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DISINTEGRATION FIERCE FIGHTING RAGING OF THE ARMY IN NOVOGRAD-VOLINSK & VITEBSK: GERMAN TANKS IN DIFFICULT SITUATION

AT STAKE

Roosevelt Favours Retention Measure

WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuter) -A [ormal warning that Prest- dent Roosevelt favoured retention in the army of National Guarda- men. reserve officers and dräftees beyond the 12-months period orl- ginally prescribed was given Con- gress by the Assistant War Secre Lary, Mr. Louis Patterson. who enid that the President also de- gired the removal of the 900,000 limit on the number of draftees who can be in service at ang ang

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LONDON, July 16 (Reuter) A Soviet communique Says that fighting continued in the Vitebsk and Novograd-Volynsk directions.

In Pskow our troops surrounded enemy motorised troops, destroying them scotlon by section The main enemy forces are being hurled back to the wost.

In Vitebsk, there was fierce fighting all day long, heavy enemy mechanised units trying to penetrate to the east. Fight- ing continues with heavy losses on both sides.

The communique adds: "In the of Roosevelt's

NAZI REASONING

Vitebak afca fighting

there

was

In Novograd-Volynsk, our troops are counteracting the enemy's attempts to penetrate to the east and join his tanks which are in a diffien't situation. Oll-fields at Ploesti, Sulipa and in other directions and sectors of Talces were bombed by Soviet the front, no important fighting aircraft.

took place and no substantial

In a letter to the Speaker, Mr.

Flity-two German planes were changes occurred in the positions destroyed оп July 14. Soviet of the troops Sam Rayburn, Mr. Patterson said that legislation to accomplish these losses were 24

"Out air force during the might

July 14 bombed ojecte nad President

mechanised

approval

fierce units of the

raided enemy and all day long against retineries and oli - flelds "The sequence of German con.motorised and mechanised enemy Ploesta" quests which continued

units which made a without

vain endea-

PANZERS SLOWED Your to

tike Interruption from Austria to ́Rus-

penetrate to

east The Russlati uir force, according sia has been based on the anticl- losses on both sides.

Fighting continues with heavy to a Moscow report, has taken the ated fallure of the

"blitz" out of the "blitzkrieg." countries

"In the Novograd-Volinsk direc- It has forced a new "go slow concerned to be property prepared ugainst invasion,” Mr. Patterson tion our troops have been fighting polley on the Naxi panzer divi- stubbornly, counteracting enemy sions which, instead of crashing eastwards on far ahead and alone regard- "In each case, they launched an attempts to penetrate

and join his tanks which are in a less of what opposition they leave overwhelming force against an unprepared

difficult situation. We army.

behind, are now being protected "Our aircraft speculate with the security of this

on July 15 has against heavy casualties caused Dv been nation."

operating against enemy Russian air attacks. 'motorised and mechanised units, They are being escorted by slow their aerodromes, and bombed the their pace by more than half and has destroyed enemy aircraft

wrote

саллог

Mr. Patterson added that to do mobilise the army now would be

to "court disaster."

"ARMY AT STAKE" President Roosevelt declared at

Press conference that

the "disintegratlub of the Army was

ht

at stake" and Congress would not

An anti-aircraft units which reduce

ol district or Ploesti, warehouses compileate transport and supply, In Sulina and transporta in the and they are also constantly pro- district of Turces.

tected by swarms of Messerchmitt fighters

RIGA INCIDENT

"A Soviet destroyer in the Gulf

be breaking faith if it let the of Riga was attacked by enemy

RED PARACHUTISTS ROME, July 18 (Reuter)--Soviet

Army keep selectees and National Plates A.A. 11res destroyed and parachute troops have been drop-

· Guardsmen IX service over brought down two enemy planes pedi Hungary in order to de-

year.

1

dispatch to the news agency."

official

Italian

and the destroyer came out of the troy railways, states a Budapest He said the original Selective encounter unscathed. Service Act contained a proviso "Soviet trawlers in the Gulf of that draftees were retainable for Finland saw an enemy submarine, service through the declaration of, when crossing a minetfeld, des a national emergency by Congress troyed

The dispatch claimed that attempt made by Soviet parachute troops to destroy the Hungarian four railway line was frustrated by the Men caine in for a year subject 'enemy fighter two Soviet sea- "vigilance and energetic action of to that provision and therefore planes brought down two of the Hungarian troops."

or by amendment of the law.

"IO #171 encounter with

it would not be breaking falth for enemy aircraft. One Soviet plane Congress to enact legislation ex-was brought down.” tending service.

STUBBORN FIGHTING

Hungarian forces on the Soviet front were stated to be advancing

In Podolla in western Ukraine. lack of despite the

roads and

President Roosevelt to'd

a Soviet High CommNO Cuin- porters the thought it was a sim- munique broadcast by the Moscow difficulties of terrain. pie choice whether the Army radio states: "During the night of should he disintegrated or not. July 14. stubborn fighting con- The decision, he added, was up to tinued in the northwestern and Congress.

western directions of the front.

NEW LIGHT ON REPORTED HITLER-GOERING CLASH: PURGE

OF ARMY IN PROGRESS?

B

NEW YORK, July 16. (Beuter)-New light upon the reported Hitler- Goering rift over the invasion of the Soviet Union is thrown by Buenos Aires mailed dispatch to the New York Daily News, which. according to that newspaper, was posted some four days before the Soviet radio broadcast report

Goering is confined to his home and many generals have been moved because they share his opposition to the Nazi attack on the

· U.S.S.R., states the dispatch.

The report, it added, comes from; that he had decided to attack the aources in close touch with three Soviet Union, he was shocked on representatives of the German learning that his General Staf heavy industries who recently ar-unanimously opposed such a ven- rived at Buenos Aires. These men,, ture,

me of whom is representing Goer- WAR OF ATTRITION jing's steel trust, are reported to Goering, adds the dispatch, made be the emissaries of Reichwehr a counter-proposal that demanda generals who, it is stated, are align- should be made in Moscow for de ing themselves with heavy indus-litery to Germany of the economic try in the same fashion as Hitler direction of the Ukraine and the did late in 1820,

Caucasus, while General von Rel- They are reported to have said chenau is said to have expressed that when Hitler told his generals, the opinion that such a campaign would become a war of attrition In which Germany and the Soviet would eventually, be exhausted...

Hitler flew into a rage, accord-

HEAVEN-SENT

OPPORTUNITY TO ing to the German representatives

SMITE GERMANY

SYDNEY, Jun 18 (Reuter, An

quoted in the dispatch, Genera

von Brauchitsch and General von

Keltel came to his defence, while

appeal to the Australian Com General List, General Stoelphaget

to

munists Left Wing followers support the Federal Government

as the Soviet workers are support.

and General Falkenhorst, opposed kim.

BLOODLESS PURGE ing theirs was made by Mr. W-Hitler is proceeding cautiously with As a result, the dispatch adds. M. Hughes, the Navy Minister, in

a broadcast.

a bloodless purge. He has confined The Empire must take full ad- Goering to his home with the vantage of the heaven-sent oppor- choice of openly affrming his loyal. tunity to smite Germany; he saldy to the Fuehrer in a broadcast A month ago, the mighty Nazi to the derman people or being, war machine was poised to attack sent to a sanatorium Suez and Its Axis" partner would In addition, the... dispatch-saya. have...

simultaneously

the generals opposing the invasión ... attacked Singapore. All had been arranged of the Soviet Union have been but the scene was now changed.

ahiftest so that they will take Mr. Hughes castigated a small little part in the campaign

section of the very nicest people"

who suspected and distrusted the EXPLORER LEAVES

British-Bovies, Pact. They would

rather that Naslag won than have

the Soviet to help save us from

HUNGKING" July 1d) (Central) Buding

Nasl domina Gant God saveu Chungking, Sir Hubert "yyükle,

from such narrow-minded, treach-

| brous @nounssle. I welcome the

with unbounded suuzisfactio

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