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Savage Nazi Attack on
Crimea Launched
Battleships Aid in
Befence of Leningrad
Arms Drive
for Russia
“Not a ComtortaUe
War:” Hr. Bevin
Russian Spokesman on
Time Factor
London, Sept. 26th.
The German assault on the Crimea started at midnight
0n Wednesday last. They began with heavy artillery fire
a°d then tanks and infantry attacked the Russian lines.
attack was smashed. The second attack was launched
af noon yesterday. Moscow reports say the Russians have
the situation well in hand.
Mr. Ernest Bevin, speaking
in London said thte last sixteen
months of effort had been
amazing.
It was impossible to reveal
all that had been accomplished,
but a nation less determined
would have been defeated in
the Battle of Britain, the Battle
of the Atlantic and in the
Middle East.
PRODUCTION DRIVE.
There are indioatiions that the
Germans are pneparing for an-
other wieekend of resounding
°Laims. They now claim that
T^ey have captuired 500,000 Russi'
ans at Kiev, a aonsiderably larger
bumber than they previously
claimed to have encircled. Mos-
®>w reports that fience fighting is
going on }n Kiev secton. In
Lmdon it is thought that the
®*ghting there has reached a
decisive stage.
ajong the fnont.
Rain is falling along the entine
^otit. In the Leningrad anea the
Russtans have beaten off German
attacks fnom three dinections and
^ave sucoeeded in moving for-
"’ard their lines at several points.
Neutral correspondents in
■^erlin say the_Germans are
^orried at the heavy shelling
0n their left flank by the two
battleships “Oktober Revolu-
tion” and “Marat.” In a broad-
°ast frcm Leningrad today it
^as stated that the heavy guns
ot these ships had inflicted en-
0rmous losses on the enemy.
Island attacks.
The Russians say that 15.000
^ermans have been wiped out
islands of Dagö and
A week ago the Nazis claimed
to have occupied these islands.
JOINT ACTION WITH RAF.
The Russian Air Force has
dealt forcible blows to the
enemy along the whole front.
In one sector British and Russi-
an fighters have in a few days
shot down 26 Nazi fighters in
aerial combat at the cost of one
Russian and one British fight-
er.
Rome radio reports that more.
Italian troops will be sent to
Russia, and reports from An-
kara state that Hitler Ras de-
manded 150.000 trcops from
the Bulgarian Government.
TIME FACTOR
The need foi’ hurry in deliveries
to Russia was stressed by a
Russian spokesman in Tehran
today. He stated that Britain had
immense supplies in the Middle
East and these oould quitökly be
sent to Russia through Iran. Hie
emphasised that speed is the
prime factor with a view to the
threat to Rostov. It the Germans
captured that town they would
do their utmost to out off oom-
munications with Cattoasus.
Russia, he said, had made a
brilliant and resolute—resi-
stance, but much of her pro-
ductive capacity had been
knocked out'and her transport
impeded. It would be difficult
for us to effect the transference
of our own production — but
we must make sacrifices. “We
must sustain a six to twelve
months drive, so as to enable
us to keep up a steady and in-
creasing flow of supplies of all
kinds to Russia” he said.
At the same time we must
equip our steadily increasing
army.
The phrase ‘It can’t be done’
must be banished from our
vocabulary for the rest of the
war.
“We eannot have a comfort-
able war,” he went on, “al-
though many people expect us
to give it them.”
ilavy Has “Downed’’
1,000 Enemjr Pianes
London, Sept. 26th.
It Was announced in London
to day that since the war broke
out and up to August lst more
than 1.000 enemy aircraft had
been destroyed by naval air-
craft and naval guns.
Greek
Fleet
Eseaped
Now In Actlon
With the Navy
London, Sept. 26th.
The Greek Prime Minister,
who is now in London
said today that no part of the
Gre'ek Navy had fallen into
enemy hands.
Twenty-five per cent of the
Nazi and 50% of the mefchant
navy had been sunk when the
army was brought away from
Greece, but the remainder was
pn active service with the Brit-
ish.
AIRMEN ESCAPE.
A large number of Greek air-
men had escaped to Egypt,
where they now were serving
with he RAF flying American
planes.
CLASHES WITH ITALIANS
The minister stated that
there were constant clashes in
Greece between the Italians
and the Germans. They could
not even eat together under the
same roof. The Germans there
were extremely badly equipped
and given to looting. The Ital-
ians were trying to ingratiate
themselves with the people but
had to maintain 14 divisions in
Greece.
BULGARIA.
Finally the Minister referred
to Bulgaria which, he said, had
not heen a belligerent but yet
given the' Germans full use of
her airfields in the campaign
against Greece. The Bulgarians
had then overrun two Greek
provinces and set adrift 60.000
Greek peasants.
A French court has condem-
ned two de Gaulle officers to
death. The same court previ-
ously had sentenced to death
six Free French officers.