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FINAL EDITION GILMAN'S
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FOUNDED 1881
No. 10402
一拜戳辦三廿月六英港香
MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1941.
日光廿月五
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FIRST REPORTS OF SAVAGE NAZI
MILITARY ATTACKS ON
Karelian Isthmus Offensive: Alliance? Anglo-Russo-U.S.
Special to the "Telegraph"
MILITARY REPORTS OF THE LATEST PHASE IN THE EUROPEAN WAR-GERMAN INVASION OF RUSSIA And soviet-occupied terRITORY—ARE NOW BEGINNING TO POUR IN AND "UNITED PRESS" HAS SENT EXCLUSIVE MESSAGES TO THE "TELEGRAPH" A STOCKHOLM REPORT SAYS THAT A JOINT FINNISH- FROM SEVERAL CENTRES. GERMAN ATTACK IS TAKING PLACE ON THE KARELIAN PENINSULA DIRECTED AGAINST LENINGRAD.
From the same city comes a “United Press" despatch quoting Moscow Radio as asserting that an alliance between Russia, Britain and the United States is now. under consideration.
A Berlin message from the same news agency, declares that the German High Command yesterday estimated that the Russian forces opposing the Nazis were as follows: 118 infantry divisions, 20 cavalry divisions, 40 motorised and panzer divisions, 1,800,000 armed forces are in positions to stem the Nazi onslaught.
REPORTED REVOLT
IN ESTONIA Red Army Fighting Rebels
Special to the "Telegraph”
STOCKHOLM, June 22 (UP)-The Tass" correspondent In Stockholm to-day claimed that he had received direct news from Moscow of n revolt in Estonia which has apparently been prepared for some time past and which is now in progress.
ULTIMATE OBJECT OF ATTACK
mate object of the German attack on
. He declared that the Red Army is successfully fighting the rebels..
The same correspondent revealed that he heard uncorrmed reports: that the rebels had succeeded in oc- cupying some, small armed ships in the Tallin harbour from where they?
the city.
· Helsinki Declaration HELSINKI, June 22 (UP}~~The
following omcial declaration was Is-
ofsued at 8.15 p.m.
"Britain's peril has not diminished.
This means that at least
At the same time, Major-General Johl, in a letter to the German Foreign Office, asserted that, four armies, comprising 49 infantry divisions, including motorised elements, three armoured divisions and 12 cavalry
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Itussia has army, which the Soviet claim is well equipped and thoroughly trained under war conditions. This pleture, faken during a de- monstration In the famed Red Square in Moscow, rives, sonie impression of the Russian mane. power.
Smashing Victory For R.A.F.
divisions are massed to the cast and southeast of the East 30 German Planes Downed
He
Prussian frontier and to the north of Moscow. added that nearly 2,000 Russian planes and men are in the airfields north of the Pripet Marshes.
Gestapo Rounds-up Soviets
Special to the "Telegraph” `
won the Battle of LONDON, June 22 (UP)-Hurricane planes flown by pilots who Britain scored one of the most resounding air victories of the war when they swept the Luft- 30 Mes- Against these estimated forces, Hitler at dawn on Sunday waffe's air bases in northern France for the sixth successive day, and brought down launched his armies with Fin-serschmitts with the loss of only two machines. land and Rumania on à 1,500 The German losses in this mile front from North Cape to area in the first two days were the Black Sen.
air
LATE NEWS
Troop Movements
In China
SPECIAL_TO_THE_"TELEGRAPH" SHANGHAI, June 23 (UP)-it is understood
Soviet Ships Sunk Claims Berlin
army units from North China are morning
58 planes, and 95 since the day- light offensive began, compared German Propaganda
with British losses of six and 26 Throughout Sunday, the German respectively. High Command, in accordance with
Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary its usual custom of revealing no mili. tary news unless on
int for Air, congratulated the Fighter Important
that no success had occurred, gave but little Command and stated details of the fighting; however, their activity had been reported over Eng- propaganda department sent out fre- land up to 8 p.m.
In-
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH!! are now firing-on-Russian troops in--ZURICH, June 29 (Reuter) quent-radio despatches which
---New Planes Downed description of a German air
BERLIN, June 22 (UP) Inform The Gestapo was engaged all cluded
LONDON, June. 23. (Reuter),
that Jorge Kwantung ed quarters stated that early this SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGNAPH"
German
boals The radio stations also described Many of the 58 Nazl Aghters brought day yesterday in a great round-raid or Soviet airfields.
speed
4,000-ton LONDON, June 23 (UP)-It is
with artillery do- loss of Ave planes were of the new moving to Shans! and other units are torpedoed and sank
waters, authoritatively stated that the "ulti-
of Russians in Berlin, accord-how German motorised troops and down in the past two days for the ing to the correspondent of the panzer divisions,
going to
to Honkow from Shanghal Russian steamer in Soviet tachments and Infantry had been Messerschmitt 100-F type.
Most of the British fighter pilots beilevedly in on attempt to occupy and destroyed a large Russian Ashing Russia is
destruction the
"Between six and seven o'clock "Neue Zuericher Zeitung." Democracy so that Britain is not in this morning the Soviet army vio- The German public, not informed moving and marching amid the torrid
It was added that a German plane comfortably by
at several until the last minute about Hitler's heat and bellowing clouds of disns who took part in yesterday's opera- Honan and Shens! where Chungking steamer "by an explosive charge." n position to sit
sociating dust
These reports make observers In-Informed the speed boat of the the Nazis and the Bolsheviks lated Finnish territory while
points.
move, are surprised with its sudden. pond, takist ucositions plons of lions poke on their return of the has concentrated large forces.
pilots.
clined to believe that Japan is con- shing steamer's location. knock each other about.
"At 6.05 a.m. several Russian ness and impressed by the vast size
The squadrons which acted as és- centraling on China at the present The propaganda reports stated that Britain believes that there is no pos-planes attacked two groups of Fin-of territory the German Army is now! Russian front positions along the lack of spirit shown by the German
the actual offensive started with corts to bombers on their way to and will not become engaged further sibility of a compromise with Hiller nish armoured vessels. No damage attacking.
clock-like precision-regiment after their target and back saw 60 Messer-ufeld. and that ho must be eliminated."
regiment and division after division schmitts us they were retuming to marching in the twilight in endless the coast.
"They out-numbered us but did The "Neue Zuericher Zeitung" columns and a stream of concentrated
not attempt anything in the way of comments editorially that Germany is forces.
a concerted attack," said a Squadron Odessa Raid, Report. now involved in the two-front war?
Leader, adding that the tactics of the At 0.25 Russian: planes dropped she has wanted to avoid because to "Domel" contributed two important Germans did not show much deter-
n great height on a
long as Russia is not crushed, Ger- despatches. One from Ankara cays mination. The Germans seemed to because Germany would thereupon Finnish vessel in the Turku archi-many will not be able to reicase all that according to unconfirmed ro-be looking for stragglers and dis- ports, the Nazis staged a most devas played reluctance to attack the moln possess sufficient vital wheat and pelig
tating attack on Odessa.
formation. petroleum supplies to hold off the
Another from Vichy declares that world for years.
according to military circles, the
One Canadian Sergeant Pilot, find- prir.cipal Nari thrust is directed on
ing that he had three Messerschmitts opinion that this would have no Kharkov in the Ukraine,
A further United Press" report on his tail, swung round at one of effect as Soviet shipments to China from Berlin quotes the official news them and, after one burst from his had noty virtually ceased during
the past three months. Found guilty lust Thursday agency the
to effect that German Suns, It blew up in the air.
Two squadrons each accounted for of the manslaughter while pursuit planes destroyed 383 out of 35 six aircraft. One of them was the
military objectives in Firland, near tinguished itself in the Battle of Bri
and
was caused. At 6.15 Rurasian planes They are undoubtedly influenced bombed the coast defences
in the land by the accusations that the prolonga- works at Alakack. What Nazi Victory Means WASHINGTON, June 22 (UP) archipeilgo. A few fires were caustion of the war was due to Russia.
was no important; Well informed quarters to-day as ed but there
quick German damajje. serted that victory over Russia would constitute
any
an unequalled disaster for Britain bombs from
Air Armada Over China
SIAN, June 23 (Central News)
her forces to attack Britain.
the southeastern frontiers, times over alrcraft flew. several Finnish territory
dropped und {bombs,"
Syrian Fighting
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEQRAPH"
VICHY, June 22 (UP)—IL
MANSLAUGHTER SENTENCE
Polish Squadron
An extensive rald over various eltles ofetally announced that an import-; driving a car, of Ho Sze. 67. Í kusalan planes which were attacking amous' Polish Squadron, which dis
of Shengl and Kansu was carried out ant British motorised unit from Iraq year-old Chinese woman at Kow- the frontier.
The same agency, reporting from tain last year.
Most of the German aircraft to by Japanese air squadron of 71 crossed the frontier advancing in the loon City on May 18, Private T. planes yesterday.
direction of Palmyra. French avle P. Durdan, 37, R.A.S.C., was this New York, says that the Germans day were shot down over enemy ter-
described the first aerial attack on Flying in nine groups, the Japanese tion hotly attacked the motorised
to alx
the Russian airfield at Windau which ritory out several were encountered aircraft-zubjected Slon, Ankang, Pao- units, bombing and machine-gunning morning sentenced
months' imprisonment,
is on the Latvian coast. Here, the over the Channel on their return
journey. chi, Wuwel nd other towns to severo them throughout the morning.
Nazis claim, 30 Russian planes were
French Success bombing
destroyed or. the ground.
Slan was under air raid alarm for
the whole day yesterday.
Szechwan and Sikong CHUNGKING, June 22 (Central News)-Forty-four Japanese planes,
In three groups, ralded, Szechwan and Sukong yesterday morning.
The first group of ten machines bornbed Ya-nn in Sikong, while the second batch consisting of 27 planes dropped bumbs on Kwangyuan in morthern Szechwan near the Shensi border.
The
third group of seven planen, after penetrating Pachung in eastern Szechwan, flew back to its base with out dropping bombs.
Germany's New May Estrange
Special to the "Telegraph"
Action Japan
Russian Aid To Chungking
Rumanians Take Bolgrad, Claim
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ROME, June 22 (UP)—The Ste- fani news agency's correspondent at SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" the Rumanian-Soviet front reports SHANGHAI, June 23 (UP)-Com-thrat Rumanian motorised units havo German menting on the Russo-German war occupled the city of Bolgrad after a in northern Japanese militarists this morning sald five-hour march, while that the war would result in the ces troops are advancing sation of Moscow's ald to Chungking. Bukovinn
the However, they expressed
SWEDISH SHIPS ORDERED HOME
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGNAPH" STOCKHOLM, June, 22 (UP)- The Swedish Parliament is expected to meet on Wednesday or Thursday. In the meantime ali Swedish ships in the Battle have been ordered to rush back to Swedish poris.
was Britain Offers
All Possible
The Radio added that German One Messerschmitt was destroyed assault troops were equipped with by a French pilot who sald, "It the most modern type of assault guns, crashed into the water like a torpedo and that, by shortly after 3 o'clock TURN to Back Pago, Column 3 on Sunday morning had overrun_tho
Arst Russian positions along the East Prussian border,
FINNS FACE NEW WAR
GERMANS IN MANILA
Special to the "Telegraph"
Russia Aid
LONDON, June 22 (UP)—Britain's first impressive renc tion to the Russo-German war was to move drastically to end the 22 months of unsatisfactory, unfriendly British-Soviet reix-
Nowhere To Go tions and to offer Moscow all possible ald.
to least a
་
TOKYO, June 22 (UP)-Thus far there is every indication that no tension exists in Russo-Japanese relatons. At the
Mr Eden, the Foreign Secre- declaration to M. Maisky that in view same time, officials and the press during the past week have 're-
MANILA, June 22 ((UP).---The) peatedly emphasised that, Japan would abide by her tripartite
LONDON, June 22 (Router). The "Manila Bulletin" reported that at fary, invited M. Maisky, the of the Russo-German war, Britain Some observers saw the possibility Finnish Government, according commitments.
the war against Germany but would dozen German residents of Russian Ambassador to visit would not only continue to prosecuto Technically, Japan. under the that Japan might become estranged the Swedish radio, has published & Mouila including several important him. Before M. Maisky hurried intensify it.
rushed to look to the Foreign Offico from his The news that, the IA.F. had shot CANADA'S GREAT tripartite pact, might be called from Germany because of the communique, stating: "We find our businesmen who
upon to join Germany against neutrality pact, particularly since the selves in the immediate danger zone, passage for Germany when German-interrupted weekend in the coun-down 30 Messerschmills to-day may
our security, reservista American relations became
Drsurance to the Soviets, WAR LOAN
have already Russia on the basis of Hitler's i recent manifestations of more friend- To increase heen called up for ser- are now stranded hero duo to the try, he conferred with Mr Wing, be the first application of Britain's
Churchill, the
Prime. While Mr Eden visited Mr Chur
chili this afternoon and discussed the 22 (Reuter) claim that Russla invaded Ger- ly relations and a more vigorous
we should be on our guard.
Most of them booked to leave on Minister.
latest developments, M. Maisky hna- Canada's victory, loan of 1941 closed many; however, best informed effort at adjustment of Japanese-vice. Now more than ever before, closure of the trans-Siberian route.
American relations.
Free, independent Finland expects an unnamed Japanese ship on July 13 Eden gave M. Malsky sur-tened to the Saviot Embassy and on Saturday, with a total subscription circles do not anticipate any
that overy citizen will at this exact-but were forced to cancel their re- Mr of $710,000,000 which breaks the re- Japaness participation immeul- The new developments are intering time retain his self-control, calm-servations, some of them admitting ances which the Russians afterwards cabled Moscow the British Govern cord for all Great War victory bars lately. It is recalled that Japan that Japan' would bide her time befly - cherry on with his work and doi that they did not know what to do described as being "all right." Ac- ment's invitation to that the Soviet
of the loan was needs
Mr Ellen also made an important All. 8800,000,000, according to Mr. J. L Ilainy!
Minister of Finance. Russia.
OTTAWA, June
preted as additional influence and
Batayla negotiations,
and her peoples happy future."
ties.
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