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encircling movement is proceeding successfully north of Novgorod.

Central Sector

The

Germans- admit counter- attacks on the central sector, say the correspondents, but they claim that the Russions "have not reached their goal" nor have they succeeded In regaining the west bank of the Dnieper despite continued efforts. Finnish Claim

Swedish correspondents in Finland say that the Russians are now hold- across the Stalin Line ling the

Karelian. Isthmus.

The Finns claim that they have miles captured Sakkola, about 50 southeast of Viborg, and have reach- ed Talpale, just east of Sakkola,

It is claimed that Russian prisoners have reported the death of Major- Ceneral Selicatsov, Commanding the Hoth Russian Division,

Guerillas In Bessarabia

Sept. 2 (Reuter). MOSCOW,

of Soviet guerlin detach- Successes ments' operations in the Bessarabian distrlet now occupied by German and Rumantan armies are described in a supplementary to the Soviet mid-day communique.

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y bold raids and blowing up the installations, guerillas are

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it says. supplies," himself did not know whe had dump-

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tanks and armoured cars, Sergeant John Hannah, V.C.. During August, guerillas destroyed

chemy with stones was Wong San-yu, said nineteen-year-old R.A.F. bom-32 lurries with ammunition, 44 wag- U, who was asked by the Commisber hero, was shy over his de-ons with supplies and over 40 petrol sion to furnish the man's address,

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During these operations, guerillas killed and wounded over In connection with the manufac coration, but shyer still over his dumps,

400 Rumanian soldiers and officers." ture of concrete blocks for use by wedding.

Black Sea Air Arm the A.R.P. Department; U said that He married Miss Janet Ben- his Orm alarted to make these

During the past three days, bom- ever, of Oakham, at the register] blocks sometime about September or October last year. Instructions were office in that town, and he had bers of the Black Sea Flect air arm

and on given by the late Mr C. C. A. Hobbs, nude careful plans to keep his carried out several ralds on ports enemy troops. "Direct hils A. R. P. Architect. A tender for the romance a secret.

submitted in the usunt work

Only the fact that the engine or put one enemy vessel out of action | TOMORROW

and our pilots also destroyed over course, but there was no written his sports enr, parked outside the re- 50 armoured oars and many auto- contract. He said that he thought gister office, wouldn't got away to a

session,

was

The supplementary

our

communique

In the Smolensk direction there must have been certain orders bomber start and had to be looked matic weapons." NATHAN it writing. These the Commission into, caused the bystanders to realise troops crushed an infantry regiment Instructed him to produce at the next that the smile was the youngest V.C. of the 161st Division. Only eight to

of this war ivar

ten men remained in the regiment's John Hannah and his bride tried 10 companies. Cost of Concrete Blocks The total number of blocks supioid the photographers-and-well-Nazis Call-On-Reservas plied up to date, said U, was 425,000, wishers of the staff of the Rutland at a cost of 494 cents per block. County Counell who spotted the

wig Robert, who was taken prisoner, The blocks measured 17% by 82 happy pair walking down, the gravel attributes to a German officer, Lud- a statement that as a result of losses by 814 inches, Further examined on sizc

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on the eastern front the German High recall originally suggested was 18 by by "My boy is too young to have any Command had been obliged this point, he admitted that thed on path of the council office building.

ler size made said.

countries, including France, Belgium block was nude because the girls yet, his mother in Glasgow German garrisons from the occupied The girl John Hannah married 1s and Holland, Some of them were original size was found to be unsuit- able.

young like him petite and brunette, reservists originally replacing regu- wore a floral dress and a far coldiers and these in turn were fashionable hat, and looked charm-now replaced by wounded men.

Siege of Odessa

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He never tendered for the bigger size, and never since the making of these blocks was begun had there been any alteration in the measure- ments.

the blocks were

U stated that

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Sergeant Hannah was n boot shop Odessa water works which are out- VICHY, Sept. 2 (Reuter).-General Henri Deniz, former- made to sparifications supplied. His salesman before the war and quickly side the city, according to the Gerly Vichy High Commissioner in Syria, who was held by the Am also made the moulds. Once a won promotion. He was

week, a sample would be taken from

the

yard for test by un AR.P. off-operator-gunner.

vial, but he could not himself say who this officin was. He said that his foreman, Lam Wal, would be able to supply this information, and was accordingly asked by the Com- mission to instruct Lam to appear at the next sitting,

Cavities Not Cracks Photos taken at the yard were then and produced by the Coinmission handed to U. Asked by the Chair- man if a man seen in one of the pictures was not engaged in ling

in cracks in the concrete block, U stated that there were no cracks. but only cavities, which were caused by the foulty electriu vibrator. There were, he said, only two or three such cavities in every hundred blocks.

When shown other photographs taken at the same time, U admitted. that the blocks shown were mostly cracked. He stated, however, that ull such cracked blocks were con- demned, and not a single one left the the the

Producing other photographs, Chairman said: We can.test truth of that statement. Here is a photograph of such cracked blocks! actually erected in Wonchat near the Southern Playground.

The Inquiry is proceeding.

Britain Training Dog Army

.Somewhere in England are woll- milliary equipped, well-guarded kennels in which several hundred dogs of war, chosen from 70,000) offered to the War Office after on appeal, are preparing to inke their place in the first line of defence.

The Airedales, collies, retrievers Will and pointers now in training remain at their kernels for another five months before being posted either to "hush-hush" experimental work, or to lonely outposts on the coast, where they will act as watch-

a radio man.omcial news agency,

LATE NEWS

British pending the return of Allied prisoners is to be released. Appeal To Italians MOSCOW, Sept. 2 (Reuter)-M.according to the Vichy news agency.

of Vice-Cominissar Lozovsky, the

The exchange of French and the Soviet Information Bureau, stated to-day that Hitler had appealed to British prisoners following the Mussolini to fill the gaps caused by events in Syria is practically the huge Nazi losses on the eastern completed. the agency says.

front.

Midnight Communique

General Dentz and a certain

MOSCOW, Sept. 3 (Reuter).The number of French officers were Soviet midnight communiqué states held ns prisoners until a group that stubborn fighting continued along of British officer prisoners who

NAZIS CONCEDE

BATTLE WILL BE

HARD AND LONG

LONDON, Sept. 2 (British Wire-

the whole front during September 2. had been landed on an Italian less). As the third year of the war

According available, 75

to precise data now

island when the plane in which

131 as Pro August 30 and not they were being taken to Francosome hard facts. The widely-read

destroyed

German planes were

reported.

On August 31, 23 German planes were brought down in air combate We lost 22 plance.

Rumania Suffers

on

Rumanian hospitals, according to the same source, are crowded with wounded; there are 70,000. In Bucharest alone.

be preparing the nation to swallow Pens, the Germaan press appears to had to come down, were return-Frankfurter Zeitung" for instance

stoles: ed to the British Army.

Change of Heart

"Every German should have known General Dentz and General Jenal-at the beginning of the war that this kin and all French officers will short-mennt a battle for life and death, and

to beat England.

British MOSCOW, Sept. 2. (Reuter) ly leave, Beirut for France except that it would not be an easy task

Lieutenant- and

"We Bght not only the More than a million tons of oil have two generals

Colonel who will be kept aa prisoners armies but also British propaganda been destroyed by Soviet ralds

which has succeeded in creating a Rumanian all-fields and refineries, untli several British officers who

were wounded and are now being devilish hatred of National Socialism says an article in "Pravda" to-day.

treated in French hospitals are freed and its representatives. We do not deny this fact as obviously the majo- rity of the British and American peo Several officials are being held on pic, including leading members of the of certain Free French Church, approve the support given to

Stalin in his fight against Hiller." taken prisoner. officers who were These officers' no.longer wish to re- Join the Free French movement. It is thought that they may be able to declare on oath at the United States Embassy that they took their decision freely so that it may be possible to liberate the French officials.

Thailand Call For count

Peace

FROM PAGE ONE

:

manders-in-Chief of the Navy and Air Force.

Swedes Banned From Reichswehr

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH

(UP) The BERLIN Sept. 2

This announcement is generally Labour Day Casualties Ministry of Defence to-day announc

Defence

considered another important step in Thailand's preparedness to meet all eventualities in the present critical situation in the Far East.

It is recalled that the Premier re- cently lightened his own burden of departmental duties by relinquishing the three portfoilos of Foreign Affairs and Interior.

In the meanwhile, Bangkok is going ahead with air raid precaut tions and air raid shelters are under construction In many open'altes in the centre of the city and in barks on the oily outskirts, skins

ed that in the future Swedish citizens

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHI would not be permitted to servo in NEW YORK, Sept. 2 '(UP),—The any army except the Finnish It la United States to-day counted the recalled that a wack ago the press heavy death toll over Labour Day revealed that recruiting was going week-end trame fatalities increased on for the Waffen 8.8. (black shiris). chorply over last year, Baby The German Lagation at that time A survey.... disclosed that at least told the United Press that any Swode, 432 persons were killed in accidents had the right to enlist in the German during the three days compared to army but admitted that only about a

dozen had Joined up." 204 year ago.

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