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Reds Say Nazi Gains Cost 2,000,000
FROM PAGE ‘ONE
LETTERS
Cruelty To Pigeon The Editor,
Hongkong Telegraph.
WAS
August 22, 1941.
!
Nazi Girls' Labour Camp Was No Lark
Sir-It has been brought to our Helen Hielt, former NBC the Dnieper but small danis on asserted that dicir efforts to destroy notice that a member of the Public foreign correspondent who now the tremendous one hundred millioir brought to a place of amusement in breadcasts in the U.S.A. was dollar dam near Duleperatrov, for the Colony a live pigeon, which the purpose of flooding the lower let loose and the guests were invited interviewed recently by Joan Dnieper valley and thereby impede to catch it, the person catching it Ellis over the radio on her ex- the German advance had falled on being given a prize. Immediately the periences in a Nazi labour camp
notice of tlio Immenalty of the matter was brought to the
for girls. necount of
took the management, the Munuger structure.
Miss Hiett joined the inbour steps to prevent its recurrence. The Germans claim that the
am instructed Committee camp in Berlin to get first-hand
ructed by my Russian losses during the two months to point out that amusements of this information on how the camps of fighting totals 5,000,000 men nature are cruel, and to ask members were run. They usserted that the battle of of the Public to co-operate with the
"We were up at 5 a.m.," Miss Hlett Gomel on the north Ukrainian front
Socicly in trying to prevent similar
recalled: "washed by throwing pails has successfully ended after ten daya so-called forms of amusement and to of water on each other and at 6 am. of severe fighting in which it is say that the Society will be most claimed that they destroyed or de- grateful to anybody who will let us fented twenty five Russian, divisions. know either of my proposal for so. The German northern drive is called entertainment of this nature following
Remi-circular
course or of similar incidents. towards Leningrad where. Morshal Voroshilav bas urged the people to "rise to a man and crush the insolent arrogant foe,"
Dnieper Dam Report
LONDON, Aug 21 (UP).- Authoritative sources after ப thorough investigation to-day an nounced that there was no confirma- tion to the reports that the Russians hod dynamited the Duleper dam; con- sequently, there is no indication of the Ureatened flooding of that vast area between Zaporoje and the Black Sen.
Destruction of Warships
I am. Sir, Yours faithfully,
W. REES HARRISS.
Secretary.
WAR WAGES
AND COST
OF LIVING
LONDON, Aug. 21 (British Wire- less). The instruction to take steps
were on the fields. The food was mainly potatoes, although the Nazis would boast about how the giris gained weight while
in these labour battalions. You had to goin weight, cause all you ate was pola- locs.
The worst thing though, and the reason I finally had to resign, was the propaganda. You'd get back to the bunkhouse at night just ex- hausted; too tired to sleep. While in this condition the propaganda
would start.
would drum at you, from Ioudspeakers and speakers, and soon you'd And yourself believing it. You were üred, exhausted and couldn't fight it. it would creep into your subconscious mind.
"When I found myself repeating It, I get out."
URGES YOUTHS
TO BE CURIOUS
MOSCOW, Aug. 21 (Reuter).-M. to bring war wage advances into line NOBEL WINNER Lorovsky, Deputy Chief of the In- with the increased cost of living formation Bureau, denying German which yesterday's delegate. con- claims that they have captured an ference of Transport
General and unfinished Russian battleship and Workers' Union gaye its
its executive, other vessels at Nikolaiev, said that represents a move in the disputed the facts were that the unfinished question of the method by which the and unenglued battleship and A stabilisation of wages and prices can cruiser on the stocks were blown up be secured, which is occupying the by the Russians together with the attention of both the Government
and leadera of organised labour. shipyards.
Winter Campaign ·
<DY "REUTER'S" SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
ANKARA, Aug. 21 (Reuter)
the
SCHJENECTADY, N. Y. (UP).— summer job is the best way for a boy to find his life work, in opinion of a Nobel prize winner, Dr Irving. Langmuir, whose discoveries The Transport and General made possible the gas-filled incan- Workers' Union in one of the largest descent lamp, the high-vacuum elec- Unions in industry and is represented tronic tube and atomic hydrogen
solely or in' conjurellon with other welding many young men quilo
Bevin Supportą
Addressing the conference
"It
Unions on wage negotiation machin- German officers in Russia have reery in a great many industries. some time to become orlented and celved Instructions from Berlin 10 tell the troops that the severity of the
started on their careers," he explain- ed. "The boys who devote their Russian winter is grossly exaggerated and that all the men need to with-
vacations to discovering summer their own interests and abilities are stand the rigours of winter is thick Monday, the Minister of Labour, Mri clothing plus valinkis (Russian felt Bevin who has devoted many years us far ahead of those who, after
just boots), which are to be taken from to the creation of this Union, made they are graduated, flounder from the peasants.
_cica
clear that the Government were job to job until they find the works These instructions, which. I learn stabilisation which
wage for which they are best suited." Ined on its policy of
Here is Dr Langmuir's formula for from an authoritative source, show himself opposed until the Govern-rain yourselves. Don't wait to
he had polley that Hitler realises that winter ment decided to stabilise prices, and campaign is inevitable and that bis he stressed the view that the workers' be fed knowledge out of a book, Get men are nervous about the winter. own interests are always injured by out and seek it. Make explorations.
Berlin Raided
MOSCOW, Aug. 21 (Reuter) — Russlan planes raided Berlin last night, causing free, says Moscow Radio,
It is also stated that all Russian planes returned safely.
German Comparison
21
determined
the fact that the rise in prices wl always outstrip the rise in wages.
Hitler Suspected
FROM PAGE ONE
DERLIN, Aug.
(UP). The sin on a new front. Secondly, it is official news agency claims that likely that the Iranian balloon will during the past five days the Luft- go up shortly. waffe shot down or destroyed on the ground on the eastern front 5290 Soviet planes compraed with the loss
of teh German plunes.
Russians Abandon Gomel
FROM PAGE ONE
Italy After Croats?
Helsinki:-The "Afton Bladet's" Berlin_correspondent states that it is unconfirmedly learned from private sources that Iiniy sent an ultimatum to Croatia, marched in during the forenoon and occupled the towns of Dubrovnik and Kraljevic despite Croatian realstance.
The same
Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind. Become curious"
An amateur fler, the scientist Be- leves that opportunities in aviation development will be "boundless" for youth. He predicts that aviation will progress tremendously after the war.
LATE
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Axis Evacuees From Manila
Oficials say that there is..nu_con-.. firmation to the rumour,
SHANGHAI, Aug. 21 (Rouler).— sources, declared Italian circles in The French, liner Marechal Joffre Berlin, believe that Mussolini will arrived here from Manila _this_morn- who suffered disastrous losses, ac-soon proceed to the eastern front to Ing with over 300 Japanese, German cording to the Germans, in their mee! Hitler. attempt to carry operations, and who are still trying
aut
to embark on transports,
evacuation
Along the Dnieper, according to German informed quarters, the Ger- mans are maintaining ceaseless pres- sure on the ever narrowing bridge. the westwards. It is said
heads 10
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"BRIGHAM
CENTRAL is reported that the majority of
Japanese are travelling to Japan, but
the Axis refugees are remaining here.
It is revealed that the ship was subjected to the most stringent
Mme Mary Anderson de Navarro search before her departure from that the Russians attempted to blow-Mary Anderson, the Shakespear-Manila. up the great Daleperstrov dam which year aged 80, left the bulk of her which can actress-who died in May Insti
£15,070 estate to her son, Jose M. de Navarro,
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the terrine
to be impossible
In her will, she said: "I desire to
the dam although the Russians express my love, gratitude and
to destroy it
Bunshine."
ure believed to have succeeded in admiration to him who has been our blowing up smaller dams further down the river causing મ certain amount of flooding which, may tem-
Lady Northcote, Returning
It is announced by Government House that Lady Northcote is expect- ed to return to the Colony early next week, and that she will attend social engagements with His Excellency on
borarily slow down the German GUENTHER STEIN Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
advance.
Oil Fields Damaged
The China Air Mail, a fortnightly ISTANBUL, Aug. 21 (UP)-news-letter service on For Eastern Arrivals from Constanza, the much Affairs, announces that owing to the bombed Rumanian of port on the finess of its Editor, Mr Guenther Black Sea, report that Russian alr Stein, publication will be delayed for raids have tremendously damaged the several weeks. Rumanion oli elds and pipelines Mr Stein is, in the War Memorial causing a great loss in oil products. Hospital here.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (Reuter)—A. call for President, Roosevelt to propose and Congress to approve a declaration of war against the Axis nations is made in the "New Republic." one of America's foremost liberal weeklies,
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