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GERMANS

THINK

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By ALEXEI TOLSTOY

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Named in 1939, as Soviet Russia's greatest living writer, the author of this dispatch, who is now acting as a war corres pondent, is a nephew of Count Leo Tolstoy. To English readers, he is known for his two novels, "Peter the Great" and "Darkness and Dawn."

returned to the forest. There we

MOSCOW. They lay in sian bayonets were noticeable. "We left no witnesses, set fire to fragrant grass in a thick nut I ordered the men to hold their to the tank trucks and planes and copse. Their telegraph instru- rifles on their knees. We soon spent the entire day. We heard spied three blue lights. This tanks passing and peppering the 20 SEATER BUSES AVAILABLE ments were well concealed. The was the German 'stop signal' at forest with machine-gun fire but we

sky, pallid in the heat, was de- the head of a motor column. were well sheltered.

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JAPAN MORASSED

ONLY the

super-optimist could hope for a violent change in Japan's political philosophy at this time, and continued lip ser- vice to the Tripartite Pact which marked its anniversary hardly comes 08 21 surprise. The deeper meaning behind this political gesture is not 50 obylous, but doubtless the im- pression which has held for so long-that Japan is playing for time before making decisions which will irretrievably commit her-remains dominant. Addi- tionally the official tokens to the Tripartite Pact may be a back handed method of indicating" that the Washington - Tokyo talks are doomed, and this point is given emphasis by the Hunan offensive which coincides with the Tripartite anniversary.

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The latest Japanese offensive in China has its importance for it threatens to wrest from Chungking control of Hunan's rich mineral resources and its vast rice production; neverthe- Jess

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radiator.

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01 narrow

"Schmelkov, the driver, switch-

Turned To Dvinsk There must have been an ed on the riding lights. Before

"At nightfall we decided to make anthill nearby, for every now us we saw a seven-ton truck our way along the River Dvina and and again Lieutenant Zhabin packed with cases, a white dise look for a spot to break through. kept brushing an insect from with a black Swastika on the The Nazis have no regular front, they Three officers in a wedge and if you have your wits

udvate full speed in his check: He seemed in no side road peered in our direc- about you, you can always creep hurry to get on with his story. tlon, poking flashlights at us, through their lines,

"The German soldier is not Schmelkov, the driver, switched

"As we moved forward we could allowed to think," he said, "it is on the headlights, the qficers see Dvinsk with flames reaching to blinked and shaded their eyes the very clouds. Such illuminations considered dangerous. His skull with their hands.

scem to be better than anovie shows is not fitted for fast action. He

to the Germans. Their planes circle We drove calmly past them around burning towns, firing at re- is slow on the pick-up. That is

fugees and driving wonen, children where we always get him, in and the motor column with our and old folks, back into the flames, heads averted so as not to show those few seconds while he is the red star on our helmets. trying to put two and two to. Adding speed we dashed through gether."

a deserted village.

"I've got Schmelkov, a driver with a head on his shoulders," Zhabin replied.

"Well, we were mad and spolling for a scrup. We stopped a passenger car with three German officers and before we finished them off we made them turn their faces toward Dvinsk. They must have found less enter- teining than a movie on this occasion,

cut many

telegraph wires

"We

"But Comrade Zhabin," inter-. Halted By Grenade rupted the man with the note--

"Near'a wooden church in an open book in his hand, "tell me how

automobile sat a wrinkled Germun you managed to spend so many officer, with a drooping Adam's.ap- days behind the Nazi Hines with ple, examining a map with the ail of and then attacked a column of ten 25 Red army men and get away a flashlight. I barely manged to tank trucks. We Anished off their unscathed."

seize one of our men by the arm; ws, emptied the tanks and set are he was about to lean out of the cab to the gasoline. We regretted this for It made too bright fire. We saw and hurl a hand grenade,

three heavy tanks und regretted that "Nevertheless the officer's suspici- we had no bottles of gasoline with

been aroused. We MR. ons must have

But two grenade throwers took were soon overtaken by a 20-horse- power motorcycle with sidecar all the grenades H

they could from carrying

This their comrades, ran ahead and hid machine-gunner. 21 "You ask how we got behind time my soldier let his grenade go at the roadside and each of them the German lines? I was order and with such good effect that the threw a bundle of grenades under ed to concentrate all signals in machine-gunner rose a yard and a tank.

half out of his sidecar as if he wanted the hamlet of Dubki and main- to tell us something important, while and blew to pieces from the detonn- "The first one rose up on its rear tain contact with headquarters the driver and the cycle toppled tion of its own shells. The others were damaged and could only keep firing Into the darkness."

Bayonet Effective

dich.

Planes Overhead

Suddenly Lieut. Zhabin stopped

to the bitter end. While there headlong into I got myself surrounded.

"At down we reached a small "Towards evening two Ger we camouflaged the trucks and sat wood and here our gasoline ran out, man motor trucke packed with down for a ment. Suddenly one of unsuspecting Nazis drove into our men clamped his teeth on his Dubki. We calmly let the Ger- biscuit, turned his head, jumped up his recital and sprang lightly to his mans through and then began and dashed into the ferns. We heard ing, drogging a lad of about nine peppering them from the flanks a squeak and there he was return- with machine-guns.

by the hand, a close-cropped, snub- nosed boy with furious eyes.

"When they piled out of the Let me go, complained the boy, machines and scattered, we "Don't you see I am a friend, cheered and went after them

German Nerves with the bayonet. The Ger- -mans don't like that. Some "The lad managed to get away.

feel.

"Enemy planes," he called.

At once all was movement beneath. the nut bushes. Five Nazi bombers passed overhead at a great height. Scarcely, ive minutes had elapsed

nce the signallers had passed word to the alefeld, when a squadron of our fighter planes appeared on the Inteligent. cene. They hummed like a stretched proved Before the sun rose he had led wire-powerfully-and-formidably and us into another part of the forest. To steeply above the bombers. "Their officer dashed into On the edge of the forest slood ga50- some reeds and hid himself ag

The heavy Nazi planes turned tall. Lank trucks and five German But too late. The sound of machine- line fighting planes, We the water with only his nostrils work of them.

made short German sentries was heard from the pallid sky. The fighters swooped One bomber showing. We found important were pacing up and down to keep suddenly turned his nose downward themselves awake. My snipers had documents in his bag.

them biting the dust in a few mo- and fell, leaving a long trail of smoke

"We started up the German ments. trucks and I piled by 25 meri "Then we jumped out of the ferns into them. We drove along the with a loud hurrah. That cry had front behind the Nazi lines. bad effect on German nervos, worse For the first hour or so we did than howling bombs. The Fascists crawled out of their holes. Some put not meet a soul,

up their hands at once, others began We "Our steel helmets might be firing wildly with automaties,

bayoneted 20 of them. One air-

behind it.

CAPTA CASTELLO -HERO

Captain Cartello, of the Red Air Force, was on a rild over Germany, Ils plane was hit and burst into flames,

Instead of baling Out, he nose-dlved towards a cluster of all storage tanks and deliberately crashed.

Several caught fire and exploded, soiting fire to trucks,

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The picture above was radioed to London va New York. Below is an artist's impression of his fcat,

CONTRACT How to Play

AND

How to Win

BRIDGE substantial Japanese taken for German in the dark- man we pulled out of his plane by

success in this area will not be ness. Only our four-edged Rus- his parachute strap.

sufficient to determine the Sino- Japanese conflict and must, therefore, be regarded more as a determined attempt to appease discontented spirits in Japan with a tangible military achieve- ment.

The Political and military developments of the past few weeks in the Pacific serve only to illustrate and re-state the hopeless muddle into which Japan has placed herself: Sho has made herself practically friendless, choosing to lean towards Nazi Germany who has demonstrated only too often that she makes pacts solely for her own gains, and that should the occasion ever ariso she will not hesitate to put Japan against the wall Japan's military com- mitments in China andelso- where are now causing her grave concern and her vital war resources are being tapped to a disturbing extent. These aro factors which normally would give any nation pauso to think; but Japan is in a political as well na a military morass, and op portunistic action is likely to continue to remain the cred of hereadors creed which finally must bring for the nation unhappy, results

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-By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON-

Penalty Doubles Hard to Figure".

"DEAR Mrs Culbertson: I don't club, then led lowy toward the know how others feel about spade queen. I put up the king it but to my way of thinking, the and shifted to the ace and queen of most tantalizing

department of trumps, trying to break up the bridge is penalty doubles. Some cross-ruff. The heart king won, the times, when we double with what spade queen was cashed, and de- look like a rock-crusher, the de- clarer then used his last trump to clarer romps home with the contract ruc another club. The spade ace and laughs in our faces; other times, disposed of dummy's last club, and when we have nothing resembling a when declarer continued spades. I sound, double, the contract may go could take my hight trump when

that was the pleased, but down three or four tricks. Take the ever i

for instance. I. On reanalysis, we agreed that following hand, unhappily, was West.

defence could have defeated "South dealer.

contract.

To top all aff, my part-

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are scarcely in order. It is hard to imagine that anyone would question West's double · of four hearts, but I conn

cannot share my

37662 correspondent's incredulity that the

contract should have been fulfilled.- Not that

-East-

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not expect to de- the contract with West's, hand simply mean that everyones my

included, has had far better doubles

astray There are very few "guaranteed" doubles

To-morrow's Hand

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"When South opened with one spade, 1 decided that trapping was my best bet. The opponents were vulnerable, we weren't, and if they tried to go anywhere. It looked as though I would be able to throw them for a sizable loss. Hearts, mentioned by South on the second round, sulted me even better than spades, so I continued to ste ught! When North, bid four hearts. I licked Ara my shops and let 'em have it. What How should South play his six

a misfire it, turned out to bet AZA

Opened the club king. The ace spade contract, doubled by

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