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The SECOND EDITION

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1001 No. 10340

TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1941. 二拜禮 號九十月八英港香

STRATEGICAL BUT NOT DECISIVE

GAINS BY

NAZIS IN THE UKRAINE

(By "Reuter's" Military Commentator)

LONDON, Aug. 18.-The situation in Russia has changed slightly to the advantage of the Gormans and the occupation of Nikolaiev on the estuary of the River Bug can be claimed as a success. Nevertheless, it is only a local one. They have gained nothing decisive.

LATEST SOVIET REPORTS

'SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH**

MOSCOW, Aug. 18 (UP)

The battle on the entire Eastern

Without complete knowledge of the facts it is not possible to say how it was that the Germans could bring superior forces to bear on the southern end of Marshal Budenny's line, for we have had sufficient evidence now to feel sure that without superior numbers on this local hattlefield, the Germans could not have driven hack the Russians as far as they have.

It looks, however, as if the Nazis on the left of Marshal Runstedt's army in the direction of Kiev have Front continues unabated, ac- been firmly held and that their attacks were repulsed. cording to the latest reports The Germans seem to be equally held on the roads to Issued here, with the weight of |

the German thrust against Moscow and Leningrad.

blowing-up of

fresh,

be

southwestern Ukraine towards The Russians strategy is probably governed by such ques the Dnieper River.

The

the tions as: Are their divisions in reserve, which are still Nikolaev winrves Indicated that | fully equipped, or must they wait a while before they can Stalin's policy of destruction is being carried out on a large scale among the industrial as well as agricultural resources and plants.

provided with the full equipment necessary for battle? And how long will it take to concentrate them at certain points and bring them forward to launch the great counter-attacks which musi be delivered and be successful before the Germans can be driven from the sail of Russia?

Delaying Action

It is stated that the Black Sea Fleet is continuing active operations and yesterday sank two, large Rumanian transports, presumably intended to land

troops at Odessa and Nikolaev.

It is these questions which Red army puckets alded by should decide how long the queritias continued to batter the Russian Command is prepared to Dispatches from the front reported fight delaying actions and battles that the Red division which

The

Gernin rear.

wns of exhaustion before it consider-

split by the Germans a fortnight agoted that the moment has arrived attacked at both ends and broke through the German encirclement for assumption of the offensive. and have rejoined the main forces

Ideas of strategy in many countries, after inflicting-heavy-casualties-on with the exception of Germany, have. the Germana,

cult of the been vitiated by the defensive und Intensified War EffortTM

of temerity often Meanwhile, the Soviet rear is inconcealed under that more Imposing tensifying its war effort with an in-word prudence. Far too much stress creasing output of armainents and has been laid on the value of forti provisions. Yesterday, several million fled lines of defence and of natural youths contributed their rest day to obstacles, while the real defence of a country is never sufficiently re- That real defence lies in men and

on defenses. Over one million cognised or stressed. people in the Moscow district gather-i

ed scrop metal, loaded trains and re- their leaders. "it is men and not paired rolling stock on the railways wails who are the defences of a city,"

Mr Ivan Papanin the noted Aretle sold the Romans of old. explorer has resumed his locksmith trade which he abandoned 20 years TURN to Back Page, Column 5

Aussies' Big

Overseas

Gaining Time

Marshal Budenny's strategy and Indeed that of the whole Russian Army is probably dictated not by the defence of obstacles, natural or ar tiflein when full use may be made of such, but the necessity of gaining time and the importance of wearing. out the Germans.

If such are the principles under-

the

Russian Cominand,

NAZI INVASION FORESTALLED

Effect of Red Resistance

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (Router). -- Russia has a real chance of holding out indefinitely against the Nazis. That is one of the impressions Congressional leaders are reported to have gained from their conference with President Roosevelt.

HITLER ILL, SAYS REPORT

Other impressions were: (1) Russian resistance has forestalled any German attempt to invade Britain this year.

(2) The British believe that any German attempt to invade Britain will be delayed at least until spring.

(3) The chances appear even

Alleged Reaction To that Japan would take new

Nazis Setback

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

steps of aggression.

President Roosevelt

appeared cheerful and confident as the result of his talks with Mir Churchill.

One Congressman said LONDON, Aug. 18 (UP)-British were convinced that in order to defeat Germany, Britain eventual-

that the

Air Forceing the strategical conceptions of The "Exchange Telegraph," in ty must invnde the Continent. It

MELBOURNE, Aug. 18 (Reuter). TURN to Back Page, Column 4 a news dispatch from Switzer was indicated, however, that no such

land to-day, purported to cite step was contemplated at present. indications that Hitler's "men- tal condition", had deteriorated since the first German setback; on the Russian front.

-Twenty-three Australian Air Force squadrons will be serving abroad by the middle of next year, announced Minister for Air Mr K. McEwen 10-

mostly

day.

The personnel, will be supplied through the Empire Train- ing Scheme and all will be flying the most modern machines, he said.

Exemptions From

Interest Tax - ...

The dispatch, which lacked

It has been revealed by the Com-confirmation from other sources, missioner of War Taxation, that the declared that Professor Ferdin- Many personnel for additional following companies have been and Sauerberuch, a specialist In squadrons are already serving with

granted exempilon by the Governor- the R.A.F. They will be grouped in-Council from interest Tax on in- nervous diseases had conferred with incoming trainees.

terest payable on consumers' deposits with two Swiss psychologists

regarding Hitler's health.

The Minister for Aircraft Produc-held by them: tion, Mr J. W. Leckie, after a record

Co., Lid, return fight in an Australian-built Hongkong Electric, Beaufort, said that the performance Hongkong Telephone Co., Ltd., China demonstrated the striking power of Light and Power, Co., Edd., and the

Hongkong and China Gas, Co., Ltd.

Australia's first-line defence,

Bevin Wants Post-War Raw Materials Pool

Special to the "Telegraph”

LLANDUDNO, Wales, Aug. 18 (UP).—The Minister of Labour and National Service, Mr Ernest Bevin, commenting upon Mr Churchill's declaration to-day, said that no pence could be bullt until Prussianisni is disarmed,

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GERMANS

The Dnieperstroy Dam is now threatened by the, Nazia *In their Intest southern Ukraine drive The huge Dam, is built close to the Dnieper River near Dnepropetrovsk, and is about 200 miles northenst of Nikolaev, important Ukraine seaport which has fallen to the advancing Ger- man forces.

Explode, Blaze

In N.Y. Harbour:

2 Die; 55 Injured

Quo Endorses Expectancy

8 Points

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

CHUNGKING, Aug. 17 (UP). -Dr Quo Tal-chi, the Chinese Farelen Minister, to-day issued a statement, saying that the Chinese Government and people whole-heartedly

welcome and endorse the Roosevelt-Churchill statement, which is essentially in harmony with Dr Sun Yat-sen's advocacy for a "great common- wealth of nations,”

Dr Quo said that he Belleved post-war reconstruction would be more difficult than winning the war, requiring the supreme effurts of all peoples, in which the Chinese people are prepared to fully contribute,

The Chinese Foreign Minister said that he believed that the shortest way to suppresa aggress- fon was to defeat Japan first by encirclement.

Latest Goering Reports

In Singapore

(OY BELBY WALKER, REUTER'S CHIEF CORRESPONDENT IN THE FAR EAST)

NEW YORK, Aug, 18 (Reu- {ter).-Numerous explosions that shook lower Manhattan to-day, accompanied a raging fire which broke out at the East River wharf where British ships ard loaded with supplies for Britain and Egypt..

Observers said that the cx- plosions apparently occurred in.

number of heavily Inden barges.

The Coast Guard and fire boats raced to the rescue.

Two people were killed and 55 people were Injured-some

feared

fatally-in the fire. Clouds of dense smoke swept the Wall Street district na lunch-hour crowds poured out from offices.

1-

Flames Spread

The tre which began with a series of explosions, sending flames 125 feet into the air, engulfed the Cuba Mail Line pier at Brooklyn, set on American freighter and several laden borges aflame and threatened to karend to a nearby pler used by British ships.

The American freighter Panuco, minerals with quicksilver, loden. and hemp, caught fire, was cut loose and drifted off blazing from stem to etern. A flaming barge was cast ndrift and floated Inzily down the river while fre-boats threw tonk of water on it.

Five fire alarms were received at the Brooklyn Fire Station, from which firemen sped to keep the blaze trom spreading to the pier where almost dally British ships load supplies.

WEEK-END BLITZ ON SYRACUSE

Mole And Sidings

SINGAPORE,- Aug. 18-A A Blaze Of Flames

feeling of tense expectancy con- tinues to pervade Singapore in

view

of

CAIRO, Aug. 18 (Reuter).— the multi-lingual Considerable damage is believed Japanese campaign of vilifying to have been done to shipping the alleged Anglo-American At Syracuse by the Fleet Air encirclement of Japan.

Arm raid on Saturday night The Japanese are also playing up when fires lit up the whole the reinforcement of the

Malaya harbour, according to an R.A.F.

garrisons as a direct threat to Thal-communique.

land-apparently with the idea of

opening the Thailand oyster

for

the

Protection."

The communique states: "Air-

easiest way by persuading Thailand craft of the Fleet Air Arm car 10

appeal to Japan

ried out a successful attack

storics told by British evacuees

Tension is heightened by the on the harbour of Syracuse dur

in rapidly

reaching Singapore which indicate ing the night of August. 16-17. Lint

becom Bombs were dropped from a Indo-China ing an armed camp with heavy.con- low altitude on the central molo centrations of forces on the Burma and railway sidings, starting and Thai frontiers.

several fires which finally be came one intense. blaze with

Anciher ominous portent Wis the broadcast announcement by an unnamed Japanese naval spokes-flames rising to 300 feet. man describing the situation as the! "calm before the storm."

Malaya Ready

The inan in the street, however,

Said To Have Lost Both heartened by the visible evidence

Legs In R.A.F. Raid

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

of Maluya's preparedness and deler- mination to defend this outpost of

"A number of violent explosionsf 'accompnaled the fire which 1lt up the whole of the harbour area. Con-

done to shipping. siderable damage must have been

Incendiaries

the Empire. This is exemplified by "The same formation dropped a the presence, everywhere, of men of | number of incendiary bombs on bar- the fighting services from all over racks at Cap Passaro. These caused CAIRO, Aug. 18 (UP)-Ac- the Empire, including stalwart sun- heavy detonation followed by e cording to wholly unconfirmed burned Australians, turbaned Indians fire which was still visible from reports emanating from British TURN to Back Pago, Column 4 TURN to Back Page, Column 4 soldiers who reached Franco

after escaping from German

The dispatch claimed that Hitler had been forced to leave the Russian front and was now at Berchtesgaden where doctors had decided he must

prison. camps, Field Marshal not be told any "bad news" of note.

According to Berlin dispatches, News has been received In the Hermann Goering lost both legs Hitler still had his headquartere at Colony

Pilot Omeer Lesile during an R.A.F. raid on an the Eastern Front to-day.

Richard Evans, RAF, former pupil enemy aerodrome.

to

that

NO COMPULSORY England after returning from or in reports concerning the alleged vicis-

CENSORSHIP IN AMERICA

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (Reuter), When asked it Mr Roosevelt had approved the recommendation of the Navy and Army chiefs for compul- sory censorship of all communica~ tions in and out of America, the Pro- sident's secretary Mr Stephen Early, raw declared that Mr Roosevelt was un- aware of the existence of any such scramble for speculation. but that bill. they must be organised, adding that Mr Early added that the President .. Me Davin declared that lie belleved if he had his way, he would intro- could not imagine the source of such that the British Commonwealth, duco an International pool for rawa report except that it was the Wii- China, the United States and Russia, materials, with a world pool for helmstrasse or someone in America would play a role which nobody. freights, and make a charge for their who thought more of Germany than until now, had over conceived in the uso with international control...

-ho did of the United States..

He asserted that Britain could; future organisation of the world." not continue fighting a war of He was of the opinion that this character unless "we de- materials must no longer be fine our objectives."

of the Central British School (1922 "It is recalled that other recent from a bomb-situles of Goering wore fever con- ing

fight and was killed with three firmed, others.

British officers claimed that they This is the third former pupil of heard the report that Goering had the Central British School who has been wounded from different people alven his life in the present war: In in the different places which they addition, one is missing and another traversed. is a prisoner of war.

Soo Back Page For Further Late. Nows

Churchill's Thrilling Trans-Atlantic

Trip

(By "Reuter's" Special Correspondent With

The Royal Navy)

LONDON, Aug. 18 (Reuter)-Estoried. by destroyers of the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy, the giant battleship Prince of Wales has reached a British port and thus ended the 'Prime Minister's amazing journey.

Insurgents Of ‘Iraq

*I was in one of the British second place that he should return in To Face Trial escort and never once did we blaze of publicity. Omcers aboard

our destroyer sight any hostile craft, either scratched their heads and looked at 'JERUSALEM,' Aug 10 (Reuter)in the air or on the sen or me for explanation when they heard The former commander of the Iraqi

beneath

over the ward-room wireless that MF Royal Bodyguard and a number of army officers suspected of complicity It was truly an amazing voyago Churchill was returning in the Prince- in Rashid All's revolt have been amazing in the first place in the of Wales.

It seemed to us as If an open pisced on the retired list according significance that the Primo Minister to a. Baghdad telegram. A military should travel across the Atlantic and challenge, had been issued to Hilar court has been set up to try the hold a series of conferences with to do his worst, for there we were, offenders who took part in the rising. President Roosevelt, and in the TURN to Back Page, Column