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the pact of non-aggression between the two countries, confirmed by Her In repeated and colemn de- clarations, has furnished the world with freshi and Loverwhelming evidence that no country, whatever its politics, can feel secure na long us Nazism and Hitlerism exist.

One At A Time

Hitler's chief aim is to strike one adversary at a time. That is why we should strike together and simul- taneously and untiringly. Each blow struck now will be len times more effective and will entail infinitely less expenditure and sacrifice than it de- Ifvered Inter.

After paying Tribute to the states- acumen revented

manlike

Churchill's announcement

In Mr

On the

day of the German attack, M. Lit- vinov said that "we no less recognize what the menace of a Hiller victory In the West World would constituto for u."

No Insurance In Peace M. Litvinov said, "No peace that could be minde would be protection against a renewed attack at any time. Without war, Hitler can see no point in living.

"Fields, soaked in blood, towns re- duced to sinoke and heaps of ashes; of hunger and

poverty, the tears mothers, wives and sisters-all these compose the element in which Hitler feels happy and comfortable.

"The Soviet Government was al- most the first to realise the danger to the world of Nazi aggressiveness, to curb and appealing to all nations

This is not organise resistance to it. the moment to RO into the question why these repented appeals of the Sovlet Government did not yield the desired result."

Hitler's Hitch

"To wage this struggle against the common foe to the bitter end is the single ali-embracing task confronting; this country, Hitler Intended first to deal with the western states so as to

be free afterwards to full on the Soviet Union. There was a hitch somewhere.

"Believing that he had secured for himself a de facto truce in the west, he decided to hold a blitzkrieg in the east in order immediately afterwards

WARSAW TRAFFIC Log-driven bicyclo-taxis have replaced motor vehicles on streets of Warsaw, Poland, because of lack of gasolino. Horo are two Nazi airman on leave, looking over ruins Nazi Luftwaffe made of capital city.

Girls Share In Saving Bank In Fire Blitz

A remarkable story of the courage and endurance of an

to fall with all his strength upon Brl-office fire-fighting party of eight men and seven women who

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Fighting With Britain

"We no less. recognise the menace which a Hitler victory in the west would constitute for us. Both the Soviet Union and Great Britain are

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saved a bank building in London in the big fire blitz on the

night of May 10 is related in a report to the Ministry of Home Security.

The party, armed with three. gar-

den hoses fed from storage tanks,

fighting for the integrity and inte- and ave stirrup pumps, saw building Soviets Annihilate

pendence of their states against en- Movement

and the extermination af their people

"Destruction of Hitlerism will mean the elimination of the most shameful phenomenon of our age and the climination of the greatest obstacle to the development of elvi-

sation that ever existed!"

Situation In Syria Satisfactory

FROM PAGE ONE which is advancing up the Euphrates from Deir Ez Zor, has occupied Races, also without opposition.

Racca is half-way between Deir Ez Zor and Aleppo and the importance of its position lies in the fact that the column is able to strike either at Aleppo from the east or at Homs from the northeast, depending on the development of the strategical situa-

tion.

Mobilization

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LONDON, July 8 (Reuler). General Dentz has ordered mobilisation of all Frenchmen be- tween the ages of 10 and 45 in Syria and Lebanon, according to the Paris radio.

Armistice Rejected LONDON, July 8 (Reuter)-Nadio Paris, quoting a message from Beirut to-day, said that the British High Command in the Near East bad made another Armistice proposal to General Dentz which was again rejected.

Roosevelt Asked On Defence

he

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fellow would do. Sometimes, added, one has information and some- times not.

sked if he thought that the "other fellow was likely to make any move towards the Azores or Cape Verde Islands, the President replied that he could not prognosticate.

The President dismissed as an im- proper question an inquiry whether American troops were ir. Greenland. To answer that, he said, might dis- close military information.

The President also indicated that he favoured the extension of the training period for National Guards- men and drafted men beyond one

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alter bullding catch fire, and a ring of flame advancing, upon them from all sides.

German Infantry

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They had the choice of abandon- ing, while there was time, the build- ing in which their office was situated, or of staying on with the risk of their retreat being cut off. They decisive of the war-perhaps the stayed on.

most decisive of the entire Russo- Eventually, the roof of the next-Germen conflict. It was stated that loor bullding burst into flames, and the Soviets have massed all avail- the party began the long night's juble reserves. battle.

Dispatches indicate that the fight- Leader's Story

Ang is continuing with unparalleled The leader of the party tells the bitterness and obstinacy. The heavi- story in these words: left four est German drives are on the front men to look after this job, while the between Lutsk and Kiev and second- rest of us turned to the south to de-ly along the Dnieper diver between fend ourselves on that side. By the Als and Smolensk. time I had got to the other side, the girls had the sparks on the roof under control.

Finns Claim Advance

HELSINKI, July 8 (UP)-It is announced that Finnish

"I put two porters to drenching the officially end of the wall of the building on troops have advanced ten kilometers of Lahdenposto, near the east side, and they had not been northwest long at this work when the entire Sortovala. At other unnamed points. roof caught fire and smoke and an advance is reported to have been

lu made by "severil kilometers." flames started to flow waves, After a while, we had to start retreating from the fire. Then purt of a neighbouring building fell In on our side of the wall.

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LONDON, July 8 (Reuter)-A TO-MORROW : “4 GIRL, IN 313

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Soviet communique brondcast over Girl Falls Into Fire

Moscow Radlo announces that on the "In her eagerness to get her jet

front, German Bessarabian Bearing better on the fire, Marjorie, Rumanian troops were driven back one of the girls, ran forward within disorder beyond the River Pruth nozzle and fell oft the roof into as the result of Soviet counter- the Are We immediately turned sttacks.

our hoses on to her. I realized that The enemy fled so hurriedly that the men inside the next building he threw down his arms and equip might not have heard her scream.ment,

It was useless to shout, but, in n The communique nlso speaks of matter of seconds, porters were successful Soviet air activity. there and they carried her inside to

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mainder of the roof of the next building fell in, and partion of it fell which would be far-reaching in the on our side. "Daphne,

diplomatic field. another of the girls, went

Many German leaders consider of the forward too far with one nozzles, and she fell off the roof into that the Russian campaign will be the fire. She, too, was carried out ended with the occupation of Mos- and the police rendered first-aid, cow, Leningrad and Kiev, in order to avoid. German forces being involved The rest of us carried on.""

Eventually, with assistance from in a dind of Chinese war. neighbouring are watchers, the fire was fought off.

Looking round, the leader of the

party found a telephonist in the oflee, sill at her post.

Crinos With Stalin LONDON, July 8 (Reuter). Moscow Radio announced to-day that Sir Stafford Crippe, the British Ambassador, was received by M. Stalin and had over an hour's con- versation.

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The France German peace would be accompanied by new Hitler offers of a general peace in which Vichy diplomats would play a part and which relled on to produce a deep cleavage in American opinion.

French public opinion remains. hostile to the policy of reversing al- lances, but Vichy has decided on re- course, if necessary, to dictatorship methods, concludes the despatch.

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