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Oil Stores Destroyed "At Benghazi, both the harbour and shipping were bombed while of Barce of storage buildings were destroyed.

LONDON, Sept. 10 (British Wire-blazing furlously. The ship later Icas). Inaugurating "Churchill exploded with grent violence, Week" in the borough of Wanstead and Woodford, which is part of the Prime Minister's conallluency, the Mayor.. Mr R. E. Fidler, expressed the hope that the week would mark the beginning

a national movement. g of a The aim of the special effort is to reach the £2,000,000 mark in national savings in the borough before the end of this year,

Sir James Hawkey, former Mayor, announced a promise of £100,000 from Sir

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Roosevelt Reports On Lend-Lease

FROM PAGE ONE

and at all strategic points where the aggressor may strike."

America must offer "not only a shield but n sword," tools for final and total victory to "those people who are gallantly shedding their blood in the front lines this struggle."

Mr Roosevelt sold the people of the United States know we cannot live in world dominated by Hitlerism.

Money Spent

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September 16, 1941.

MacAVOY

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MOSCOW

Defences Growing Stronger

MOSCOW, Sept. 15 (Reuter). "The few. German planes was at Gerbini Saturday night. bombed by the Fleet Air Arm during which have thus far managed to break through Moscow's outer mentioned, one other British aircraft barrage such as Berlin rarely "In addition to those already | defences have been greeted by n

lu missing.

"The crew of one Drlish aircraft managed to send up." said Mr reported lost in the Mediterranean on Dennis MacAvoy, the C.B.S. September 12 have now been brought correspondent (who passed to safely."

"Others Destroyed.

through Hongkong recently) in CAIRO, Sept. 15. (Reuter)-in a radio talk from Moscow to-day. addition to the destrucllon of enemy, He added: "A traveller from other before, two wartime capitals is amazed by the mentioned German aircraft of the Junkers 87 lack of damage here, for only a care- type were fire und anothed by anti-aircraft i ful search reveals where any German was compelled to bombs have fallen. make a forced landing, the crew

alrcraft

being captured.

The attack by our fighters on the Gambut landing ground was very successful, a number of enemy sir craft being severely damaged.

Last night the attack on this loading ground was resumed by the Fleet Air Arm. Their bonbing re- sulted in eight enemy aircraft being left in lumes and some half a dozen others damaged,

"Night fighters have accounted for many of the Nazi losses thus for and daily the defences of Moscow are German raida growing stronger. thus far have been ineffectual and the long promised air blitzkrieg appears to have been indefinitely postponed.

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Serious Situation

FROM PAGE ONE

Dir

"There is only ceaseless labour bem of determination to protect the lives and the physical appearance of Moscow and to defend its ground to the last. Every large apartment houses has a commandant or manager,

ins er bulding

raid, all able- Eedled men in

withou! exception must report for duty. Most of them are assigned to roots und specially treated gauntlets and hoods are distributed to them along with tengs to pick up Incendiary bomba. we are now engaged in a most

"For more

more than ten years there has elfort for national been a special newspaper in Moscow thoroughgoing defence. In order to meet adequately devoted to features and articles on

ruld

la published precautions. It the steps being taken by aggressor air

by a

a society called Anti-Air Itald and Unity of Purpose

Palcon Gas Society, For

or years the public have been treated "We all know that for the success- fut accomplishment of such a vast systematie campaign of instruction in undertaking there must be unity of the arts of disposing of fire-bombs, The report sakt 80 per cent, of purpose, unity of sentiment and a decontamination, wearing $100,000,000 worth of defence exports keen desire to make whatever sacri- masks and first aid technique." were made in the past three months.

Aces which

may be necessary in This demonstrates. says the report,order to obtain our objective, that Lense-Land goods being frank- "The American Legion is an on- ported were being absorbed by ship-ganisation extending through plug almost as rapidly as they are nation

even to the smallest com- being made available.

munity with a membership in excess of one million and it is of tremendous importance in stimulating the

strong patriotism of true citizenship.

Of the appropriation of $7,000,000,- anu, su,281,000,000 has been allocated, actual transfers to foreign govern- ments are placed at approximately $248,000,000 compared with $75,000, 000 which the President reported to Therefore Congress on May 31, transfers during the past three months amounted to about $171,000,-

000

What Empire Received Including supplies which Britain financed herself, the British Empire actually obtained about $4,400,000,000 In goods since the war began, Mr Roosevelt

vell reported.

Ile asserted, however, that "the rite of our production must be accelerated every step to achieve that end must and will be taken.

"Although Russia has been

and

for her war supplies and has received. nu Lease-Lend help, President Roosevelt complimented "the gallant resistance of the Russian

people," which had been of enormous help to all peoples resisting the Nazi war machine.

President Roosevelt said that the energies of the American Government

nations.

the

"It is a source of

satisfac- tion that we have find your full co- operation in the development of the national defence programme in all its aspects. I feel confident that the Administration and nation can count on the same Interest and co-opera-| tion fa meeting whatever lies ahead. TRADE UNIONS

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Briton, Age 112, Passes

Life of Moderation LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuter). Mr oklest man. Britain's Alfred Charles Nunez Arnold, died to-day, at the age of 112 at a Liverpool Convalescent Home at Woolston.

He was a keen student of Yogl-Ism and attributed his long ille and good health to its study and to "modera- |tion in all things,"

Mr Amold was left un orphen, at BOMBAY, Sept. 15 (Reuter). Then early age and was brought up by his uncle in London. He was arst Executive of the All-India Anti-destined to be an opera singer, being Fascists Trades Union Council,

were making available to Russian the

move of the British world and working for many news-

urgently needed supplies.

Naval & Military Bates

claiming to represent over 150,000 contemporary of Jennie Lind. Ho have passed a resolution then took up journalism, touring the Union Congress to set up an three wars and found himself in war correspondent "papers. He was

many light corners. Council Lo inlensliy the anti- Fascist struggle and safeguard the in- terests of workers, and condemning the attitude of the All-India Trade Unien Congress.

The report disclosed that some of joint Anglo-Soviet Trades Uniun the Lease-Lend funds had been utilised to build naval and military

bases for Britain. Administration officials declined to disclose the whereabouts of these bases but the amount of aid for them was about $12,000,000.

President Roosevelt, reporting the details of material involved, said that contracta had been placed and work had been started on nearly $1,000,- 000,000 worth of bombers. He said that

and aircraft

aeronautical materials accounted for over one- third of the total contracts under the current Lease-Lend programme,

The report shows that the United States has supplied a fleet of trucks to China as well as freighters to carry war supplies and paying material for repairing the Burma Road.

Desperate Fight For Leningrad

FROM PAGE ONE

and drove their way through line after line of deep defences. It is elaimed that one million Soviet troops and nearly four million of the popula tion are now crushed together in an area of about 130 square miles.

One Propaganda Company dispatch claimed that mixed German and allied units Szy the severe Sighting drove deep into Nognjhkajn between the Dnieper and Heavy rain has also fallen on the southern front. Well-informed Ger- man sources admitted that Marshal Budenny's troops are fighting Aercely, laying down heavy arilllery barrages on the advancing Germans.

Spanish and Portuguese and was He spoke French, German, Dutch, occasionally heard on the B.B.C.

ה

He was presented with two big elgars by King Edward VII when he, then Prince of Wales, had coffee LONDON, Sept. 15 (Router).-A with Disraeli and tea with Charles week-long boycott of German-con- Dickens. trolled Czech newspapers began yes- MrArnold was, until recently,"

terday on the fourth anniversary of living in St Pancras Hospital, London,

the death of Thomas Masuryk, first but was evacuated on his 112th birth- President of Czecho-Slovakia.

day, two months ago.

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