenchmen who obeyed the orders of the Vichy Government.

""We only hope that this unfor- tunate hostUlty will be forgotten as soon as possible."

to keep up with the pace,"

"Fighting still continues, and in the course of which our troops the enemy is suffering heavy inflicted heavy losses

AMERICAN OFFICE losses

enemy by short counter blows.

WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuter) "In the direction of Lepel our In the direction of Lepel our troops are making successful coun troops delivered a blow at the

Mr. Sumner Welles, Under-Be Testifying before the Senate Decretary of State, yesterday stated ter-thrusts against the enemy. In enemy and smashed two motorised

fence Investigating Committee the Novograd-Volinsk area there regiments, destroyed four heavy

that the American Consul-Gen- was fierce Aghting throughout the and light batteries as well as a Adml. Robinson said that the pro-eral at Beirut had

noted as the day between our troops and large considerable quantity of anti-tank gramme was "four or five months" transmitting agency between the enemy mechanised forces.

weapons, and the enemy left hun-ahead of the rest of the National British and French in efforts to dreds of bodies on the battlefield. defence effort The enemy withdrew.

"In other directions, our troops are fighting stubbornly maintain ing their positions.

In the direction of Novograd-

secure an armistice in Syria.

He emphasised that the United States had confined their activi-

"Our aircraft operated against Volynsk our troops continued to "EFFECTIVE AID ties to transmitting notes and in-

enemy mechanised units and dés wage continuous stubborn battles

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troyed enemy, aircraft ground. Dur aircraft bonbeded units counteracting their ad Constanza, a port, and trade portsvance to the east,

the against enemy tanks and motoris

In Tulcea and Sullna, and the oll Helds of Ploesti.

GERMAN CLAIM

The German officia) news agency says that German troops have oc

In other sector of the front there were no large-scale fighting operations during the night.

NIGHT OPERATIONS Our air force delivered blows cupied Ostroy on the main road against mechanised units of the to Leningrad which is 200 miles! enemy in the Ostrov, Lepel and to the north-east.

sectors and

OR NOT AT ALL”

Mr.

formation

DESPERATE POSITION LONDON, July 10 (Reuter) --- Damour. "south of Beirat, Vichy's most important port, is liable to fall into Allled hands at any mo.

Wendell Willkie And "Lip Service" ment.

caused

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U.S. NAVY PERMITTED TO SHOOT

WASHINGTON, July 10 (Renter) Col. Frank Knox. U.S. Secretary of Navy, said at his Press con- terence yesterday that President

General Dentz's request for an Roosevelt had told the Navy what WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuter,

to do if it became necessary to Mr. Wendel Willkie told the armistice, therefore, has

little surprise here, where

'shoot, in order to prenect the At- pointed out that from the military lantie approaches to U.S. bases

against hostile activity. EL

aviation of the daily

Novograd Volynsk against the enemy on hils aerodromes,

Press after President Roosevelt's Press conference yester- day "that there is no use 30 Just We In night operations against enemy giving lip service to Britain. aerodromes and in air battles durcan either give her effective ald

try

viewpoint. Vichy's troops are in desperate position.

else-

The town was captured after "attempts by Soviet troops to take

Col. Knox declared the language up new defence positions on the

The capture of Damour

of the realand would

message "would Latvian front," adds the agency.

indicate" that the President in- be a crippling blow because In Estonia, says the agency. Ing the night of the 8th to 9th or it would be better not to where in Syria the position of the tended the Atlantic patrol to Nazi troops have captured the our force destroyed €2 enemy to give any aid at all."

farther than its previous orders, port of Pernau and the town of planes in the Lepel, Borisov and He said that he favoured the Vichy troups is equally serious.

British Imperiaj troops are also which merely were to report any between Pernau Bobruisk sectors alone, Josing Erilled States establishing mlti-

Beven of its own planes.

tary bases in Northern Ireland and Aleppo, advancing parallel to the

threatening the remaining city of hostile craft sighted

Istanbul-Aleppo-Baghdad railway TABLE BAY HARBOUR from the southeast and east. ON WAR FOOTING

Fellin, midway

and Dorpat.

DEBRUCZ FIGHTING

According to verified data nur Scotland. VICHY, July 10 (Reuter) - Aair force destroyed 102

enemy "The American occupation ot communique issued yesterday by planes during July 8, losing 19 of Iceland is in my judgment but the the Hungarian High Comniand, its new planes. according to Budapest dispatch

Lu the Vichy news agency, states:

"Our fast troops near the River S'hai Chinese

Debrucz were engaged in combats

with the enemy for the crossing of Sends Letter

the River.

Our cyclist group by

forced march and our engineers by their unceasing work have con- tributed in no small measure tu the successes "

The Debrica is a tributary of

the Dnlester, which it joins just north of Chotih.

EASTERN SECTOR

To Churchill

CHUNGKING, July 10 (Central--

first of similar steps that should be taken," he declared.

Replying to questions he sald that it is vital to keep the sea lanesopen" and added that British

running shipping losses were

far shead of new constructions.

HAIFA, JULY 10 (KEUTER

IMPERIAL FORCES HAVE NOW OCCUPIED DAMOUR.

CAPETOWN, July 10 (Reuter) Far-reaching proposals for trane- ferring Table Bay Harbour from a peacetime footing routine to war- At the same time, Allfed co-time footing will shortly be put lumns are steadily advancing at before the Minister of Railway by Nebec and Furgius to threaten the a strong deputation of Capetown vital road and ral junction of shipping and commercial leaders. LONDON, July 10 (Reuter) Homs from the south and east.

It is proposed to institute a 24- Furthermore, Vichy troops in hour day and seven-day week ser-

vice. Jezzine are now in imminent dan

The Chinese-American Dally News, Equipment for Russia is already in

a on Tuesday sent to the Shanghai at the Ministry of Economic War-ger of being isolated as the result British Embassy office a letter for fare yesterday,

vernacular paper in Shanghai, translt from Britain, it was stated

of an Allied push up the coast, Arrangements have been COM- Authoritative quarters consider the recent rumours thill signed by 100,000 Chinese, pleted in Britain for supplying that according to a Shanghat dispatch Russia with large quantities of war of strong Vichy reinforcements

Those who signed the letter are materials, it was also stated.

reaching Syria are largely only

LONDON, July 10 (Reuter)-The presentation to Mr. Winston Chur- battle of the eastern front has developed into the Battle of the Three Rivers Dvina, Dneister and Dnelper.

FINNISH FRONT BUDAPEST, July 10 (Reuter)- An advance on the eastern fron- tier to a depth of five to 10 kilo- metres is claimed by the Finns in а Finnish communique quoted yesterday by the Budapest wire

less.

The communique adds that "our troops have occupied a few points

mostly readers of the paper.

The letter praises the capable leadership of Mr. Churchill and Britain's galant fight and firm resolve to wipe out the aggres- sion.

The letter declares that China is also fighting against aggression and for peace in the Far East with the same resolve as Britain's.

The letter will be placed in a

beyond the southern frontier and box and shipped to England.

have repulsed the enemy. Our air force carried out reconna'sance.

activity and dropped bombs."

Hungarian troops have reached

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LONDON &

the river Fruth and are fighting CHUNGKING.

to force a crossing, states an off-

cial Hungarlar communique.

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SIGNIFICANT SILENCE

LONDON Tian'

-wy 10 (British Wire-

wwth reviewing the latest news

AXIS

No Safety In Air-Raids

ENGLISHMEN NOW GO TO BED

WHEN WARNING SOUNDS

New York-Millions of Englishmen are making air raid shelters out of their beds just by putting a pillow over their heads to shut out the noise and going to sleep.

They have found in nine months under bombardment that there aren't any bombproof she'lers. The only absolutely safe' place when bombs start dropping is out of town and after they begin to fall it's too late to get there,

The next safest place is down, cities contains 4,000 times as much in a deep subway station, but sta- explosive as a stick of dynamite,

It is the blast of this explosion Several hundred South Londoners that Causes the dentage and |were drowned in one, when a big casualties. A look at what one big bomb hit a water main over their bomb did in a tenement district

RECOGNITIONtions aren't entire,y bombproof. OF NANKING

from the Russian front competent LONDON July neuter, commentators mark the Sign Invited in the House of Commons heads lost autumn. Many other shows how. It hit a row of ad- Acance of the silence on the part yesterday by the Labour member, hundreds have been killed in shal-Joining, two-storey brick houses Of German communiques. and Mr Philip Noel-Baker, to make a lower subways and in underground The two houses in the centre of point out that the German drive statement on the relations between and surface shelters.

the bit were gone—blown up. Six has now lasted a fortnight against the flovernment and Chungking

Fewer than a hundred thousand houses on each side flattened Into. great and apparently effective op in view of the regent Axis recog-people and shelter in London piles of brick and timbers. Faur position.

nition of Nanking, Mr. Anthong deep anbway stations, leaving houses 150 feet to the rear of the Experience seems to show that Eden, the Foreign Secretary, re-seven million others to go some hit, across the open backyard be- drivers of armoured Aghting plled that this development did, where else. In a night raid most tween two streets, also were flat- continue not make any difference to the of these seven million act as if the tened. Every house within 160 feet more than 14 days without a Government's Far Eastern policy alrens hadn't sounded, the guns of the hit either was smashed break and this factor, together which was based on recognition

weren't barking and the aeroplanes, completely or had walls blown out. with the strenuous Russion resis of Chungking as the legitimate weren't droning overhend. For another 200 to 300 feet every tance, has resulted in a consider national Chinese Government,

They crowd the neighbourhood house was damaged. able pause in the operations.

Because very few places in a' On July 7, the Chinese entered saloons until closing time and then

vehicles are unable

to

Russian communique received

London at noon yesterday:

The following is the text of a the fifth year of their indomitable go home and go to bed. They hurry bombed city seem to be sate people

resistance. "I am happy to

In off the street because houses who live under a bombardment shut out some of the frightening have become fatalistic about it. "During the night of July and here that the British Government as safe in a saloon or at home as only 800 to 1,000 out of 7,000,000 peat the assurance I recently gave noise but they figure they are just They count on the law of averages b large scale fighting took place will continue to do what it can they would be in an air raid are killed on an average heavy in the Polotsk, Lepel. and Novo-to help China to maintain her in shelter, grad-Volynak sectors.

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bombing right in London-to keep Anyone who has seen what a big them alive, bomb does knows there isn't much Probably they are no braver protection against it anywhere. than when the blitz started last

SOME IDEA

August everyone who can hear it Comparison of the explosive is terrified when a bombs is falling force in a big band and in a stick rearby, But the civilian veterans of dynamite gives some idea of of the bombing of Britain have bee the reason. A stick of dynamite come resigned, to nighting down averages about eight ounces and this terror anii going to sleep,-*-**-.

dependence" (Cheers). In the Ostrov sector our troops

Mr. den indicated his assent *strangthened the positions oe-

cupied by them and carried out when Mr. Noel-Baker expressed Intensifed night reconnaissance the hope that he would tranamit STUBBORN RESISTANCE, that message to the Chinese Gay. Towards the end of July 8 fight, ernment with an assurance that it ing developed in the direction of was warmly supported by all Pars Bebesh, where enemy tank and ties in the House, infantry unite endeavoured to break througti to the gost." -Fight- WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters explodes with enough" fordes to A pillow over their handa keeps, ing continued,

-The Red Croes" announces" that smsah a rook three feet th'ck into out some of the noise and if the In the Polotak sector stubborn six British nurses are missing from plodos.

V house blows down » lus - probably Fund intense fabting continues in British ship which wall torpedoed. One of the Abomia dropped better to be uyar hire Bere there

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