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Hongkong Telegraph

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No. 16504

TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1941. 日四十月六

REDS COUNTER-ATTACK

IN UKRAINE: NAZIS

REPULSED

Special to the "Telegraph"

ELSEWHERE

LONDON, JULY 7 (UP)—ACCORDING TO A BROADCAST BY RADIO MOSCOW, RUSSIAN TANKS Have countER-ATTACKED IN THE UKRAINE WAR FRONT, AS A RESULT OF WHICH THEY DES- TROYED 300 GERMAN TANKS, SEIZED TWELVE LONG-RANGE GUNS, "AND CAPTURED 500 PRISONERS.

NAZI DESTROYERS SUNK

LONDON, July 7 (Reuter).—A Russian communique states that the Russians have repulsed numerous German attempts to break through at the Ostroff sector. During the night, the Russians took a heavy toll of German tanks.

Two German destroyers were sunk in a naval battle when German forces were trying to penetrate the Gulf of Riga.

All night long, German efforts to cross the river in western Dvina in the Podolsk sector were fiercely contested.

The Russians also frustrated German motorised attempts to break through to the cast in the Novograd Volinsk sector.

In the Bessarabian sector, the Russians have flung back the Germans to their original positions with heavy losses.

TOWNS & CONVOYS ATTACKED

British Pilots In Heavy Actions

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LONDON, July 7 (Router).~ The R.A.F. continued is offen- sive against the enemy's western front to-day, says

Air Ministry communique.

Heavy bombers, escorted by fighters, attacked aircraft works at Meaulte and the power-station

factory and chemical Bethune. Both targets were hit by powerful bombs and many incendiaries.

near

The escort shot down seven enemy fighters. Three British fighters were Inst but two of the plots were rescued front the sen.

Bomber Command Blenheims attacked a strongly-escorted convoy of eight enemy ships of 6.000 tons off The Dutch count. Six ships were hit

HELSINKI RAIDED

HELSINKI, July 7 (Reuter).—Enemy planes have bombed different places in Finland.

Helsinki was raided to-day when one person was killed, 20 were wounded and buildings were damaged,

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Bombs were dropped in Kotka during the night of Sunday Monday. Many fires were caused and 20 houses were damaged.

Five raiding planes are re- ported to have been shot down.

Hungarian Operations BUDAPEST, July 7 (Router).-On Saturday and Sunday, Hungarian troops carried out flanking attacks against the enemy, states a Hungarian Supreme Command communique.

Panzer divisions particularly dis- Hngulshed themselves.

RUSSIA'S CHANCES OF VICTORY

(DY "RCUTER'S" MILITARY CORRESPONDENT)

LONDON, July 7 (Reuter).- Latest news of the Russo- German struggle is favourable to the Russians though that does not mean that the battle is yet won. This is, perhaps, the most decisive battle in the world's history and is the greatest in front. numbers breadth engaged and the weight of equipment.

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The fate of Russia is not the only

"In some places, our troops are advancing

Dneister, the castern side of

7 (Reuter)-A

says the cornmunique. Bessarabia Sector LONDON, July

Germans-have-repelled "counter- German communique claims that the attacks in Bessarabia and that they continue to advance.

U.S. Takes Over

In Iceland

America has sent troops to Iceland to take over from the British forces which have been stationed there sluce shortly after the out- break of war. Henceforth, America will protect this strategical outpost of the Atlantic. Picture shows the town of Reykjavik in Ice- land and its harbour. Ice- land was former Danish province.

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Heavily Damaged by R.A.F.

LONDON, July 7 (Reuter).-A “particularly successful" attack on enemy shipping by

the R.A.F. yesterday in the harbour at Palermo, Sicily, is announced in to-day's R.A.F. Middle East communique. Heavy damage was inflicted on several vessels.

An 8,000-ton ship was hit by two bombs and hits were also made on ships of 5,000 and 2,000 tons. A ship of 1,000 tons was set on fire by three bumbs und' emitted clouds of smoke

Sees Japan As Threat

OPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH"

In Bukovina, the Rumanians and Mr McNutt's Views Hungarians have reached the upper Duckster and have captured Cernauti, Operations in Golicia continue on wide front beyond Sereth..

Mr

accompanied by explosions.

Another ship of 5,000 tons was hit by incendiary bombs.

In Syria

SYRIAN WAR

NEARING END

In Syria, RA.F. bomber-and- fighter aircraft continued to

the ANKARA, July 7 (Reuter).~ give active support to operations of the ground forces. The Syrian campaign has en- Last night, Aleppo acrodronie tered the final stage, in the WASHINGTON, July 7 (UP),

attacked. opinion of observers here who WAS successfully -Addressing the Chinese Colony Bombs fell on the runways and would not be surprised if an Battalion Annihilated MOSCOW, July 7 (Reuter)-A on the anniversary of the Sino-hangars, causing several firea Armistice was signed within a

conflict,

week. Paul and explosions. The same acro- Soviet communique states that the Japanese Germans have repeatedly attempted McNutt, Federal Security Ad- drome was attacked several An exchange of views is reported

Syria the to land large forces of troops on the ministrator and former High times during the previous night. to have taken place in

Commissioner to the Philippines | During last night's attack, three tsewhere with the aim of a settle-

the ment to avoid further bloodshed, to-day slated that American alreraft were set on

Nothing is known in London of interests in the Far East must ground and a number of others were not be abandoned in order to damaged or destroyed by incendiaries this report.

and machine-gunning. appease the "political machine which now happens to be in power at Tokyo."

question that is now being decideri, but the fate of every nation in the world, not excepting those on American continent.

by bombs.

The Blenheims attacked another convoy of Calais. One ship of 2,000

Hitler seeks world domination with tons and an escorting E-boat were

all peoples slaves of eighty million sunk.

Three Bomber Command and one Germans. Every plane and modern Coastal Command aircraft are miss-gun device, and every man who can ing from these operations.

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Sir Hubert Wilkins On

Russia's Man-Power

"Good and solid" is how Sir Hubert Wilkins, the noted explorer, described the Russian mun-power when asked for his views on the Soviet-German conflict by "Telegraph" reporter. Sir Hubert, who reached Hongkong yesterday in the course of a fact-finding tour of the Far East, bases this opinion on what he knows of the Soviets and their accomplishments, through per- sonal contact and active collaboration in scientific studies.

His Inst visit to Russia was

in 1938 when he was warmly welcomed by the Soviet authori- ties and had an opportunity to Arctic study the results of research undertaken by Ivan Papinin und other Soviet explorers.

The Russians, he said, are a very able people, intelligent, enthusiastic and resourceful, and he has been Immensely Impressed

by their Achievements in various spheres of activity, particularly in scientifle work. Their one fault, he

stated. was that they were. at times inclined to be inconsistent, and therefore it was difficult to forecast their ability to sustain their military effort which,. no far, has seemed to be wall directed and maintained.

Generous Bomber Fund Donations

Two splendid donations have been received on behalf of the Hamber Fund, in each casé being second donations. The first being a cheque for $5,000 from Messrs Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co, Ltit, and the second. $3,000 from Mr and Mrs Jack Mac- Arcgor.

The continued support from Messrs Caldbeck, „Macgregor & Co. Ltd. is especially grailtylne, when it is remembered that the Hrad OMee of the firm in Shang- haf has contributed most überally to British War Funde, as also

has the branch of the Company in Malaya.

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and

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, July 7. (UP). ---President Roosevelt nounced to-day that the United States has occupied Iceland.

In a special message to Con- gress, the President stated that American naval forces will sup- plement and replace the British troops in Iceland. He asserted that the Prime Minister of Ice- I had communicated with him and that he had replied.

"In accordance with that message, United States naval forces to-day arrived in Iceland to supplement and eventually, replace the British, forces which have been stationed there."

Fixed American Policy The President sald that the oc- cupation of Iceland was in accordance with the fixed American policy of refusing to "permit the occupation by Germany of strategie vuiposts in the Atlantle to be used as air or naval trases for an eventual attack on the Western Hemisphere."

He reiterated that the United States has no aspirations for the permanent acquisition of these outposts, but is moving solely In self-defence.

"The occupation of Iceland by Germany would constitute KIOS threat of three dimensions; namely, against Gecenland and the northern portion of the North American con- tinent including the Islands which lie off it: a threat against shipping in the North Atlantic, and a threat against the steady flow of munitions to the British which is part of a broad polley which was clearly ap- proved by Congress."

Forestalling Nazis

'The message told Congress that the dispatch of naval forces to Ice- TURN to Back Page, Column 4

LATEST

Fatal Landslide

In Kowloon

Three people were killed and four seriously Injured when a landslide occurred shortly before half past eight this morning on the hillside overlooking the old Victoria Home in Argyll Street, Matauchung.

Workmen were busily engaged on the hillside when a big boulder tong weighing between 20 and 30 suddenly became loose and lescend- Vital Battle

ed, bringing with it about 500 tons of earth. JERUSALEM, July 7 (Router).- Three men Beirut Raided

were immediately The vital battle for Beirul, involving burled, and although two boles

for been recovered, Belrut was also attacked last night. | possession of Vichy's key port on the have to

the Bombs were seen to fall near the Lebanese conat is focussing all atten- police are still searching among barracks and railway stdings.

lent here. Authoritative military the debris for the third. circles point out that with the capture In addition four other people of Beirut, the Vichy authorities would were badly injured and rushed to ins lose not only their most valuable pert Kowloon Hospital. but also the main bastion of their defence in the west.

Several targets in the neighbour- hood of Damour were also attacked by bombs straddling the bridge and British fighters again lincked Vichy shipping in the harbour

In Libya

He added that any nation, when it teams up us Japan has done with the Axis Powers, is a threat, and they can hardly so so without expecting to shoulder Cie full consequences, gun battery,

He declared that the United States "certainly should not permit the Aund. reet of islands from Kainehalka to Borneo to stand as a military or nuval barrier between the United States

Was of

The area under Vichy control is shrinking dally arid many here are of the opinion that the fall of Belrat also may well have a decisive effcet on Judy the campaign,

Libya the R.A.F. and Asia. In unfriendly hands, nettve. During the night such a barrier woldd block forever 8.1, raida were made on docks und our trade intercourse with China and shipping at Benghazi Bombs fell the Netherlands East Indies."

JAPANESE CAPITAL

north bank of Western Dvina in the Polotok sector, but Soviet troops have firmly held their positions.

the Tlie.communique adds that Germans also made severnt altempts to cross the River Dnieper: in the Bobruisk sector, but were obliged to SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH retire with heavy losses under the withering are of the Soviet troops.

TOKYO, July 7 (Domei)-The in- The communique. claims that dustrint capitalisations projected dur Soviet troops completely annihilated ing the first half of the current bust-

on inoles, among the rallway sidings

and in a motor transport park. A

| number of fires were started.

From all these operations British aircraft returned safely.

Eden's Words Welcome In

a German baltallen in the Mogullov-ness year tetalied Yer 2,764,000,000, Moscow

Podolsk sector.

One Hostile Aircraft Over Britain

showing an increase of Yen 424,000,-

000 over the corresponding period off

the Industrial Bank of last year, Japan revented.

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(Reuter),

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·Further Lato News -

Reds Estimate German

Losses Are Enormous

MOSCOW, July 7 (Reuter) —M. Lozovsky, chief of the

| Russian_Information Bureau,.replying to questions to-day, point-

ed out that the front, was not a straight line but a wide zig-zag, in which mobile forces are operating,

they und destroyed 1,500 German

planes and 2,300 tarka.

Russian Casualties

· He added that whenever any casualties and these were mounting German unit stopped, it was dally as the battle was proving more

Alerce. MOSCOW, July

Immediately counter-attacked

The British estimated, he said, that Newspapers publish prominently the and quoted the example of a in 22 months' the Germans lost, 4,000 specchi which the British Foreign column of tanks halted by lack ptanes

and 2,000 tanks. The The nuthorized capitalisation. of Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, - made new enterprises under Government at Leeds, emphasising the passage in of fuel. This column was im Russlors claim that in eight days, control during the period under re- the speech saying that Britain is not mediately act upon by Russians view dropped by Yen 232,000,000 to any circumstances prepared to throwing petrol and many tanka Yen: 50,000,000 from last year re- negotiate with Hitler at any time on were burned out.

M. Lozoviky anid that he was un- flecting the dimculty in raising fresh any subject and that she will inten-

M. Lozovsky claimed that German able to disclose the Russian casualties funds due to the Government's alfy her war effort until he and all LONDON, July 7 (Reuter)-priority system in the development of that he stands for is utteris des- losses were much greater in the fort- or the number of troops mobilised. cingle enemy aircraft flew inland for key industries and also lower stock troyo.

night of the present campaign than 'It is understood that the heavily in the 22 previous war months. The wounded are brought to Moscow fon. a short distance over northwest Eng-prices. Tand, this afternoon.

The press emphasises also Mr Germans, he said, admitted casualties complicated operations and that the

Russo-German the This, says the Air Ministry, is the Company debentures gained Yen Eden's statement that England will before

war | lighter casualties are going further only hostile activity reported over 532,000,000 and amounted to Yen do her utmost to help the Russians amounting to 300,000 while the inland.

M. Lozoviky said that Russie has strides and possessed a very advanc Commenting on the paucity of ed knowledge. It remained ve general information concerning this country to-day and up to 6 pm. 1.398,000,000 furnishing evidence of or help anyone else who fights Hitler, British estimated them at 200,000.

capital | doing so without reservations

M. Lozoviky added that the three times the number of men there were no reports of any bombs | good management in the

or Russians in 12 days inflicted 700,000 possessed by Germany. seen, he said, how far this know-TURN to Back Page, Column 3 having been dropped.

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He said that he could not speak

of the actual Öghting qualities of the f

SIR HUBERT WILKINS

Russian soldiers as he had not made ledge would be applied with success

n study of that side of the question, Junder conditions of war.

but he could any that in the field of aviation the Soviet had made grent

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