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Soviet Forces Taking The Initiative In South Kiev: Heavy Fighting Reported

LONDON, Sept. 2 (Reuter) - Fresh counter-attacks by Mar- shal Budenny's forces south of Kiev and un the lower course Di the Dnieper are reported by the official German news agency.

Soviet forces, says the agency, supported by artillery and gun- boats, on Sunday made an attempt to guln the western bank of the Dnieper south of Kiev. This attach was frustrated with heavy losses to the Russians who did not succeed in reaching the western bank.

Strong Russian forces attacked German positions on the Tower course of the Dnieper. These attacks were repulsed with severe losses for the Russlan

In this defensive battle one troops. The Finn regiment was

thousand prisoners were taken routed. Out of 2.000 Finnis whe The agency also states that penetrated to our rear, no. more violent fighting took place on than 600 men managed to евскре Sunday in the centre of the tront from the encirclement, and claims that 25 Sovlet. Lack! including eight of the 52-ton type, were destroyed In this section

FINN REGIMENT ROUTEN

MOSCOW, Sept. 2 (Reuter; An SS. division and une Fin- nish brigade were thrown against one Soviet regiment in the N stetor of the western front, says Moscow's supplementary comme nique yesterday.

"Forty machine-guns. many mortars. rifles and other milltary equipment were captured or troyed."

dex-

The Russian report says that, according to the Soviet communi- Que nearly all Company com handers and eight or nine cut of every 12 were killed.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1941. -PAGE 91

INDIAN WOMAN Major-Gen. Mackay (Of Libya) Sees Son In S'pore

LEADER HOPES

FOR EARLY SINO VICTORY

"Indian people are greatly i pressed by and deeply sympathiz- ed with China's present resistance to Japanese aggression," declared Madame Kamaladevi, Vice Presi- dent of the All-India Women's Congress, who WHS the guest of bouour at a tea reception given by the cultural bodies in Chung- king.

(TRIBUNE STAFF REPORTER>

Major-Gen, Ivan Mackay (Ivan the Terrible to his adversariés), famous military commander in Bardia and Libya, passed through Singapore on his way to Australia, where he will take up his new appointment as Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces.

When local pressmen met bim at his hotel yesterday, he greeted them courteously, and fired his first question, which was, "Are you Singapore pressmen as dangerens as pressmen in other parts of the world are said to be?" and when he was reassured with a

spon.- laneous "No." be sat down and chatted with his interviewers. Gen Mackay said that he had one wound, several mentioned in nothing much to tell, and asked despatches, the Distinguished Ser- Praising China's war of resis

Kamaladevi re-

the press to appreciate his post-vice Order and Bar, and a Com- tance, Madame

tion.

panionship of St. Michael and St vealed that Indian National Con-

Questioned he said that condi- George. gress had done a great deal to

tions in the Middle East were im- Mackay thus demonstrated acquaint Indian people about China by lectures and by organiz-proving all the time and empha again the total absence of military ing special occasins called "China sised that the morale of the troops caste which has marked the Aus-

are very high. "They Days." Madaue Kumaladevi ex- pressed her sincere hope for early ready for their next campaign,

Chinese victory.

Madame Kalamadevi left. Chung- king on Friday en route to India

(Central News).

More than 500 high

WBS

all traitan Imperial Force from the

whatever It w and wherever it be. The flow of American goods, es

Pecially equipment, was reaching

beginning of its history.

Mackay maintained his military connexions on his return to this

country. He served as peace-time

the Middle East very satisfactorily, officer in the Commonwealth Mill- he said.

tary Forces from 1937 until 1 day came to play his part in what he called Round Two of the strng. gle against tyranny.

Guerla detachments continuec "Our Red Army men

Fin defended to harass the Gerinan and themselves courageously, attacking nich troups who have seized cer the enemy on all sides. Soon an Wain parts of the Karellan other unit joined

10 our regiment. nish Republic, according strengthening the resistance at the Soviet communique. Incating Soviet troops Despairing of enemy's weak spots and inflicting quarters breaking our defenreg by counter-evere losses upon him by des Government officials were present

and including making night attacks upon small man of the National Government been no C-in-C. Home Forces in Through forest and murales, Pemy detachments the Finnish regtiment succeeded in. Eneny nes at communications, shek. penetrating to our rear. where

attacks, the Germana decided

try and encircle our unit.

troying bridges and

stures

When asked whether his new KUNG REPORTS ON appointment had any significance INTERNAL AFFAIRS in view of the present tension in

Mackay's history in the present CHUNGKING, Sept. 2 (Central, the Far East. he replied that he A largely attended United Week.did not think do. The authorities war, is really the history of the

had decided to have a Comman- A.J.F Finly Memorial Service was held yer

der-in-Chief

the Australian There ts a great deal abou the terday morning at the auditorium ¦

Austra - the of the National Government Head. Home Forces some time ago and Mackay that appeals to

they were just carrying out thetr¦ Blans. Be is a splendid sportsman

riginal decision.

and has won honours in the games that Australians love.

He was Rugby, he gained a Blue in rowing. a University Blue in

and one of his pleasant recrea - tions was to ride buck jumpers.

ELS Americans know them outlaw horses. When he felt the need of less strenuus exercises he shot the boisterous Sydney suri

Ar

In

Sen. Chair·

His appointment was. however the first of its kind, there having

ani Generalissimo Chiang Kai- |

Australs hitherto.

|

Following the ceremony presided many cases have been destroy- counted upon creating pattle inled and ronds were mined. says over by Chairman Lin, Dr H. R.

Kung, Vice President

and Minister enemy, Executive Yuan

In ar ranks, but the Finns made a Soviet repurt

one case £ mistake,"

forest through which the the communique says

"The Red Army repulard all al tacks and more Soviet reinforce ments arrived. In Berce engage mints. the Finns

were

throwi

the

ni

was moving was se are on all: Finance, made a lengthy report.

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causing great

de- losses on the latest international

affairs. amongst the Finns and Germans velopments and internal

According to another Soviet re. He dwelled at length on measures back. Still more Russian re-, pot. thousands of Belgian of river conservancy. food control, foreements arrived and the Finns flents have been moved out from currency, finance and other phases: found themselves encircled by our hospitals in Brussels, Ghent, Ant-of Internal administration

weth and "!! ver towns following a

TRIBUTE TO

pa-

the German milltary authorities for housing German wounded.

About 40.000 German wounded are expected to arrive any day in Belgium, the report says.

recent order of the German High INDIAN TROOPS IN Command that all Belgian hospt-!

MIDDLE EAST TIMPERLEY PAYS tals or placed at the disposal of

SIMLA Sept. 2 (Reuter --In dian troops in the Middle East are standing up admirably to climate variations and the

mechanistd ours of

warfare, is officially stated here.

On ell fronts the Western Desert, Sudan, Eritrea, Iraq and Syria their general health bas explov, ben excellent and the meldente

military diseases commun to

N.E.I. CHINESE

A tribute to the petriotism of the Chinese community in the Nether. lands East Indles was paid by Mr. H. J. Timperley, correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, who has returned to Singapore from a visit to the N.E.I. where he con- sulled with the oral authorities on the possibility of cluser Bino Dutch, co-operation in the puhl! city field.

During his fortnight sojoure there. Mr. Timperley was enter. tained by Chinese leaders. Br found the Dutch officials mos!! friendly and helpful.

Mr. Timperley is planning te proceed to the United States by the next Clipper on Sept. 8 ur route to London -- (Central News

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U.S. Sending Special Malaria-Control Mission

The United States Government has decided to send a special American mission to China for the specific purpose of combatting malaria along the projected Burma Railway, it is learned from authoritative quarters here. The mission, composed of 16 members including medical experts, marlologists, sanitary engineers, will be sent under the Lend-Lease administration and expected to arrive in Yunnan early this fall.

Plans now being mapped out for, Tomilson, former assistant surgeon

control malaria

for the entire of the US. Public Health Service;

There was no possibility of bis going

England in the near future. He had met his son, who is at present serving "somewhere in Malaya" and said that he was very glad to have met him, especially as he had not seen him for nearly 18 This, then, is the man who has length of the Burma Railway re Dr. W.L Jeilson, entomologist; months.

been appointed 10

prepare present one of the biggest malaria Fred W. Thomas and Edward R. Mackay of Cyrenaica, as Aus

Australia's Home Defences for

projects in operation anywhere to Lacey, sanitary engineers loaned tra'lans know their newly appoint- their role in any war emergency day in the world. The mission, in by the Tennessee Valler Authorl- vd General Officer Commanding threatening Australian territory.

addition to anti-malaria work, will ty: Dr. Gordon Smith, entomo- the Australian home forces, is a Nu better 15, sium and infld mannered man tralian

appointment, Aus handle all sanitation and public gist; Dr. F.P. Manget, Methodist comuneniators declare health work

for the labouring missionary with long experience in who belies the nlekname of "Ivan could have been made at this m

population of some 260,000 men. China, who will supervise medical the Terrible" given to him by the and in this place.

Dr. The United States, it is annon care of the labourers; and Anzacs during the last Great War. Mackay is the sort of soldier ced, will allocate US$1,150,000 of Paul Stevenson of the Rockefeller Son of a Presbyterian minister. that Australians get along with the Lease-Lend Funds for this Foundation who has been working and before the war, headmaster He is eminently or that class work. The sending of the mission with medical centres and hospitáls of a large Sydney school, Major-whom the Commonwealth War indicates that the US is not in China for 20 years (Central General Sir Ivan Giffard Mackay Historian, Dr. Charles E. W. Bean, merely providing material and News), is a mixture of cold courage and has so often praised. He is first supplies for China to carry on her Lenacity.

and foremost a citizen. The fact resistance, but is also giving as- He is one of the commanders that he wears the uniform of high sistance in every way possible. The of the triumphant British Army of military office has not made him supplies for the building of the the Nile which polled up the less a citizen.

Burma Railway are also being pro- Fascist forces in Egypt and Libya,

In him, indeed, the qualities of vided for under the Lease-Lend at Sidi-Barrani, Bardia

the high staff officer and the plain enactaments. and de not is so astonishingly low as to Tobruk. His record 15 a soldier man are so harmoniously blended

The mission, formed by Surgeo equals in brillance his record as

that this new appointment can General Thomas Patran, Jr., of scholar and educator.

only mean, for him, new success the United States Public Health Soon after graduating from He is a descendant of Scots, and Service. will be headed by Dr.

determined. He 15 an Victor S. Haas, former head of the Wed. came junior demonstrator in phy-Australian, and he has a high eon-U.S. Public Health Service who is sics at the University, and later ception of the role this country now stationed at Memphis, Tenn. Resident Master and Sports Mas

must plan in this present struggle. Dr. Haas and D.E. Wright, Rocke-Fri. ter al the Sydney Church of Eng.

He is a student, and he knows feller Foundation Sanitary Engin- land Grammar School

that this Commonwealth has an eer, will leave from San

Fran- Sat The outbreak of the last war obligation not only to itself, not cisco soon to put the project in found him back at the University only to its friends in the Pacific, operation.

but to the world demonstrating physics, but the

Others assigned to the project. Arst bugle call brought him into!

Armed with this knowledge, he are Dr. Marshall Balfour of the

A special radlo announcement last night reported Soviet air raids on Berlin, Koenisberg, Danzig and Memel during August 31.

Incendiary and high bombs were dropped on targets at all four places. One Soviet machine

return

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CHINA AND CANADA TO Sydney University in 1940, be he he is

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PRE-PAID ADVERTISEMENTS.

Marking another step forward in the cementing of closer diplomatic relations between China and British Dominions, the Changking Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced recently the mutual decision of the two Governments for an exchange of Ministers, A statement Issued by the Following so closely on the an- the AIF, and he left Australia as Will play his new role with vigour Rockefeller Foundation Interna Ministry said that relations be-nouncements of the first Chinese; a Captain. tween the two countries have al- Minister to Australta and the first; Ivan Mackay's military career The tenth annual meeting of

ways been friendly and the ex-Australian Minister to China, the was one of steady progress and change of Ministers will not only latest diplomatic move between from rank of Captain Adjutant of the Chinese Engineering Society (8 scheduled to be held in Kwelyang ties but also forge a stronger link as

further enhance these friendly China and Canada is widely halled the Fourth Battalion at Callipoli

a sign early this month.

ever-increasing he rose in France, to that of Offi- Delegates to the meeting

in the anti-aggression bloc in the friendship and co-operation be- cer Commanding the First Aus- Pacific.

tween China and the British Em-tralian Infantry Brigade, arriving in large numbers from

In the Though the names of candi-pire (Central News) various parts of the country

meantime he had collected at least dales for the new post of the first (Central News).

Minister to Canada are being kept i confidential, well-informed pri CHUNGKING, Sept. 2 (Central) vate circles said the most hopeful -Twenty-seven Japanese planes candidate is a recently recalled staged a very brief raid un the diplomat from Europe now visit- suburban areas of Chungking up-ing in the United States river yesterday afternoon. NO At present China only main- raldors, however, appeared over tains two consulates in Canada.

namely at Ottawa and Vancouver.

Chungking Proper.

are

MALAYAN FUNDS FOR A.R.P. IN LONDON

(TRIBUNE STAFF REPORTER)·

Reports of the Finance Committer tabled at the meeting ef the Federal Council in Singapore Include an item of $1,860.362, approved by the Committee as special expenditure resulting from a gift to the Imperial Government for the prosecution of the

war.

The amount represents additional import Customs duties Imposed from Dec. 1, 1939, to Aug. 1 last year.

F.M.S.R. TO BUILD $350,000 SHELTERS

(TRIBUNE STAFF REPORTER) `·

The big increase in F.M.S. rail traffic has presented the F.M.S.K. with urgent problems in regard to maintenance costs, and to meet these the Flaanet Committee of the Federal Coun- ell has approved of the Raltways' 1940 estimate of maintenance costs of $1,800,750 being increased by $140,100.

The following chases of advertisements are charged at the price gwn below:- SITUATIONS VACANT. HOUSES AND APARTMENTS WANTED.

HOUSES AND APARTMENTS TO BE LET. MISCELLANEOUS WANTS.

Announcements not exceeding 25 Words are inserted under this heading at a Pre-paid

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WE PAY HIGH PRICES for all gold and silver articles. Tade, diamonds. jewels, watches. fountain pens. Apply Far East This additional cost is mainly to j Other items of extra expenditure Diamond and Gold Refining Co., pay for the speeding up of the for the railway include $360,000 Room 621, China Building, 6th programme for major overhaul of for A.R.P. shelters, lighting con-floor 'Sundays and Holidays | wagons and carriages at the Cen-trol in station yards, station

tral Workshops.

buildings etc., training and equip-. The 1941 estimate was based on hent pf first ald men and fre an output of repaired rolling fighters, protection of vital points stock of 175 carriages and 1,400 1e.. signal cabins etc. dispersal wagona,

of stores..

"Experience over the past few months," states the Finance Com- mittee's report tabled at the

DISTINGUISHED U.S. The report also indicates that Increased prices of goods orgter-recent meeting of the Counell, ADMIRALS RETIRE for the test mobilisation of thesed and the necessity for buliding "shows that the above is quite in-

WASHINGTON, Bept, 1 (Reuter F.MS. Volunteer Torcas in 1940, up. stocks of equipment and stores adequate to meet actual demands $557,000 WAS needed to meet all for the F.M.B. electrical depart-as casualties are more numerous Two distinguished naval carcers expenses, To this was added ment increased Government ex-with the more extensive use have were ended on Bunday with the 530,260 paid out to the volunteera penditure last year by $64.165.10. ing to be made of wagon stock in retirement of Rear-Admiral Joseph

For similar reasons the Publle traffle working.

Taussig, horo of the Feking Re- Brivil liability allowances,

Works Department asked for an UNUSABLE CONDITION

lief Expedition of 1990, and Rear- "At present, the railway is un. Admiral Hayne Ella, former Com- during the year, which was sum, the Finabee Commitee re-able to use the full capacity of mander of the Atlantic Squad- unforeseen and not included in the ports, they also approved.

Its available wagon stock as over [ron,

Dwyfurther big, item of expend-extra $250,338 last year and this

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