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No. 16505

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1941.

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SOVIETS ANNIHILATE Tactical New Situation In

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Special to the "Telegraph"

MOSCOW, July 8 (UP).—The Russians con- tinue to claim successes in their defence of the Stalin Line against the invading Nazi.forces, and declare that on all the principal fronts they have repelled attacks and set up hard hitting and effective counter offensives which have taken hoavy toll of German infantry and mechanised units. Intense fighting continues unabated.

The latest Soviet communique on operations reads as follows:

Bigger

U. S. Army & Navy

President To Seek Increased Funds

"The fighting which developed in the course of the day on July 7 in the Ostrov, Polotsk, Lepel, Novograd Volynsk Bobrusk.

and Mogiler-Podolsk (Ukraine) areas continued during the night of July 8 with unrelenting force.

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the Ostroy area pur troops by stout resistance to the enemy were holding buck his advance.

"In the Palotsk nrea, the in- tense struggle with the enemy is continuing as well as in the Borkovichi area,

"In the Lepel area continues to

resist

the the

enemy counter-

Annihilated

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, July 8 (UP). attacks which our troops launched Aphting con- -According to informed Con- in this sector. The gressional circles,

President thues. Roosevelt's aides are preparing appropriation requests to cover the expansion of the army and for the purpose of constructing warships. These appropriations will total between five and six billion dollars.

It is understood that the funds will be needed as follows: four billion dollars with which to expand the army; one billion dollars with which to construct new warships for the purpose of bolstering the two-occan navy plan.

"In the Bobrusk area, our forces annihilated up to 35 enemy heavy tanks and two infantry battalions. All enemy attempts to force a crossing of the Dnieper river in this area were repulsed with great losses for the enemy. Prisoners were taken.

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"In the Novograd-Volynsk area, jun Intense fighting with tanics thect motorised enemy units is continuing, troops, by South of this area our determined-counter-attacks into the enemy's flank and rear, annihilated two infantry regiments.

Mogilovi-Podolsk "In the (Ukraine) our troops are carrying However, these constructions will on stubborn fighting with the enemy who attempts to break through to not include capital ships, but

will the Dniester river. Our troops are comprise destroyers and light annihilating the enemy in this area

unit. unit by unit

During the course of the day of July 7, our air force destroyed in atr combats and at aerodromes 50 enemy We lost five planes aeroplanes. during the course of the day."

crulsera,

In addition the funds tre needed to increase aid to Britain beyond the seven billion dollars previously ap- proved.

Nazis Killed In Gun Fight

Decisive Baltic

BERLIN, July 8 (UP).-German quarters describe the gigantic battle

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TOKYO, July 8 (UP)—Well qualified observers regard the dispatching of United States Haval forces to Iceland DA readinces on the part of the United States to meet German attacks and therefore, there are now greater possibilities of war between Germany And the United States. They asserted that ile next action by the United States might be the occu- pation of the Azores and Dakar.

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WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reu-

on the Stalin Line as one of the most (ter)—A dispatch from London

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Soldiers In Bren

Carrier Accident

to the "New York Times" to the effect that the British were Panama Incident

angry with Senator Burton K. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Wheeler for giving away a PANAMA, July 8 (UP),

military secret involving British Press reports reveal that twelve One man was seriously injured and troops last week when Senator German colonists were killed and two others sustained superficial in-Wheeler hinted at. American juries and shock when a' Bren gun several taken prisoner in a gun carrier, manned by Corporal Smith, occupation of Iceland was the battle with the Panamanian Private Mackay and Private Higgins subject of questions at a press police last night in the village of of the Royal Scots, skidded and roll-conference to-day. Cotito, 20 miles from the Costa ed down an embankment on the Laichikok Peak Road near Challe Rica frontier.

yesterday,

The Panama Government had re- Corporal Smith injured his legs quested tho Germans' papers for and body and is said to be ing "The Germans might have taken examintalon and these were refused. serious condition. Privates Higgins

Mr Stephen Early, the President's Secretary, labelled as a fair state- ment this dispatch which added: advantage of that confusion and

States Marines might have been in- volved in the resultant sloughter."

It is asserted that the Germans oper- and Mackay escaped with ttle British troops as well as United

ed are first.

worse than a nasty shalting.

Litvinov Defies Nazi

Might in

in Broadcast

LONDON, July 8 (Reuter).—M. Litvinov, former Soviet Foreign Commissar, broadcasting In English from Moscow to- night, said that over a dozen States had lost their independence and had seen their landa laid waste as if swarms of locusts had passed over them, and the populations reduced to slaves,

'U.S. Man-Power

Mr Early discussed the question of reports that General, Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East, had said that United States manpower was needed to win the war.

Mr Early said that the last thing he had heard from London was that Mr Churchill said that the United States should give Britain the tools and she would finish the job.

"I take it that thla General is subordinate to the Prime Ministor." he said.

that

Who can doubt but that the fallen with special force to the lot of same fato awaits in the future the Soviet Union,

Referring to Hitler's attempts to those few countries who con- conquer Great Britain, M. Litvinov Senator Wheeler apparently had

When a reporter remarked tinue to preserve their indepen-anid that the failure showed that good information on the occupation dent existence under delusions Hiller "has not yet the training of a of Iceland, Mr Early put the matter

Channel swimmer. of neutrality and pacts of non-elded to start the blitzkrieg in the winner in a horse-race width, ho Though he de-in the category of picking a 20-1 aggression and friendship with east, it is already clear that Hitler said, was undoubtedly what Senator Hitler...

was out of his reckoning na to the Wheeler did. It has fallen to Great Britain with ilghtning character

Blit

Mr Early added that he had not the active support of the United blow." States to bear the brunt of the German's treacherous attack on the heard of a report from London that an air line would be established struggle with Hiller and his vast war penceful Soviet Union in the face of between Iceland and the United machine. Now this struggle has TURN to Back Pago, Column 3 States.

of the

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Split U.S. Unity

LONDON, July 8 (Reuter).-An independent French news agency states that despatches from the French frontier show that Vichy is determined to carry through peace negotiations with Berlin and is seeking the support of neutrals, particularly Switzerland and Spain, for this purpose. Vichy has definitely decided on a policy of lasting rapprochement with Germany.

Roosevelt

Questioned On Defencé

WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reu- ter).--President Roosevelt to- day removed in effect any hemispherle boundary on United States defence operations.

At his press conference, the Presi- dent stated that there were points in one ocean or another which were not Important to defence but then there were others just outside the hemis pherie boundaries which might be terribly important.

Vichy is resolved to use all means to reconcile French public opinion to this reversal of alliance, the des patches continue, and despite pro- tests from General Huntziger, the Vichy War Minister, the cession uf Alsace Lorraine is to be accepted as definite.

are

The stakes involved In Admiral Darian's present

negotiations active collaboration in Africa and permanent German occupation of certain Channel and North Sea ports against possible compensations In Belglum.

Strengthen Isolationists

There are reasons to believe that Vichy is seeking support in America, and that the Vichy propaganda wili gradually replace German and Hai- un propaganda which is now being suppressed there.

Vichy considers that a Franco- German pence would considerably It was impossible, he asserted, to reinforce the Isolationist section of draw an imaginary line and put a America and it would be a serious

blow buoy on it.

lo President Roosevell'n polley.

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During the discusslor centring around the dispatch of United States are already working in full accord, In this sense, Vichy and Berlin forces to Iceland, President Roosevelt TURN to Back Pago, Column 5 answered Indirectly

question

whether he had daßinite Information

that German or stifter forces were

about to move into Iceland.

The President said that he thought U-Boat Sunk

that he could not answer categorically but that in wartime one puli oneself in the place of the other fellow and attempts to determine what the other TURN to Back Pago, Column 3

U-BOAT SUNK

Off Gib.

MADRID, July 8 (Reuter)-- A German submarine was sunk off Gibraltar this morning by the Fleet Air Arm, according to Spaniali reports from La- Linea.

SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH“ LA LINEA, July 9 (UP).—Very

Two members of the crow were reliable Information from Gibraltar rescued and taken to Gibraltar. states that British bombers sank a It la belleved that the submarine German submarine off the flock at was lying in wait for à largo British dawn to-day, Two German sailors convoy of 27 vessels which passed were taken prisoner...

through the Straits this morning.

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SPLENDID U. S. AID

Captain Lyttleton's Gratification

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

CAIRO, July B (UP)- Captain Lyttleton, Minister of State, to-day told the "United Press" that the "most significant feature of the war was the way in which shipping is arriving in the Red Sen with splendid American war supplies."

He asserted that one of his joba is to "see that American war material, which is of the finest quality, is not mishandled owing to its being differ- ent in nature from the British.

"Amèrican aid is reaching us in impressive qualities and the man in]

Britain the street in

feels that! America is doing all possible at the present juncture." he added,

£10,000

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JERUSALEM, July 8 (Reu- ter).The position is "very, {satisfactory," according to a military spokesman at General Sir Henry Maltland Wilson's headquarters regarding the pro- gress of the battle at Damour,

The Imperial forces are now astride the River Dakoun, about n mile north of Damour River.

On a short front extending from

the village of Darays to the village of Dakoun five miles round, the coast,

the Imperial forces are now slowly forcing their way round east of Damar in on evident attempt to ancircle the Vichy stronghold.

Fierce fighting is still progressing and attack Is followed by counter- attack in ceaseless succession.

Allied columns from Damoscus threatening Beirut from the east made some progress despite the con- tinued shelling of the road by Vichy, artillery on the Mazar Idge, which dominates it.

Column From West

Huma is now increasingly threaten.. ed by the column advancing west- wards from Pulmyra which, uíter re-. gently occupying the pipe-line post, has now cecupied Furqlus, only 25 miles from this vital road and rail Junction.

No Vichy resistance was encounter-

it is now confirmed that a column consisting largely of Indian troops, iTURN to Back Page, Column 3

Man Dies On

Blake Pier

Early Morning Incident

A Chinese seaman, employed by, the Moonraker Motor, Boat Company, collapsed, and died on Blake Plen about 2.15 this morning.

The dead man was Wong Wah, 20, who, according to a a police report, was ached by a European who de- approached

sired to hire a boat.

Ân altercation la reported to have followed during which Wong collaps ed and died.

Police are continuing investigations, and indications are that Wong died from natural causes.

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