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五拜 號一十月七英涉香

FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1941.

日七十月六

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Russians LULL ON NAZI-SOVIET Raid Damage To Foreign Want New

War Front FIGHTING FRONTS, BUT

Created

Request To Britain)

OY FREDERICK KUR

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, July 19 (UP). is reliably reported that news from Moscow states that the aid Russia desires from Britain, above all, is the creation of a

second active front against Ger-

minny.

It seems likely that Stalin has! conveyed this news to Britain in no ambiguous terms, possibly |

RED AIR FORCE ACTIVE

Special to the “Telegraph”

MOSCOW, JULY 11 (UP).—THE SOVIET-GERMAN FRONT. APPEARED TO BE AT A STANDSTILL AS THE NIGHT COMMUNI QUE REPORTED THAT THERE WAS NOTHING OF CONSEQUENCE. THERE WAS DESULTORY FIGHTING ALONG THE OSTROV SECTOR, THE ESTONIA - RUSSIAN BORDER, THE NOVOGRAD. VOLYNSK SECTOR AND IN SOUTHERN UKRAINE.

during his conversations with BEIRUT

the British Ambassador, Sir Stafford Cripps last Tuesday and through other channels.

It is known that the Russians want

OCCUPIED,

technical and economia assistance, REPORT

even weapons and tallions, but it appears that the Soviets now consl- der the establishment of a new front, other than to the air, as the crucial

Vichy Ships Got To

(est of the British determination an Alexandretta

sincerity in alding Russia.

The Red air fleet appeared to have the initiative and battered the German troops who were trying to cross the West Dvina river and bombed German airports.

There were no developments in the Finnish or Bessarabian sectors.

COLOSSAL CLAIMS

Luftwaffe Diverted LONDON, July 10 (Reuter). BY NAZIS

According to authoritative Russian-Beirut has been occupied by estimates, Hitler has 110W

The

Aerial Superiority

newspaper

"Izvestia", [summing up the preliminary results of the Russo-Gernmi air war, claims quantitive and qualitative Russian superiority. The paper declared that crack German pilots have already perished over England and the Soviet Union

conera Australian troops, according to Prisoners & Material and the Luftwolle was now used w

rated . per cent of the total the Paris Radio. Lauftwaffe gainst Russia. German pilots captured by the Russians include many who are fresh from Africa, Stelly Greece, Crele, France, Belghum and elsewhere.

Vichy Ships Surrender

youths who invariably avoid combat. In describing the work of ited dive- LONDON, July 10 Router) bombers, the paper refers to the "With the conclusion of the double destruction of one advance colum SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" battle of Bialystok and Minsk, the of hundreds of German tanks, despite CAIRO, July 10 (UP)--Ac-greatest amount of war material inferee upposition by German fighter While it is admitted that the Ger- cording to Radio Jerusalem, the arid history has been

captured," mans have broken through many

according to a special Germin High outlying Russian defence positions, it Allied forces are preparing to Command communique issued Lo- Is afirmed in the best authoritative occupy Beirut, sinee General night.

that they have nowhere Dentz has failed to reply to the "A folaf of 323,818 prisoners, in- pierced the main Stalin Linc.

several Kenerals and although the fighting, especially cast ultimatum to evacuate the city, studing

divisional commanders, fell into our of Minsk, is now going on along the lines of the perinieter.

The Anatolia News Agency hands. Altogether 3,332 tanks and reports that the Vichy fleet of 16 guns as well as an innumerable vessels, based at Beirut, hasity of ether war materials were surrendered to Turkey and the

circles

Flict

captured.

CHIO.

It would be wrong to assume that the Russians who have remained in German pockets in several districts

Thus the total number of prison- intentionally, emulating General Wavell's strategy at Tobruk, warships are now anchored at ers has been increased to over 400,- They were tornered, but Instead of Alexandretta.

The

material retreating or surrendering, they stay-

captured or destroyed includes 7,615 tanks and ed and fought the Germans from the

4.432 guns. rear. repeatedly cutting them off from the main army

"The Soviet air force has up to

It is reliably stated that even the German meelianised units have so far failed to break through on the Ukrainian front.

Maintaining Contact Wherever the Soviet troops have been caught in pockets, the main Russian army is maintalabig contact with them by planes, radio and tanks, possibly because no sold front exists and the Russian tanks are sometimes

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14 Enemy Fighters Destroyed

LONDON, July 10 (Reuter). -Fourteen German fighter planes were destroyed during to-- day's offensive operations over

announced the British Ministry.

Leaflets Dropped

VICHY, July 10 (Reuter).-British | planes dropped leaflets to-day on now lost 6,233 planes." Beirut demanding that it be declared: an open town and that it be occupied; by British forces.

The demand was in the form of un ultimatum, according to the official Vichy news agency. It had "nothing to do with the negotiations for the cessation of hostilities, for which the United States Consulate is acting us an intermediary.

Admirat Darian, who has returned to Vichy from the occupied zone, con- ferred with Marshal Petain this morning about Syria and his talks In Parls.

He also conferred about Syria with tie Vichy Minister General Charles Huntziger.

No Reply

Ships Sunk Off Sweden

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” STOCKHOLM, July 10 (UP).-

The semi-official news agency reports that three or four ships of "foreign nationality" sanic after they had struck mines off the east coast of the Swedish Island of Ocland.

There were heavy detonations

which were nudible in the entire

south Oeland area yesterday after- Defence noon. of

Sixteen persons have been sent to hospital

JERUSALEM, July 10 (Reuter), There was still no reply this evening TURN to Back Page, Column 4

BOMBER FUND DONATIONS

In sending, a donation of $1,000 to

LATEST

Devastating

enemy occupied territory, the Bomber Fund, Mr H. S. Hills R.A.F. Raids

Airhopes that it may lend inspiration to

In

Hreat many others to do likewise,

is greater or smaller erpacity, in On Shipping

One British fighter, previously re-order that we may be assured of ported missing, han returned and the empturing the "ble fish" so gener- pilot of another has been rescued. ously offered by Sir Victor Sassoon,

The British losses, therefore, are

A donation of $50 was also received rine fighters, the pilot of one being this morning from the China-New safe.

Gulsen Mercantile Company.

Blitz Raids on Enemy Shipping and Aachen

Special to the "Telegraph”

were

LONDON, July 10 (UP).—The Air Ministry announced to-day that early this afternoon Blenheim bombers, destroyed 20,000 tona of shipping at Cherbourg and Le Havre, where the quays, dockside buildings and gun emplacements

also bombed."

It lies in a district rich in mineral Heavy Attack on Aachen wealth, has many, industries, and Is LONDON, July 10 (Reuter). an important railway town. -Aircraft of the Bomber Com- before but not very often and certain- It has been attacked by the RAF. mand did great damage at ly never en such a scale as last right. Aachen last night, states the As the attackers, undeterred by Air Ministry.

This town on the frontler between Belgium and Germany, better known as Aix la Chapelle, was cleared for modern industry and development by a huge conflagration in 1805 which destroyed 10 per cent, of its buildings,

Incessant artillery or patrolling Bulters, passed through the defences, the town was brightly lit arst by the moon and then by drifting flares, and last by great fires.

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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” LONDON, July

A merchant vessel of 0,000 tons

plants and anti-aircraft fire.

It is also claimed that the Red air Лесі

has bombers faster than any German Sighters.

A Berlin report issued by the efcial news agency says that a small German

troop formation met strong Soviet tank group during the advance on the Stalin Line, and it is claimed that the Nazis destroyed 123 tanks.

The German Propaganda Company reports indicate that very bitter fight. ing is going on with the Russians apparently throwing in thely elite reserves.

German Claims BERLIN, July 10 (UP)-Curing the course of Wednesday, 110 Soviet TURN to Back Pago, Column 5

Churchill

Listens To

Criticism

Luftwaffe

Is As Good

As Beaten

"The Luftwaffe is as good as LONDON, July 10 (Reuter),

beaten," says a prominent avia- tion journal, "The Acroplane,” adding that evidence of the on- willingness of German airmen to engage the British when finding themselves outnumbered been given by a Wing Comman- der following a recent German claim that on a recent daylight raid 25 bombers were escorted by 200 fighters.

hus

Commenting on these rald The Aeroplane" says that they are a mat- ter of deep anxiety to Germany and are rapidly assuming the quality of a menace. They aim at the creation of the technique of ensuring to the R.A.F. local air supremacy on

any special occasion,

by

this

No Division On War

method the bombers can be protected while carrying out Productions. Debate their attack, similar immunity might| be secured for other forms of! LONDON, July 10 (Reuter). destructive military undertakings. In the continued debate on are harder to destroy by bombs than Some military and naval objectives production in the House of by shells, torpedoes or a well-placed Commons to-day, Lieut-Col J. explosive charge. The R.A.F. scems. | Moore-Brabazon, Minister for to be laying a set of excellent founda

Aircraft Production, refused to tions." accept the allegation that there

Property in Chungking

These two pictures Illustrate the extent of the damage caused to British Embassy property in Chungking when it was hit by humbs in a recent Japanese raid. Top picture shows the remains of the substantial brick residence of Sir Arthur Blackburn, Counsellor and First Secretary of the British Embassy. Sir Arthur was seriously injured. Be- low is the rear of the main Erabassy building near which a bomb exploded.

Believes U.S.-Nazi War

Likely Within Few Weeks

Special to the "Telegraph”.

WASHINGTON, July 9 (UP).-Representative Frank C. Osmers, jr., told the House of Representatives to-day that he would not be surprised if the American occupation of Icelandt resulted in an armed conflict between the United States and

were not enough planes in the U. S. Base In Germany "within the next few weeks."

Middle East,

The Minister painted a picture of Lord Beaverbrook's dynamic energy

when accelerating plane production.

Ireland

"I once went to interview him," said Senator Taft's Revelation

Col Moore-Brabazon, "and found him interviewing four people at once

Self-Delivery

He said that he understood President Roosevelt's order to keep the seas open between the United States and Iceland means that the Navy will shoot German

foreign

Reds Expose Nazi Trick On Tokyo

011

*

Air Ministry, giving a revised list of in one hand talking to America und ter).-"I heard weeks ago

10 (UP)--The quite coherently. He had a telephone

WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reu-warships if they interfere.

оп Representative Clare Hoffman 10- Anglo-German air losses today, de-at the same time was ordering his clares that 13 Messerschmitts were hair-dresser to come round and cut United States was constructing dum on the despatching of American Įday proposed a resolution in the reliable authorliy that the

House asking for a national referen- destroyed, while nine British fighters his hair in his office."" are missing, with one pilot safe.

a naval and air base for Britain (expeditionary forces to received a direct hit astern, B. tanker

in Northern Ireland," Senator shores.

LONDON, July 10 (Reuter)~~~~A ot about 2,000 tona

He hoped that ultimately every Taft told the Senate to-day, was struck

Wants War Immediately nasty surprise for the Japanese" was amidships, a vessel of about 3,000 single machine from the United adding that since he had made tons was set on fire, and another States would deliver itself by air.

NEW YORK, July 10 (Reuter)-A the Moscow Radio announcer's com Col Moore-Brabazon declared that the first draft of his speech to New York Post" editorial. calls onpaganda film meant to lilustrate the

ment

Germany's latest pro- vessel of about 7,000 tons received two direct hits.

it was easy to raid London from the Senate lo-day, Mr Wended the United States to declare war im-operations against the Red Army. France. It was more difficult to Willkle had, "after calling upon the mediately against Germany. A ship of about 1,300 tons moored old Berlin from London, but it would President, announced his opinion at "The United States In fact is The film purports to depict the alongalde a wharf was hit by Incon- diaries and probably by high ca- not be many months before raids the Unlied States should establish the war already were in "atrocitics" of the Soviet air forco plosives.

those on London would be child's

ard Scotland."

the path of a war-maker bent oned out, "The picture could" ` Im- Mr Taft added that "the occupation world conquest, to when our very med lately be recognised by anyone tanker of 7,000 tons resulting in ex- we would be able to make on Berlin. plosions, and clouds of black smoke. division being challenged.

The debate concluded without a of Ireland would relieve, perhaps, existence in freedom is a taunt.

halt a a million British troops for ser When a merchant vessel was hit de-

"Our fortunes as a nation depend, who knows the region as being the vice elsewhere, and put half a mililon and we see now they depended from pictures taken during the bombing bris and smoke shot into the air:

The attackers also set fire to ware-

American boys Into the British Isles. the start, on the outcome of this of Kansu by the Japanese Fleet Air

base in Ireland would be much war. houses and bombed gun emplace-

Mr Winston Churchill listened to more effective in protecting shipping "We have no cholec to-day Do- "Details of the landscape and of ments,

paris of the debate, which combined than a base in Iceland.

Itween war and proce. We cannot the operations carried out leave no many detailed criticisms with un-

"Every argument that has been choose. Immunity for ourselves from doubt as to the origin of the film." animous expressions of belief that used for the occupation of Iceland the common desolation. Our aller- production would be fully organised, applies to Ireland, England and native is delaying; nothing more.

Members assumed that Mr Chur-

Jur* | Portugal.” [chill would noto the chief

trends of criticism and that further action

Ilke

ngainst "defenceless populations"

but

At Cherbourg the raiders hit a Play compared with the raids that litary bases in Northern Ireland war because we stand. fatefully in the moscow Radio announcer point-

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Further Late Naws

Premier Attends

A base

Act of War

Arm.

"This is our war. We must fight. Relations Severed

There is no honesty in asking the British to give their lives while we

CHUNGKING, July 10 (UP),—IL will follow. It was in that belief Senator Taft contended that the only supply the fools."

is officially announced that China that the House was allowed to be landing of American forces in Iceland

America's entry into the war woula has revered diplomatic relations with, ndjourned without challenging the was, an act "equivalent to aggressive "clreis out as a tidal wave to the Rumonia due to the latter's recogni estimates on which the debate had war and was one which the Preal ends of the earth," anys the "Now tion of the Nanking regime. The taken place.

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Minister was recalled on Tuesday.