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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1941
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ANOTHER U. S. SHIP HIT
Smashing Nazi Nests in South America
Charlie Chaplin Subpenaed by Senate
To Question Comedian on Propaganda
Reported Still British Subject Despite Fortune Made in America
By vavn a. schaeius
Washinicton, Bept. 13. (UP)— The Senata eommlttea invastigat- Inf alleted war propaganda in the movies today subpenaed Charlie Chaplin, tha master of pantomime whoas lateat pieture, "The Great Dictator," is a film the eommittee Is inclined to consider as "pro-war propaganda."
Chairman D. Worth Clark, D., Ida., telegraphed subpenaa to Lroa Angeles where they are to be served on Chaplin, Anatole Lit- vak. the Hungarian director ot "The Confessions of a Nasi Spy." snd William R. Wilkerson, pub- llaher of the Hollywood Reporter, a journsl that has been critical nf the committee's investigation. :7lark ssld that the committee nrishei to question these men on eharges that they had helped to disseminata propaganda designed to involve Ameriea in the eurrent I war. ChapUn mm a Brita*
Sen. Bennett C. CIsrk. D., Mo., ro-author wilh Sen. Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D., of the resolution author¬ ising sn Investigation of alleged "war propaganda" in movies, has told the rommittee that Chaplin is a British subject who has lived In America three decades without ap¬ plying for cltiienshp. Clark said that Chaplin had made a "great fortune here without caring enough ahout It to beeome a cltlsen."
The committee actually is con¬ sidering whether an Inquiry Into alleged subtle influence by way of the screen is worthwhile. However. this titge of the proceedings is be¬ ing made a full dress inquiry of ;he subject proposed by the reso- utlon. Kept Busy by Willkla
The committee's preoccupation during the first week of hesrings has been a stesdy bombsrdment of lUtements attacking the group by Wendell Willkie. who has been re¬ tained by the motion pieture in¬ dustry to represent it.
Winkle's two-a-day-or-more state¬ ments have kept committeemsn, all but one of them Isolationists, busy In rebuttsl. In the exchange there hss taken placs a vigoroua airing nf conflicting views of American foreign policy. The latest exchange wss  from  Nye.    Nye  ssld:
"No one is tsking Willkie too < seriously. The people know he Is I paid for what he is doing. Secondly, they know how effectively he de- stro.ved his effectiveness by con¬ fessing following the last cam¬ paign thst hla statements could not alwsys hs believed. No one is doing more lo fan the fires of antt- 9*mltlsm, which I deplore, than Mr. Willkie."
Reda Keep Their Suppliea from Nazia
German Landing Party Is Repelled at Red Naval Base
tke fMllwe af an MslMi aatal baea
¦taekhalm,  Bepfc  It.   (VP)—Tke  aewapai parta* tanigkt tkat tka Wawtat wama MmawMN •ttsmpted Oermaa aea hn'Mng at tka grcat •f Kroastadt.
Uw Newspaper ehdnied tkat tka Oaiiiiias attempted ta laa# •¦ tka BalMe base In etarm kaata am* ttet tma at tha baata wart nuak by Bussiaa flre, eaaslac keaejr Vaal caauattlaa.
Aaotker Bevtet radia tepart, saM AMoaMadat. said tkat tke Oarmaaa had hunehed aa attack aa tka BMiat-keM Island af Oaael all the Eatenlaa eaaat
Tke Germans were said ta kata etssssd orer ta tlM Islaad fram tke nearby Islaad of Maaa ami sf Hid a keavy attack an Oeeal bat tha Kaeelaas wara aaid ta ka keldiag out atroagiy.
A tkird Naal attack. tMa asM oa tke lalaad ot Ilacoe, was aaid to kaea beea attempted at tka laMia tlM heataa all.
Convoy Reaches Port from Epic Sea Fight of War
Britain Reports Loss of Eight Sliips After Attaclts by Nazi Subs, Planeg And Terrific North Atlantic Storm
By EOWAKD W. BEATTOB
L«ndon. Sept. 13. (UP)—Tha admiralty tonight ravaaled an epic of the aaa—tbe story of how a British Atlantic convoy fought itf way into home port through two Nasi aubmarine attaclts, bombing by long- range Nasi pianes, a atorm so fierce it sank a damaged ship and a threatened surface raider attack with the lose of eight ships, i.-eluding one from whieh thare was only a single survivor.
Ths date of the epic was aet revealed fey tke gdMtrallr beyond a a statement that the convoy's adventwrea aoenrred "Mma time age."
Hero  of   the  saga  was  Lieut-  .^— :	
Commander   O.   A.   Thring.   com
32 Suspects Arrested In Chile
Argentine Forcing Ambassador out; Uruguay Angry; Costa Rica Acts
U.S. LINES SQUEEZE OUT AXIS PLANES IN SOUTH
New York, Sspt. H. (UP)—Pan- American-Grace Airways disclosed todsy that the 11,500 miles of air¬ ways operated befors the war by German companies along the west coast of South America have been reduced to 70.
\ Pan-American routes, en the ether hand, have increased from 4,800 to soma 13,000 miles.
— Telephone Photo
Soviets retreating from Tallinn, In Batonia, according to German
caption accompanying picture, toppled thia train, leaded with their
military supplies, over 120-foot cliff.  The Germana said they left
the wreckage, ineluding dead hersoe, at the base.
Heights Boy Aiding Girl Dies in Fall from Horse
William A. Lynn Killed In Effort To Stop Runaway
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A New Serial Beyina Today
Matt Burgess was rescued from dangerous company on the Lisbon docks, but the fate ef being shanghaied could hardly hsve been worse than what he found at the hands of his' rescuer. She waa darkaklnned and gorgeous; shs was intclllKent; she was In love with Matt. But also she wss a spy, and money meant far more to her than the ideala Ihat wer* Impert¬ ant to Matt.
VVho Walks on Sand By Rita Hanaen
Head  the  first  Installment
teday In the 8CNDAV INDKPENDENT
A gallant attempt of a 17-year-old Wllkes-Barre high school youth to reseus a girl companion from a runaway horse at Hanover town¬ ship yesterday afternoon, reaulted in his death when the horse he was riding snsgged his forefeet in mire slong the. side of the river dikes st Iona Placs and threw him against rocks used for rip-rapping.
The victim is William A. Lynn, asnlor at GAR High School and son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Lynn of 134 South Meade street. The acci¬ dent occurred at 12:30 eclock and hs expired from a hemorhage of tbe brain two hours later in Home¬ opathic HospitsI. Went to Olrl's Beseuo
Lynn, accompanied by another youth and two girls, all members of the GAR "Boots and Saddles Club" rented horses from the Tosh Riding Academy at Fort Durkee Farm, Csrey avenua and Oxford street, and were riding but a short time when the fatality occurred. The two youths were riding on top of the dikes and the girls along ths bottom when the steed of one of the girls got out of control.
The Mesde street student noted her plight snd was urging his horse down the side of the dike bank to go to her assistsnce when the ani¬ msl bogged down and tripped. Thrown heavily, his hesd striking the rocks, Lynn was knocked un¬ conscious. Dr. John Cooper of Iona Place was summoned and he ordered removal to the hospital. Never Regained  Oonseieusness
Homeopathic Hospital attaches said that the youth failed to regain consciousness.
The victim was a popular mem¬ ber of the GAR High School or¬ chestra and band and was active in other scholastic eircles. He was a member of the Welsh Preaby¬ terlan Church of Meade street. In addition to his parents, a sister, Msrlan, at home, survives.
/ii Today'a luue
Classllled  !ZZ.~ B—15
Editorial    C-2
Movlea    A-l«
Politics   C-3
Radio    A—19
Hoelal    A—» 
SporU   "-1
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Third Battleahip Goea in Sept, 23
Washington, Sept. IS. (UP)- The Navy announced tonight thst the new 3jl,000-ton battleship USS Massachusetts will be launch¬ ed Sept. 23 at tha Bethlehem Steel Company's yard In Quincy, Mass.
The big $75,000,000 dreadnaught. carrying a main battery of nine 16-Inch guns mounted In three turrets as well as latest anti- guns, will be similar to tha aircraft and secondary broadside recently-built S5,000-ton V. 8. Wsshlngton and North Carolina.
These are the flrst battleships ef their class In th'e current . building program and are reputed to be the most potent In the world.
AXIS TRANSPORTS HIT IN MEDITERRANEAN
Cairo, Sept IS. (UP)—The Royal Air Force reported tonight that at least three and possibly four Axis trsnsports have been heavily damaged or sunk in a big British air attack upon a Mediterranean convoy.
(In London the Netherlands ad¬ miralty reported that a Dutch sub¬ marine in the Mediterranean has sunk a heavily laden Axis supply ship of about 6,000 tons.)
The attack occurred In the Central Mediterranean, the RAF reported, atarting Thursday night and  continuing  through   Friday.
The Axis convoy, said the RAF, comprised six large and two medium merchant ships, protected by six destcoyers. The fleet air arm started the attack at night, sending torpedoes Into two large merchant   ships,  the  RAF  said.
Sicily, Benghaai Bombed by British
Rome, Sept. 13. (UP)—The Italian high command today reported new British air attacks on the area around Catania, Sicily, snd the big Axis Libya base at Benghasi.
The Csntania attack. It was said, caused no casualties or damage but that at Benghaai damaged civilian dwellings in the Arab quarter.
SNOW IN LENINGRAD
New York, Sept. 13 (UP)—The first snow fell in the Leningrad area today. Radio London, heard hy the United Press listening post, reported tonight.
•at-tluHyHon sloop Dept- ford, senior escort vessel, who led his wallowing chargea threugh at¬ tack after attack.
At one point he cleared his tiny warship, armsd only with six four- Inch guns, anti-aircraft weapons and maehine guns, for action against a big Nasi surface raider which probably outweighed and outgunned him 10 to 30 times over. The raider, believed to be just over the horison, never appeared. Bittereat Fight ef War
The convoy's battle to reach har¬ bor, as dsseribed by the admiralty, waa one of ths bitterest since the start of the Battle of the Atlantic. The admiralty said that three ships were lost by submarine attack and and five by repeated attacks of long-range Luftwaffe bombers.
While the sdmiralty did not rs- veal the dste of the sttack, it was learned authoriutively that it oc¬ curred soms tims ago. Tbe battle began far out in the Atlantic with
a submarine attack in.which twe ships of the convey were torpedoed and sunk within a few minutes.
Tbe 1,473-ton freighter Branden¬ burg, the admiralty said, immedi- atsly hauled out of the convoy line and went to the rescue of the crews picking up nearly all tha men from ons ef the torpedoed ships. The MO-ten sloop Deptford lowered a boat and rescued the crew of the seeend ship while the sloop itself went after the U-boat.
Tha convoy continued on and 12 heura later six four-engined long- range Oerman bombers swopped down. The escort ships and armsd merchant ahips hurled up a fierce barrage at the Foeke-Wulf Con¬ dors but the Germans pressed heme their attack, sinking a mer¬ chant ship outright snd hitting two othsrs ao badly that they. soon sank. Beseuo  lender Guard
"nie engine room of a merchant
'  (Continued on Page A-13i
By W. W. COPELAND
Buenoa Aires, Sept. 13. (UP> — Four Latin-American countries were moving rapidly tonight to smash Nasi Influence within their borders.
The two major weapons employ¬ ed were criminal prosecution, as In Chile, and diplomatic maneuver¬ ings as in Argentina and Costs Rlcs. In Uruguay, congressional action was urged sgslnst alleged Nazi  plotters.
Ths Argentine Chamber of Depu¬ ties was preparing te pass a reso¬ lution Monday declaring Baron Edmund von Thermann, tbe Ger¬ man ambassador, persona, non graU, which, it Is believed, would Inevitably lead te hU withdrawal. AifMl SI SifgiW
Argaatiaa'a pendlag rebuke te aermaay eeiaelded with theae de- velepamMs:
1.—Ckllaan police aad judicial authorities, in a drive againat sus¬ pected German and other pro-Nasi
STRUCK BY BOMBS IN RAID ON SUEZ
SS Arkanaan Damaged by Planea On Night Preaident Rooaevelt Spoke; Waa Carrying Suppiiea to Alliea; Booating American War Output Chief Problem Now Facing Leadera
WMhiiifftoii, Sept. 13 (UP)—The SUtc DepuiawBt aa* nounced late today that another American freighter, the SS Arkanaan, has been hit by bomba in the Red Sea area and has been damaged.
The diapatcheg mentioned no casualties aboard tha Arkanaan, the State Department said, but many additional details of the incident, which occurred in the Egyptian port of Suez during a heavy air raid, the night of Sept. 11, ara lacking.
(Lloyd's register of shipping lists a 6,997-ton Arkansan built in 1921 in Shanghai and owned by  the American- Hawaiian Steamship Company.  The ship's port of registry was given as New \ork.) Hit During Air Raid
The Arkansas, like the Steel Seafarer which was sunk by bombs at the entrance of the Gulf of Suez the night of Sept. 6 was an American flagship and was presumed to be carrying materials to the Allied forces in the Middle East. The Arkansan Mas owned by the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company of San Francisco and New York.
The official State Department language describing the incident was that the ves.'el was "reported to have been hit
by shell fragments and some plates*	
pierced  In a heavy air raid '^"l^tttcUytntt, of the U. S. Atlantle °^"- ! patrol In carrying out its shoot-on*
Ths   use   of   the   phrase     shell gj^ht orders against any AxU in. fragments'' wss questioned by cor¬ respondents hsre. A State Depart¬ ment   afficlal  said   thU   waa   t|ie
terloper. Some time will be r«fulra«. il-'.:..^^ ..;i.i I. tk. ." --^ fv^ *••  •aptalaed.   te  traaafena.
the American legatla* ab Caink ¦H imille Preeideat Mpeke
The attaelt oeeurred the same evening that President Roosevelt delivered his historic radio address in   whirh   he   announced   that   hr
temtias patrol late fereaa u fenet eut aubmariaea aad surface ral4en. Mr. Roosevelt, it waa understood, was keeping tn close touch with the Navy and State Departmenta as  he  ssiled   in   splendid  autumn
elemenU.^ arrested   S2 ^persons   i^n bad   ordered   the   Navy   to   shoot | weather In the  presidential yacht
Axis wsrcraft Interfering on Amer- j Potomac,  now  painted  a  wartime ican defense routes on sight.   Due i gray.
to  the  time  differential,  however.     .. -..„„.j ,u.t k.   .4
the •'';•'- over sues would h.>.^ • ;
hr««r.l   hour. "'P'   •"  •   "•»"•   "y   '»«•   Sff   J5«-
Th! rl?rn d^Xtrh  however  wa J »*''"»•"'   '"¦'    f"*   '""-O   »"««'
noT's'ent'by l'riHUr>'°:xVeVt -" iS?eT,e.'fa'er*bomb:S     "d"""',: he might have used the term "'heU f'*''/''"'%"- J'°"'hed  snd sunk fragments-   as   synonymous   w'tW 'Vh * f.H -d!^ » I'^f^'' •«» •bomb    fragments."    He    !>«"'''»>'^f^^i'-^'^ r'"""*'' '*'• •""'''»¦ could    have    referred    to   the »^P'""* " G«™'«" splinters  of an  aerial torpedo.   It, "ere War Produetien EsaenUal was   possible  that  he  referred   to]    The   President's   attention,   how- fragments from anti-aircraft shells I ever,   wss   centered   on   means   ef fired   by   the   defenders   although stepping  up  war  production.    He experts   here   said   apent   shrapnel | wa.^  aaid  to be  very much  aware would  not  be   likely   to   pierce   a that the arms production program shjp's plates. is    not    thoroughly    satisfactory;
WAVES OF PLANES
LENMLINES
Nazis also Try to    ^ Pinch off Reds Defending Kiev
By OLENN M. STADLEB
Berlin, Sept. 18. (UP)-Nasl re¬ ports claimed tonight that the LAiftwaffe has enveloped Lenin¬ grad's defenses In a "hurricane of flre" and hinted that huge new "pockets" of Soviet forces may be building up in the Kiev-Konotop- Kharlcov triangle in a sledge-ham¬ mer German advance toward the rich   industrial  basin   of  the   Don.
Germsn sources indicated that msny Russian lines sround lenin¬ grsd were literslly crushed under the terrific weight of the NssI bombing sttsck—spparently one of the biggest air operations under¬ taken since the Eastern Front wss opened up.
The hign command, adhering to Its policv of reticence, merely ssld thst     offensive     operstions     are progressing successfully. Claim «»,0«0 Prisoners .V
Germsn quarters claimed that In the past week's fighting 85,000 Russisn prisoners have been cap¬ tured, SOO Russian tsnks hava been destroyed and several hundred planes  brought  down.
A propagsnda company dispatch reported that a powerful German thrust has been made southeast from Roslavl toward Bryansk which caused the Russians to ru.ih all available planes, troops and tanks to defend the line of the Desna River. The battle In this (Continued on Page A-13)
12-DIVISiON DRIVE
BROKENJAY REDS
Claim Transport, Patrol Boat Zmk; Bucharest Bombed
By HENBT BHAPIBO
Moscow, Sept IS. (UP)—Front¬ line dispatches reported tonight ttaat tbe Red Army has crushed a 12-division Nasi attack on Bryansk, 220 miles southwest of Moscow, and has smashed four more Ger¬ man divisions attempting to assault Kiev.
Defeating the German attempt to capture Bryansk, the Soviet forces wers said to have pushed forward recapturing 26 cities and towns from ths Germans, killing at least 10,000 Nasi troops and forcing them into a retreat which has not yet halted.
The latest Soviet communique reported that torpedo-boats of the northern fleet bad sunk a Gsrmsn patrol boat and a big transport and said that Soviet planes had auc¬ cessfully bombed Bucharest Satur¬ day night. It said stubborn fight¬ ing continued throughout Saturday.
The communique reported 50 German planes destroyed during Thursdsy and said the Russians lost 84.
Tomorrow is ths 129th annivsr- sary of Napoleon's entry into Mos¬ cow on Sept. 14, 1812, Just SS days after ths start of his campaign. Tomorrow Is the 87th day of Adolf Hitler's sttack on Russia and he still is approximately 200 miles awav from his prime objective. Terrifle Air Battles
Reports from Leningrad describ¬ ed terrific air battlea in which  10 (Continued on Page A-13)
three   widely   separated   areas   of the republic.
3.-Deputy Temas Brena of the Uruguayan CHiamber of Deputies, chairman of the congressionsi com¬ mittee that investigated and bared a subversive Nazi plot last year, asserted thst the Nazi movement continues, underground, and de¬ manded the establishment of a per¬ manent parliamentary committee to investigate and curb such move¬ ments.
8.—Costa Rica withdrew all Its consular officials from Germany and German-occupied territories after protesting to Germany, can¬ celled suthoriMtion of German consuls, snd made known thai It will not accept sny German dip¬ lomatic or consulsr "gestures" emanating from Guatemala City, the headquarters of Otto Riene- bekr, Germsn minister to the Centrsi American countries. Wiedemann Stays Away
4.—Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, for¬ mer Orman consul-general at San Francisco, Calif., who srrived at Rio de Jsnelro several days ago. (oatensibly en route to assume, a consular post in Jspanese-occupled China) cancelled his scheduled de¬ parture for BuenoK Aires after the Taborda congressional committee investigating anti-Argentine activ¬ ities announced that it would sum¬ mon him for questioning.
The two most recent sessions of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies (Continued on Page A-13>
The offlcial report did not men¬ tion the nationality of the attack¬ ing planes. Earlier in the after¬ noon   the   State   Department   an
that his advisers feel there has been too much super-imposing pro¬ grams one on another, and that new arms orders must go to firms
nounced receipt of affidavits from; which   never  have  made  weapons Port   Said   that   the   plane   that j before.
bombed   the   Steel   Seafarer   was     Furthermore.   It   was   said,   Mr. *^'"'"""" . Roosevelt may be studying ths rs-
Test of U. S. Patrol at Hand ported recommendation thst hs re-
News  of   this   latest   attack   on define   the   authority   of   Director American    shipping    came    while General William S. Knudsen of the
President Roosevelt was cruising on Chesapeake Bay with his chief war production aides. While they worked on plans to speed the flow of armamentM to the anti-Axis arsenal the American Navy made dispositions  to  purge  Atisntic  dC'
Office of Production Management to enable Knudsen to take ths ini¬ tiative in a greater spread of eon- tracts.
Theae matters, It was presumed, would be taken up with Knudsen, Floyd Odium, hesd of ths new de¬
fense   routes   of  raiding  warcraft. fen,, contract distribution serviee: The next three or four days. In- Price Control Chief Leon  Hender-
formed  quarters   predicted,   should bring   some   indication   as   to   ths
War  ISummarj
Adolf Hitler lost his race against Napoleon's Moscow timetable Sat- urdav night. His armiea were deep in   Russia,   fighting   hard   against
son. and Lend-Lease Chief Harry L. Hopkin.i. Those men were aboard the Potomac as was Hopkins' daughter, Diana. Identify Plane aa Nasi Testimony that the plans that It still was not clear whether thejJl.o'n'^d 'he Steel Seafarer was Russians were strong enough in thet^*'''"*" «'•» taken by the Ameri- center to endanger German olfen-! ^»n vice-consul at Port Sua from sives   both   in   the  Leningrad   and Third  Offlcer Joseph  M.  C.  Suka,
Soviet  resiatance,  in  the  occupied! Gomel areas and bring th. «•"".! i ;,\''°"««'''«vit  concurred   with
countries to the rear thers was a Nazi advances to a halt. The Brit swelling wave of resistance, and in I Iah expressed some concern over the Atlantic a new phsse of the I the situation, pointing out that battle of the sealsnes was opening, their plans for the Middle East The Russian pieture was mixed, {hinge on developments on the East- A new, dangerous German offensive j ern Front.
seemed to be in the making south-     If the Germans can develop their east of Gomel,  with Kharkov,  the i threats to I.,eningrad and the Don
similar dorument signed by Mas¬ ter D.  Hallidsy.
After looking at silhouettes ef Italian and German planes, Suka ssid:
"I firmly beiievs that the plane I saw was most probably a Junkers 88, or at any rate a German plane
riches of the great Don Industrial area, the Nazis may be able to pull     g,,k. tnM nV .^nrtr„l h«i.<. »!..
large numbers of troops out of c.nt.i!. x!h.„ h. h..*,,l^ !i.-I Russia, shifting them either ^olZ^^^^'-\^'"^*X'ntt,*^ Libya to face a likely British at- ;^,".Yj," •PP'"*'^'' »•» ">• "t*" tack or to open up a new front in Turkey—or both. .More Sinkings (lainied
The offlcial German "e"^" ««^";y  ,ee the   plane's  exhaust  sparklinc l'li'::rA»L»'=!ir,.l?'° .f/'«rlt was « twm-motored plsne, ve^
basin and flsnklng of the southern Dnieper defense lines as its ap¬ parent objective.
To the north the Nazi Luftwaffe waa going sll out against the powerful Russian defense lines, turning fhe area according to Ger¬ man   accounts   Into   a   "hurricane
"The moon was full and directly overhead," Suka said. "The rlai- bitlty was   perfect.    I  could  even
of flre"  In  a desperate attempt  '.o,hipping has been sunk in the past,, built with a snub
blast a path into the strongly pro-1 week  and   the  high   command  re-  '"»'    »?„„!,'' ..J„„rf. .»,„ »i.. ..ected   aecond   city   of  the   Soviet.        ted   that   four   more   merchant,-;'.  A^'l^'^™--^^^^^^^^ New RuMilan AHaek |sh.ps and  three escort ships ht^t      ^y„,^j explosion  <one or mere
It waa on the center that Rus-1 been sunk in a big «"*J,''.»"" words omitted in tranamiasien) to sian hopes appeared to be pinned. North Atlantic roinoy, ""t re-]^^ ^^ ^^ ^^,^^ ^^^ waterline. Marahal Semyon TImoshenko has ported yesterds.v.bringmg the total ..^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^ been waging a counter-offensive In In that action to =« ";"';'?""l "^'P» I other explosion which appeared ta that region for nearly a month, of 164.000 tons, plus the escort . , ,j^j,, ,^^j^^ than the flrat smashing back the Germana to the ships. (Continued on Psce A-13)
environs of Smolensk in an attempt I    Trouble  was  reported  in  almost j •
to gain sufficient momentum toj all the occupied countries of Europe. force the Germans to pull some Budspest reported 398 persons of their units back from the Lenin-  killed in a single Jugoslav town by
grad front and  relax tho pressure on the Red Army of the north
guerillas. In the Middle East three or four
Today came reports of new Axis transports were reported sunk Soviet blows at the southern end or badly damaged In persistent of tbe Smolensk-Gomel sector.        I RAF attacks.
Diapatchea trom Euro¬ pean countriea are now tubjeet   to   cenaorahlp.