Daily Post - 09.12.1941, Blaðsíða 4

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ÍUULY tmt
Wlnter Brlngs Stop to
Major Operatlons
Along Russian Front
OFFICIAL
GERMAN
ADMISSION
London, Dec. 8th.
Germany at last officially ad-
mits that Nazi operations in
Russia are now at the mercy of
r /
the Russian winter.
Few details have come in
from the Russian front. Fight-
ing is going on all along the
line.
The “Pravda” claims further
Russian successes in the Mos-
cow area. stating that they have
regained complete control of
the Tula highway, the enemy
having abandoned tanks and
equipment in their retreat.
From southern Russia there
is no news to-day. hut it was
claimed by the Moscow Radio
last night that the Russians had
then penetrated 75 miles west
of Rostov, in puxsuit of the re-
treating Germans.
Italian soldiers are said to be
taking part in the fighting in
the Donetz Basin.
R.A.F. RAIDS
London, Dec. 8th.
A strong force of home-based
bombers raided north-west Ger-
many and ports in occupied
France last night. Aachen, the
important railway centre, was
the main target.
The harbours and dccks of
Ostend, Calais. Boulogne, Dun-
kirk, and Brest were also heavi-
ly raided. Four of our planes
are missing.
DAELY POST CROSSWORD
SOLUTION TO No 2.
Across. — 1. Damage; 4.
Cherub; 8. Bustle; 10. Blonde;
11. Expel; 12. Sour; 14. Bide;
15. Memorised; 17. Castanets;
20. Pail; 21. Halt; 22. Fount;
24. Darlan; 25. Gammon; 26.
Random; 27. Plinth.
Down. — 1. Debase; 2. Mu-
seum; 3. Gale; 5. Hull; 6. Ran-
cid; 7. Brewer; 9. Extortion; 10.
Beginning; 13. Regal; 14. Bérth;
16. Spider; 17. Citron; 18. Sal-
mon; 19. Stench; 22. Faro; 23.
Tall.
Libya
INCREASING
ALLIED
PRESSURE
London, Dec. 8th.
In Libya the force of our
drive is steadily increasing
over the whole area. The New
Z'ealand forces have again
linked up with the forces from
Tobruk near Sidi Rezegh.
The two main German panzer
groups are now engaged. Re-
ports have only come in about
one, which was being driven
westwards, attacked on three
sides.
NAZI TANKS SCUPPERED
On the 6th of December 30
enemy tanks and 500 motorised
vehicles were attacked west of*aJapan.
War With Japan
(Continued from page 1.)
self seems not to have been
raided, but raids have been
carried out on Baguio on Luzon
Island, and on Divao on Min-
danao, both impo.’tant military
objects, one on each of these
two main islands of the Philip-
pines.
DECLARATIONS OF WAR
Reaction to these dastardly
attacks has come quickly from
the Dominicns and our Allies,
and also from other nations,
apart from Britain and the
U5.A. Canada, the Netherlands
Government, the Chung-King
Govemment, the Free French,
Costa Rica, and Nicaragua have
all declared war against Japan.
Australia will declare war to-
morrow. And to-day both the
U.S.A. and Britain declared war
on Japan.
London, Dec. 8th.
In his address to the House of
Commons to-day the Prime
Minister, Mr. Churchill, stated
how and why the British Go-
vernment had dteclared war on
Bir el Gobi. Seven tanks were
destroyed, and 3 tanks and
many vehicles damaged, after
which the enemy retreated,
pursued by armoured cars of
the King’s Dragoon Guards,
who picked up 40 hungry Ger-
man stragglers. This is the first
time that Headquarters in
Cairo have 'mentioned the
names of the units taking part
in the action.
MOPPING UP
South of Tobruk and E1 Ad-
em small pockets of 'enemy
forces were successfully en-
gaged. The area between Sidi
Rezegh and Bir el Hamid is
now thought to be clear of ene-
my forces. At Sidi Rezegh our
troops found 18 modem Ger-
man tanks and equipment left
behind, and some of our own
guns were also recovered, by
the Eleventh Hussars.
Between Bardia and Tobruk
New Zealand and South Afric-
an forces are scouring the area
and rounding up stragglers, of
whom some 150 have been
brought in, many starving and
all hungry.
The battery reported yester-
day to have been wiped out be-
tween Sidi Rezegh and E1
Adem was not Italian but Ger-
He had agneed in a tailk iwith
President Rooseve'.t yiesterdaiy the
Piime Ministe? saád, that Britain’s
dec arat'on of iwar should follow
immediately after that of ,tbe U.
S. A. Meamwthiile Japan fmd att-
acfed Malaya. Therefone H. M.
Government had seen no need
of iwa’iting for the U. S. deCiar-
atioij and had aqoordingly issti-
ed a deciiaration of mair at 12,30
p. m. ;
London, Dec. 8th.
At a joint meeting of both
Houses this afternoon President
Roosevelt in a stirring spetech
called upon Congress to declare
war on Japan. The President
was cheerted to the rafters as he
finished his speech and until
long after he had left the rost-
rum after the declaration.
man. Ninety were killed, in-
cluding the battery comm-
ander.
AIR WARFARE
The R.A.F. communique re-
ports the bombing yesterday of
Khoms (east of Tripoli), Derna,
Benghazi. and Castle Benito.
Six enemy planes were shot
down. On Saturday night Na-
ples received the same treat-
ment as the previous night.
From all these operations 8
planes are missing.
Hitler’s Trump
(Continued from page 2.)
the Ohina war. This idea W»s
foijed by the raegnifioent Soviet
resástance against Genmany- To-
day the Red Army úi the
East is so stnong and so indep'
endem of tíie Western Pnont that
Japan has not yet dared attatí5
it. When the Japanese rea'isad
this and also realised that Brti*5*1
and 'American rnilitary strengdi
and mmth it their aid to Chma
Iwene .idkely to inonease rapkUj’
in the future, tbey deCided 50
thnomn in a'J their weight ag»'
inst Britain and America
before it is too date- Niaór, he*
cause . Amerioan industrial
sounoes and man-power are 100
yet fuily mobilised fior war. No«>
beoause e\ery avai!ai>ie g
and ðeropiane pnoduced in allied
fiaictories is urgently needed tó
tuirm the tide on the Rus^11
front- Noíw bpcause, Whie the
Russiaais ane fighting trith th^
backs to the Iwialll they hindeierj
fnom heiping their Chisnese 0110
Britásh a’Jies and the Burmai®3^
has Become the so.le or virtualil
the sole meains of supply
China.
| Battleground I
By Splke
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A large supply of BÚtlS^
boots has been issued to t
Turkish Army.
OLD SWEAT ASKS:—
Who started giving “Jerries
the Iron Cross?
Frederick William IH
Prussia began this gift scheU16
in 1813 for services in the ^ar
of Liberation. The order waS
revived at the time of t e
Franco-Prussian war ’
bushels of them issued in
last war too.
CURIOUS:—
Describe a nightmare?
Apart from reading George s
column, it is a feeling of °P
pression or suffocation wnl^
arises during sleep accompanl
by intense anxiety, fear .
horror. The sufferer wakens ,lT1
a state of terror, body often
covered with sweat. Psyc^°
analysts consider it the neS ^
of some suppressed emoti°n
experience stored in the s
conscious mind.