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GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA SIGN AGREEMENT

IN MOSCOW

WILL RENDER EACH OTHER EVERY KIND BOMBER COMMAND AIRCRAFT FLY OF HELP IN THE WAR AGAINST GERMANY Fulfilment of Mr. Churchill's Policy Of Full Military Collaboration With Soviet

AN AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED IN MOSCOW ON SATURDAY NIGHT FOR FULL MILITARY COLLABORATION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND SOVIET RUSSIA.

THIS WAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED IN LONDON YESTERDAY- The agreement. it is pointed out in London, is designed for the prosecution of the war in fulfilment of Mr. Churchill's policy of full collaboration with Russia.

The agreement consists of two Articles:--

effective military

1. The two Governments mutually undertake to render each other every assistance of all kinds in the present war against Nazi Germany.

2. They further undertake that during this war either Government will neither negotiate nor conclude an armistice or a treaty of peace, except by mutual agreement.

The agreement, which is not subject to ratification and comes into force at once, was signed by SIR STAF- FORD CRIPPS, British Ambassador to Soviet Russia, on behalf of the British Government, and M. VIACHELAV MIKHAILOVICH MOLOTOV, Soviet Foreign Commissar.“

THROUGHOUT THE NEGOTIATIONS THE DOMINIONS AND THE UNITED STATES WERE KEPT FULLY INFORMED AND ALL HAD EXPRESSED COMPLETE AGREEMENT WITH THE PROPOSAL.

GERMAN TANKS AND INFANTRY DRIVEN

THROUGH HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WORRIED OVER DAMAGE IN N.W. TO ATTACK BREMEN: GERMANS

FLYING THROUGH HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS, AIRCRAFT OF THE BOMBER" COMMAND ON SATURDAY NIGHT BOMBED OBJECTIVES IN BREMEN AND ELSE WHERE IN NORTH-WESTERN GERMANY, CAUSING LARGE FIRES.

THE SHIPBUILDING YARDS AT BREST WERE ALSO ATTACKED. Two of our aircraft are missing from these night operations. Enemy air activity over Britain on Saturday night was again slight and was main- ly confined to the coastal areas.

Some bombs were dropped at a few points in the south-west and east of England but there were no casualties or damage.

The Moscow Radio broad- cast that the British airmen have shown the true side of Goering's boast that no Bri- tish bombs would fall in the Ruhr which was now working at 30 per cent. of its capacity. į Giving an impressive list of ob-) jectives bombed by the British since the beginning of July, the broadcast said that the Germans were worried Et the material damage that was being caused.

British planes had just brought to a close a week of almost non- stop raids,

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VICHY OPPOSITION IN SYRIA ENDED

Armistice Negotiations Without Acrimony

"I AM GLAD TO SAY THAT THE WHOLE PROCEEDINGS The Dominion Governments were It has no new legal sense in the were brought down in daylight for Sir Henry Maitland-Wilson, Commander-in-Chief of the Allled Eighty-three German planes WERE CARRIED OUT. WITHOUT ACRIMONY," declared, General consulted at every stage of the Treaty of Alliance Anglo-Soviet negotiations and the The first point should facilitate eight bombers but the plots of signed on Saturday night.

the loss of 45 British fighters and forces in Syrla, în a broadcast on the Syrian armistice which was United States Government was kept the negotiating now proceeding in eight are safe. In addition an- fully informed,

states Reuter's London between General Goikov, other 20 Nazi bombers wree des- painful but necessary ceremony and added that the Vichy opposi

General W.Ison said that they had just been taking part in a Diplomatie correspondent in Lon- Russian Deputy Chief of the troyed during night attacks, don.

General Staff at the head of the

tion in Syria, had now come to end." Soviet Services Mission.

"NO COMPARISON

"The negotiations in which we have been engaged should ensue The desultory and (Reater) TOW GERMAN TANKS AND IN- consecrates the state of co-belll- the Germans, if additional proot be compared with the British day-spare the honour of the French Army without prejudic ng nur own

The second point will convince nature of the Nazi raids could not position from which to deal with him.

scattered us of a bulwark of denfenes against the Germans and a well placed FANTRY WERE DRIVEN OUT OF THE KEY TOWN OF ROGAT gerency already existing between is necessary, that they have raised Hght sweeps during the past week.

We have done our best to CHEV, at the Junction of the Dnieper and Pruth rivers, south-west the two Governments in the war a united front against themselves

OUT OF ROGATCHEV

ZURICH, July

of Smolensk, was told yesterday in a Nazi report that reached Swit- zerland:

Rogatchev is some miles east of Bobruisk, through which the Ger mans last week launched the southern art of their pincer drive on Smolensk.

The Nazis. says the report, failed to get across the Dnieper. not only owing to the timely blowing up of the bridge by the Russians, but also owing to the "robust fighting spirit of the Soviet soldiers."

The Germans penetrated Rogat- chev, but had to evacuate under fire from massed Soviet artillery.

MORE INFREQUENT This is typical of reports from the Nazi Propaganda Company-- 38 war correspondents with the German Army are called-but even these are becoming more and more infrequent in the Nazi press.

The Basler Nachrichter's Berlin correspondent said yesterday that the secrecy surrounding all events on the eastern front is now "even more striking than it was at the start of the campaign,"

SIGNED FOR RUSSIA

The Joint agreement formally

against Germany.

that no intrigue can weaken.

Russian Guerillas Are Inflicting Heavy Losses On Panzer, Infantry Units

British bortbers and fighters were again in action over Northern France on Saturday, says Reuter.

In the morning heavy bombers, escorted by fighters, attacked rail- way

and canal communications, says an Air Mistry communique,

In the afternoon, an offensive | sweep over Northern France was carried out by fighters.

Six enemy Aghters were des- troyed in these operations and two British fighters were lost. During the day, Blenheim bomb-

MOSCOW, July 13 (Reuter)-RUSSIAN GÜERILLAS OPERATING ers searched for enemy shipping BEHIND THE EASTERN BATTLE FRONT ARE INFLICTING HEAVY off the Dutch coast and attacked LOSSES ON PANZER AND INFANTRY UNITS, ACCORDING TO THE a number of patrol vessels,

PRAVDA.

Among interesting incidents described by the Pravda is the Story)

of how three German tanks became "neutralised" owing to lack of petrol after entering the square of Pinsk.

MACKENZIE KING TO VISIT LONDON Mackenzie King,

Mr.

Prime

Russian partisans climbed into of petrol. Peasants in the Nesjiv the root of the tanks and put ma- region dismantled a railway and Minister of Canada, has returnedt chine-guns out of action with ham-carried off the tracks into mers, then blacksmiths began to marshes.

the to Ottawa after a three-weeks' tour dismantle the tanks and the Ger-

of Western Canada.

The mans inside surrendered.

Canadian Premier fore- shadowed a visit to England.

Mr. Mackenzle King is. full of

A band of 100 guerillas attacked]

ARMOURED CARS DESTROYED

In one unspecified region, Soviet

à German motorised Infantry in partisans between July 4 and July enthusiasm for the expansion of the Beresina region and the Pravda 8 destroyed or captured seven Canada's war programme. Though long-term hopes are still M. Molotov, Foreign Commissar, states that 150 Germans were kill-armoured cars, one tank and one high in Germany, the German who signed the military agreemented and the rest dispersed. public has given up all expecta with Britain, ori

behalf of the tlons of early success announce-

Sovlet Government. ments.

SIMLA, July 13 (Reuter-A press conference has been called for tomorrow (Monday) by the

·Elmia Secretariat when an import- ant political announcement is ex- pected..

Bulgarian Divisions

Mobilised

ANKARA, July 13 (Reuter)—}

Whippet tank,

Other guerilla groups ambashed

According to the RED STAR, or and destroyed 18 tanks with bottles gan of the Army, German prison- ers have revealed that Nazi non- commissioned officers as early as

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64-HOUR RAIDS ON NAPLES, TRIPOLI,

BENGHAZI

LONDON, July 13 (Renter)-Raids on NARIES, TRIPOLI and BENGHAZI were misde by RAF. bombers for the last 64 hours during large-scale operations in the Middle East which saw Anal blows on Vichy French positions, m. Syria

Details were given in the R.A.F. communique Issued here yester- das...

About 18 Bulgarian divisions have

The first rald 'wag on Italy's shot down and two others made been mobilised according to reports North African base of Tripoll on forced landings in the sea, but the

Wednesday evening when there crew of one is known to be safe,] reaching here...

Bix of them are in occupied was "heavy damage on enemy states the communique, countries.

shipping" including hits on two

The Bulgarians have been busy ships of 10,000 borts and one of Two seaplanes were destroyed at

building aerodromes, -

7,000, tons,

SEAPLANE BEACHED

sea off Tripoll on the same day and It is believed thote has been Lifeboats and plecos of wreckage| Observation on Thursday revealed some increase in the strength of were hurled high in the at Ware- | that one of the ships hit had been the Bulgarian Cavalry on the houses hit blew up with a violent beschede Turkish frontier but there unhe explosion, Ruby dre On Thursday night, 'a hrave raid omormation of the reports for Two enemy | Ngiftera⠀⠀ attacked was made on military objectives in large, Bulgar dönsentrations there, British alleraft one of which was....... Cont'd Page

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JAPAN & NAZI CHESTNUTS

... VICTORIA, British Colum- bla, July 13 (Reuter)-Japan is "not going to pall Ger- many's chestnuts out of the fire," Mr. Ichiro Kapaski,. Japanese Consul at Vanevi- ver, British Columbia, who was for four years at the Japanese Embassy in London, told in- terviewers yesterday.

"We are not committed too deeply with the Axis and are. not vassals of Germany," he said. "We have much in com mon with the British peopl Like them, we are a seafaring nation and depend on world trado.

"We are not like the Ger- mans. They are ruthless and uncouth."

DEVASTATION POWER OF CANNONS ON BRITISH FIGHTERS

LONDON, July 13 (Reuter)—The devastation power of the catt- nons with which British fighters are now armed is such that only

a small proportion of German pilots are able to bale out safely when their machines are hit.

Time after time during the res schmitt's fuselage and it took me cent R.A.F. sweeps over northern all my time to avoid the wreck- France, German machines have age,"

simply exploded in midair when There are other striking eviden

The official ratification of the terms will take place in Cairo and Beirut and the presence of Mr. Oliver Lyttleton, representative of the British War Cabinet, in the Middle East, in Cairo, will be of great value in this matter.

TERMS INITIALLED LONDON, July 13 (Reuter)--The Vichy Commission initialled the armistice documents at 10.40 last night (local time) pending official ratification, writes Reuter's Special correspondent with the Inperial forces at a British yeomanry.camp near Acre, yesterday.

Discussion of the Armistice terms took place here in condi tions of utmost secrecy. The po pulation of Haifa, only about 17 miles away, was completely in aware that Vichy delegates had arrived here shortly after 11 o'clock this morning.

Led by General de Verdillac, de fender of Damascus, who is repre- senting General Dentz, and a number of staff officers, the dele- gates had travelled along the bat- tle scarred coastal road from Beirut.

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582,000 Italian Casualties

LONDON, July 19 (Raute

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