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U. S. Warships Arrive In Australia
Russians Pictured by Germans as Utterly Befogged
U. S. to Regard as Threatening Jap Move Thailand
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HeK.hki, c'aptiaj of FiiAa|nd (1), Underwent an intensive aerial
bombardment and Finnish guns hammetfed the Russian-leased na
val base of Hango. The Russians claimed they had halted a thrust
past Ostrov, toward Leningrad, and action in the central sector
(2) was generally severe in the Polotsk area. Another center of
battle was at Novograd Yolynski (3). Claims on the Bessarabian
area fighting conflicted, Russians claiming a victory at Balti (4).
Germans Picture Russians Utterly
Befogged, Thousands Are Taken
Russians: Invaders Disintegrating
UNDATED, Aug. 6 </P) —Field
headquarters, picturing Russian
leadership as utterly befogged,
reported the capture of 895.000
Red Army prisoners; the destruc
tion or capture of 13,145 armored
cars and tanks; 10j388 guns; 9,082
planes.
The Russians, however, declar
ed they are resisting everywhere.
Hitler’s headquarters detailed
at length, what it described as
lunges through the Soviet de
fense system “at three decisive
points”: south of Pinsk, in the
marshes of the Smolensk sector
on the road to Moscow, and
south of Lake Peipus, below Len
ingrad. A German war bulletin
asserted that the bloody tihree
weeks-old battle of Smolensk end
ed victoriously for the Nazi in
vasion forces driving on Moscow.
The onslaught in this sector was
described “historically" as an un
abating sequence of destructive
blows against the Bolshevist
forces,” under the direction of
Field Marshal General Fedor von
Bock, the command said.
In the south, a Nazi war re
view asserted that German, Hun
garian and Slovak trops smashed
forward “to the gates of Kiev.”
The communique went on, “with
this break-through, deep beyond
tthe Stalin Line, it became pos
sible to turn to the southward on
the broad front between the Dnie
ster and Dnieper Rivers, to cut
off the enemy’s retreat and begin
an encirclement in a battle which
presently will be raging in full
fury.”
By contrast, Russia’s Vice Com
missar Lozovsky reported ‘the
process of the disintegration of
the German Army has begun.”
Hitler’s blitzkrieg legions crack
ed when the period of easy vic
tories ended and the “period of
heavy losses begun.”
Germans Make
70-Mile Thrust
UNDATED, Aug. 5 {JP) — Ger
man panzer forces have driven a
new 70-mile-deep salient into the
heart of the Soviet defense sys
tem between Moscow and Lenin
grad, the Russians acknowledg
ed. Berlin reported that the con
flict has now developed into two
vast battles of annihilation, in
which the Germans reported
great slaughter of the trapped
Red Armies.
The Communist Party newspa
per Pravda declared “Day by day
our counterattacks are becoming
all stronger and of a wider
scope.” Pravda said Hitler launch
ed the invasion with gigantic
forces, including 30 tank divi
sions totaling 15,000 tanks; 10,000
first line warplanes and 170 divi
sions, or two or three times the
forces originally available to the
Accuse U.S. Try
Take Azores
BERLIN, Aug. 6 UP) — An au
tihorized spokesman said the Ger
man government was an “atten
tive observer” to what it called
President Roosevelt’s efforts to
get Brazil to occupy Portugal’s
Azores Island. The spokesman
declared “there are reports of ul
t'lmaie pressure on Brazil toward
this purpose. How far Brazil is
willing to go and how far she
can be cajoled is not a matter for
us to judge but we know it is up
to the people of the United Stat
es to determine how far they sfre
going to be a tool of Roosevelt’s
aggressive policy and a reckon
ing of consequences is sooner or
later likely to occur.”
He said Portugal has strength
ened her military position in the
Azore and Portuguese dignitaries
have visited the islands “to call
attention to the fact that Portu
gal considers the islands outposts
of her sovereignty.” '
Jap Moves Pacific
Threatening U. S.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 <fl») —
Secretary of State Hull said Jap
anese intention toward Thailand
and the southwest Pacific area,
are a matter of increasing con
cern to the United States govern
ment. The government has made
clear, he told a press conference,
that its vital interests are in op
position to any move of conquest
in the Pacific or elsewhere. This
he added, applies to Thailand.
The Japanese move on Thailand,
he indicated, will be considered
as a step menacing American se
curity and endangering Ameri
can territory in the Pacific.
Red Army.
Nazi military dispatches said
the encirclement and destruction
of large Red Army forces south
of Kiev is well under way and
indicated that the clean-up of
the bloody Smolensk sector is in
its final stages.
Hitler’s field headquarters re
ported that Red Army units at
tempting to smash their way out
of a trap in the Ukraine, were
annihilated. The communique al
so declared that “in the widen
ing break-through region, sixty
miles southeast of Smolensk, a
new enemy power group was
partly destroyed.”
DNR reported that 6,000 Rus
sian prisoners were captured in
the Ukraine along with 50 can
non and 368 trucks. The gravity
of the Red Army situation south
of Kiev was indicated in a DNB
dispatch asserting that German
troops captured 43 Soviet defense
bunkers.
On the central front, DNB said
German troops repulsed desper
ate counter-attacks by tank-led
Soviet forces around Smolensk,
and that a new German thrust
knifed to the vicinity of Kgolm
in the Marshlands, 70 miles east
of last week’s battlefield at Nov
orzhev. A Red Army bulletin ad
mitted that Kgolm was taken.
Kgo'm-is 180 miles south of Len
ingrad and 250 miles northwest
of Moscow.
United States Warships Arrive
Australia On Training Cruise
Following Maneuvers So. Pacific
UNDATED, Aug. 5 <(fP) — Unit
ed States warships arrived in
Australia “on a training cruise,”
the Navy Department announced,
even as tension in the Oriet heigh
tened over the reported massing
of Japanese troops at Russia’s
back, for the continuance of Jap
anese pressure on little Thailand.
Without reference to the Far
East crisis, the Navy said the
United States heavy cruisers
North Hampton and Salt Lake
City arrived at Brisbane for “re
fueling and several days of re
creation” for the ships crews,
after a cruise in the south Pac
ific.
British Forces
Arrive Singapore
Coincidentally, the British an
nounced officially that a large
number of British and Indian
troops, including Royal Air Force
personnel, arrived at Singapore.
Dispatches from Saigon said a
well-equipped Chinese army is
reported massed at the Burma
border ready to cross at a mo
ment’s notice to join British fore
es presumably against any Japan
ese attacks against the British in
Burma and Malaya.
Explosion In Far
East Draws Near
Hourly it appeared “an explo
sion” in the Far East is drawing
near. Reports from Bangkok said
that officials wouldn’t deny that
Japan is applying presure for the
granting cf certain demands and
that Thailand is facing a momen
tous decision in her relations to
Japan, Britain, and the United
States.
London reports said the Japan
ese were demanding air bases in
Thailand within 409 miles strik
ing distance of the British cita
del. Singapore.
The Japanese newspaper Ko
kumin, by cpntrast, asserted that
Thailand “is under merciless pres
sure" by the United States and
Britain.
Jap, Soviet Troops
Clash Manchukuo
The Japanese Army spokesman
asserted that Japanese and Rus
sian troops clashed near the Man
chukuo-Siberian frontier, where
authoritative quarters in London
reported that Japan “substantial
ly reinforced the Manchukuo
garrison of a quarter of a million
men.
Manchukuo Swarming with Japs
Dispatches from Shanghai said
the Yellow Sea port of Dairen,
port of entry for Manchukuo, is
swarming with Japanese troops,
horses, artillery, large quantities
of munitions and other supplies,
constantly moving through the
streets.
Marine Insurance Rates Upped
All Japanese ships have left
United State pacific coast ports
and reports from the Far East
indicated that no more vessels
flying the Japanese flag will be
seen in American ports for some
time as Japan has doubled the
war risk rates for marine insur
ance, effective August 8th, be
cause of increased dangers to
shipping.
Jap Moves In
Thailand Direct
Interest to British
LONDON. Aug. 6 (7P) — An
thony Eden declared in the
House of Commons that “any
thing which threatened the integ
rity or security of Thailand will
be of immediate interest to Brit
ain.” He said Britain is especial
ly interested because of the Jap
anese move on Thailand would
be "threatening the security of
Singapore and I hope that these
words may yet be heeded.”
He disclosed that Japan warn
ed that intervention in Thailand
would “give rise to a most ser
ious situation between Britain
and Japan.”
Eden and Major Attlee, govern
ment leader in the House of Com
mons. spoke on all phases of the
war from the Far East and the
conflict in Russia to the Battle
of the Atlantic .the United States
and in the air. pinchhitting for
Churchill, who was absent. It
was announced yesterday that
Churchill couldn’t take part in
the debate because Attlee said
he was too busy on “urgent mat
ters connected with the war.”
Attlee said Japan’s attention in
Thailand “bears an ominious re
semblance to that wfaich preced
ed the incunsion into Indo
china.
HOPKINS TELLS OF PATROLS
LONDON —The British people
•had assurance from Harry Hop
kins, President Roosevelt’s Lend
Leace coordinator, that American
and British ships in the north.
Atlantic are “patrolling on para
llel lanes with only one object
in view, to guard the world’s,
lifeiines.”
Hopkins' statement was broad
cast. He also pledged all possible
American aid immediately to
Russia and Ohina.
ICELAND AS SEEN FROM NAVY PLANE
This air view of the harbor of Akufeyri, second ity of Iceland, was released by the Navy Dep? rt
ment with the anouncment that it was made from a U. S. patrol plane, “a few days preceeding the
occupation of the island by American forces.
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