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CABLE

BERLIN CLAIMS DNIEPER

DNIEPER RIVER Manhattan LAMMERTS AUCTIONS

REACHED BY NAZI TROOPS PUBLIC AUCTION. AFTER

THE

HE Undersigned have received

instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

on

Friday. the 22nd August, 1941

commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at the Sales Room, No 35. Hankow Road, Kowloon.

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

comprising:

FORCED MARCHES

Great Industrial City Of Dneipropetrovsk Threatened

LONDON, Ang. 19 (Router) -- The Dnieper River was reached on

cation of the location is given.

CABLE NEWS

IN BRIEF

SINGAPORE, Aug. 19 Reuter) —

Shaken By

Explosions

Major-General Sir Ivan Mackay. TWO KILLED AND 55 newly appointed Commander-in-

Chlef of the Australian Home For SERIOUSLY INJURED cos, arrived here yesterday On NEW YORK, Aug. 19 (Reuter)- the way to Australia. He Sald

Middle East, conditions were im-

Numerous explosions that shook

yesterday 20-

companied a raging fire which

Sunday morning by German infantry units, who had made forced that everything was well in the lower Manhattan marches, according to the official German news agency, but no indi-proving and that the troops were broke out at the East River whart

The claim states that the infantry bad the support of

tanks might be and artillery and that "smafl Soviet rearguards which attempted to hold them off were overwhelmed."

ready for a new fight wherever It

A

TOKYO, Aug. 19 (Reuter;

German guns are now stated to command a stretch of the river. Commodity exchange preventing the withdrawal of Soviet troops,

A Nazi High Command spokesman in Berlin last night said that the German troops from Krivoirng had reached the Dnieper 80 miles to the east and were advancing towards the great Soviet industrial city of Dniepropetrovsk,

These two announcements pre- Teawood

Room Bed Drawing Room Dining Room and offer sumably refer to the same opera- Cabin tion.

Furniture. Wardrobe

&

Trunks. Ornaments. Cutlery. E P.. Brass. Glass and Porcelain "Ware.

Gramophones & Records. Pictures, Clocks, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc.¦

also

A FEW PLECES OF BLACKWOOD

FURNITURE

and

2 Radio Sets

1 Cine Projector

1 Treadle Sewing Machine

しい

Joaded where British ships are with supplies for Britain and Egypt.

Observers said that the explo- throughout sions apparently occurred in Japan have decided to disband number of heavily laden barges. because of the international situa. The Coast Guard and fire boats tion and the increasing Govern-raced to the rescue. ment control.

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Two people were killed and 55 people were injured some feared

Reuter) fatally- the fire. Clouds of Viceroy of dense smoke swept the Wall Street for Simia strict

as lunch-hour crowds

cub

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GENERAL GRASETT AND S'PORE

ideas of strategy in many coun- BOMBAY, Aug. 19 tries, with the exception of Ger- Lord Linlithgow, the many, have been vitlated by the India, left yesterday The spokesman added: "The Sn-cult of the defensive and of thus concluding

his three-week poured out from offices, tour of the Madras and Bombay viets are tough in their resistance merity often concealed under that

FREIGHTER ENGULFE) imposing longer more

word prudence Presidencies. The purpose of this The fire which began with bone day they will no

beckmousoon tour was to renew be able to resist the enormous Gel-Far too much, stress has

con- 'series of explosions, sending Already man pressure,

one can laid on the value of

EJA-(6) forulfed tants and inspect the progress of flames 125 feet into the air, en- predict that despite their seeming-nes of defence and of

natural the war effort in these Presiden-gulfed the Cuba Mail Line pler at defence cies.

Brooklyn, set an American freight- ly inexhaustible supplies of men obstacles, while the real

several er and

laden

DEFENSIVE “ZONES" barges and materials, the will to victory of a country is never sufficiently of the German soldiers will bring recognised or stressed.

JERUSALEM, Aug. 18 (Reuter)-aflame and threatened to spread

IN INDO-CHINA inal success for German arms" Fuat real defences in men ad The former Commander of Iraqi to a nearby pler used by British

ships.

VICTORIA (British Columbia), The official German news agency their leaders "It is men and not roya; bodyguard and a number of

TOKYO, Aug. 19 (Reuter)-Two Aug. 19 Reuter) "We are ex- The American freighter Patuco, also reports that the "remnants" wails who are the defences at a army officers suspected of com-

or three minor problems" remain tremely strong in Malaya. Any at- laden with quickstiver, minerals of four Soviet infantry divisions city," said the Romans of nid. plicity in the Ruschid All revolt

to be settled regarding Japanese tempt to take Singapore would be TIME FACTOR

the have been placed on

and hemp, caught fire, retired were wiped at by a Nazi pincer

ww.s Inose and drifted off blazing from troops sent to Indo-China, accord-

a very heavy undertaking," de- movement in the Nikolaiev utca Marshal Budenny's strategy and list, according to a Baghdad tele

ing to Major-General Sumita, clared Major-General A. E. Grasett, A flaming barge yesterday. The Soviet troops, it indeed that of the whole Russian gram. A military court has been

the Japanese Military C.O.C. of the British Forces in says, were trying to break through Army is probably dictated not by se up to try offenders who took was cast adrift and fivated lazily Mission in Indo-China.

down the river while fire-boats

China for the past two years, in to road in German hands. They; the defence of obstacles, natural part in the rising.

threw tons of water on it.

He stated yesterday that he will an interview here on his arrival made a last stand along a rall or artifical

Five fire alarms

discuss these problems, from Hongkong. were received shortly way embankment, which is said be made of such, but the necessity

at the Brooklyn Fire Station, from which include the allotment

Major-General Grasett added: have been piled with Russian of gaining time and the Impor-Japanese living in the large de-which firemen sped to keep the defensive "zones" between Japan-It is my considered opinion that tance of wearing out the Germans, fence area in the southeast corner blaze from spreading to the pier ese and French troops, with Ad- unless she becomes really desperate HUNGARIAN CLAIM

If such are the principles un- of Johore have been given notice where almost daily

shios miral Decoux, Vichy Governor-

Japan will not be so rash as to The report makes no inention derlying the strategica) conceptions to leave within 14 days. It is be-load supplies

¡General.

fight Britain or the United States." of any Russian prisoners beinx of the Russian Command, Marlieved that more than 60 persons LAMMERT BROS. taken but a Hungarian daim issued shat Budenny is not likely to be are concerned, most of them be- in the communique iast night falling back to the Int of the ing rubber estate proprietors and refers to several thousand pri- Dnieper because it is the next mine-owners. Boners and considerable booty obstacle to defend but because he from the battle ground of Niko is not ready to deliver the cour latev,

ter attack which will drive "Since and destroy his enemy.

1 Hand Sewing Machine

On View from Thursday.

the 31st August, 1941

dead

Terms

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AUCTIONEERS.

Nazis Start

New Drive In

The Direction

Of Leningrad

The communique says:

when

full

1150 may

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SINGAPORE. Aug, 19 (Reuter).

WASHINGTON. Aug. 19 (Reuter hack-President Roosevelt has signed

the fighting on August 8. our A counter-attack of the scale troops advanced between 120 and necessary to achieve that much 160 milles along the River Bug 10 t be desired object may not be take part with the German forces ready for some weeks, perhaps

a Bill exempting men over from military service.

23

SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 19 (Reu-

in the battle round Nikolaley. Our some months, or quite possibly notter) The French Consul here has resigned stating that he motorcyclists caused heavy losses until after the Germans have been

to an enemy superior in numbers exposed to all the rigours of a could not represent a government LONDON, Aug. 19 (Reuter) |

who fought fiercely while our winter campaign in Russia while which is now under German do- The latest reports indicate that a new German thrust is developing cavalry checked all his attempts Europe is rising in revolt behind

north of Lake Peipus from the Estonian frontier in the direction

of Leningrad, writes "Annalist,"

to break out."

FORCES JOINED?

them

We cannot at present ix a date

Accoramg to a Stockholm me for such a stroke but it may be It is not yet possible to estimate sage to the Italian news agency taken for granted that such is be- the strength of the German push quoted by Rome Radio, it is claiming contemplated and prepared which may be part of a concerted ed that German troops advancing

movement

with the Finns who along both sides of Lake Petpus

are also showing activity around on the Estonian Kexholm

quiet

many re-

frontier have GENERAL DENTZ

STILL HELD

joined the forces to the north. There 16 comparative

The Russians in Estonia, it is and around Smolensk

stated, are thus cut off by the Ger- ports speak of indications that mans in the 30-miles wide neck the Germans are digging them of land between Lake Peipus and selves in In this region. They the Baltic. have certainly desleted from the

NOTHING DECISIVE costly efforts to smash through The situation in Russia has which were features of the first changed slightly to the advantage Reuter's Diplomatic correspondent, of the Germans and the occupa- In any case, the Syrian Armis-

Elx weeks' fighting.

At Kiev too, conditions are more tion of Nikolaiev on the

or less static and the two arms of

estuary

LONDON, Aug. 19 (Reuter Nothing is known in London of reports by the Lyons Radio of a protest by the Vichy Government regarding alleged attempts to take over French troops in Syria, writes

of the River Bug can be claimed the great pincer movement have as a success. Nevertheless, it is Deen stafionery at Korosten in the only a local one. They have gath northwest and Byelaya-Tserkov in nothing decisive, writes Reuter's detention of General Dentz but the southeast,

TENACIOUS RESISTANCE

to

how 11

Ranstedt Roosevelt Has

mination,

NO COMPULSORY CENSORSHIP

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (Reuter) -When asked if President Roose-

velt had approved the recommen-

dation of the Navy and Army chiefs for compulsory censorship of all communications in and out of America the President's Secre- tary, Mr. Stephen Early, declared that the President was unaware of the existence of any such Bill. Mr. Early added that the Presi- dent could not imagine the source of such, a report except that it was the Wilhelmstrasse or someone in America who thought nore of Germany than he did of the Unit- ed States,

US. ARMY SERVICE

Conference

tice terms provide that these men shall have the libery or opting to Join the Free Frenen forces.

Vichy has protested against the

Military commentator.

until Britain is satisfled that a Without knowledge of the laces British prisoners who were remov

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. (Reuter} The weight of the German drive it is not possible to say

ed from Syria have been returned has been transferred to the south was that the Germans could bring to British lands, there is no like-President Roosevelt yesterday ern Ukraine but the armies of superior forces bear on the hood of any change in the Bri-signed the Army Service Extension attitude in regard to this Bill which thus becomes law. The Marshal Budenny have not been southern end of Marshal Brdenny'atish

had sufficient matter.

Blll extends military service for cut off and are still clinging tena-line, for we have

to feel sure that ciously to some positions In the evidence now

A number of prisoners have at selectees (conscripts) National bend of the Dnieper River.

without superior numbers on this ready been returned from France Guardsmen and reservists by: 18 It is too early to say whether Jocal battlefeld the Germans could but details are lacking as to how months, making a service pertott

exploit not have driven back the Russians many are still being detained. of two and a half years,*** the Germans will try to their successes here and try to far as they have. force the Dnieper with View to It looks, however, as if the Nazis threatening the Don coal basin. on the left of Marshal Runstedt's Any such movement with large army in the direction of Kiev have Russian forces still undefeated on been armly held and that their at the left flank or the advance tacks were repulsed. The Ger would be a venturesome proposi-mans seems to be equally held on tion. It is more likely that Hitler the roads to Moscow and · Leritn- will fiing in his sorely tired troops grad, sgainst the central sectors in the hope that these sectors will have The Russian's strategy is proj been weakened by the despatch of bably governed by such questions help to Budenhy. But, auch specusa: Are their divisions in reserva lation is pure guesswork

which are still fresh, fully equipped, tative Sol Bloomi. or must they wait a while before

They are expected in turn to The President gave a complote they can be provided with the full explain to President Roosevelt the outline of his talks with Mr JAPANESE TOLD TOquipment necessary for battle latest developments in the legisla Ohurchill, sald Benator Connally

And how long will it take to contive altuation./q- LEAVE PENGARANG Contrate them at certain points

(Chairman of the Senate Foreign President Roosevelt gave Hils Con- Belations Committee) after, tha SINGAPORE, Aug. 19 (Central) and bring them, forward to launchgressional lieutenants a picture of meeting. "I do not believe that Japanese residents in Pengarang the great counter attack which the dramatic Churchill-Roosevelt any commitments. were minde District. southern Johore, have must be delivered, and be auctalks and also discussed Turther which would in any way alter our been informed that they must reastuj before the Germans can be tease-Lend appropriation position towards the war he move out of the area. The action driven from the soll of Russia?' Senator Barkley, leaving after cald,

was taken under the new regula-

· RUSSIAN · STRATEGY

With Key Men In Congress

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (Reuter) --- President - Roosevelt yesterday summoned to the White House key men in Congress connected with foreign affairs to give them a full account of the International situation.

'Those who assembled in the President's study Included the Vice-President, Mr. Henry Wallace, Senator® Albin - Barkley, Senator Tom Connally, Senator: Walter F. George and Represen -

Is these questions whichivo minutes. told reporters that the Senator Connally expressed the tions prohibiting Japanese to ro- should decide how long the Rus meeting was very interesting" opinion that further Lease-Lend alde within 10 miles of the slan Command la prepared to but confidential He disclosed appropriation. would be about defence, arons.

*** fight delaying actions and bathicsibat the question of further Lease: $4,000,000,000 but declared, “Hy **Japanese rojident, in Singapore of exhaustion before it considered Lend appropriation was discussed far, the greater part of the origin- ... are at present, not affected by the that the moment has arrived for and that the Japanese attuation at $7,000,000,000, has not yet boen

assumption of the offensive, ?... was mentioned only casually. expended."

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