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occupied Krivoy Rog and fought southeast from the Uman sector and threatened Dniepropetrovsk at the bend of the Dnieper. Each of these columns has gained 150 miles in the last week and one has gained 180 miles, Berlin said, adding that the Russians were being encircled. battered by shells and pursued by air as they sought to evacuate Odessa or cross the Dnieper to set up a new defense line. Italian forces are with the Germans. Rome reported Axis forces had taken Ochakov and Kinburn on the Black Sea. -In Paris the police offered a reward of 1,000,000 francs for information leading to the arrest of railway saboteurs who were said to have endangered the city's food supply.

-The Finns reported capture of the railroad town of Sortavala on Lake Ladoga, while German columns are fighting northward on both sides of Lake Peipus.

-Russia and the Polish Government in Exile,
restored diplomatic relations.

-President Roosevelt signed a bill authorizing the
deferment of prospective draftees who were 28
or more years old last July 1.
Aug. 17-The Russian communique said: "Our
troops continued fierce fighting against the enemy
along the entire front. After stubborn battles our
troops evacuated the towns of Nikolaev and
Krivoy Rog. At Nikolaev dockyards were blown
up. The Berlin bulletin said: "German troops in
co-operation with Hungarian units in the south
Ukraine took the large industrial city of Nikolaev,
which also is important as a fleet base." German
planes report sinkings of Russian ships loaded
with fugitives from the Ukraine.
-The merchant ship Sessa, of Panama registry,
was torpedoed and sank in deep twilight" by
an unidentified submarine about 300 miles from
Reykjavik, Iceland, on the ship's way from New
York to that port; 3 of the crew of 27 were
rescued.

the Gomel sector 78,000 prisoners were claimed. also 144 tanks, 700 cannon and two armored trains. In addition to Odessa, Russian forces are trapped in Tallinn, capital of Estonia, and on Lake Ladoga, according to D. N. B. The Russian communique said: "Our troops waged stubborn battles with the enemy in the directions of Kingisepp, Novgorod, Staraya Russa, Gomel and Odessa.

-A German bombing plane was heard high over Iceland. It was chased away by British aircraft before it got within bombing range. It was stated on official authority that American airmen did not take off and that aircraft batteries of the United States forces stationed there were silent throughout the alarm.

Aug. 21-The Berlin bulletin said that in the Southern Ukraine German forces took the harbor and industrial towns of Kherson on the mouth of the Dnieper River; between Lakes Ilmen and Peipus the cities of Novgorod, Kingisepp and Narv were taken; and "air force units inflicted severe losses upon Soviet troops retreating across the sea from Odessa and Ochakov, as well as upon enemy columns fleeing eastward in the Dnieper bend. In the black Sea they sank a 6,000-ton transport." The Russian communique said that "after heavy fighting our troops evacuated Gomel." The 1,500-mile front from which the Germans were attacking runs in a jagged line from Narwa, below Leningrad at the Estonian border, to Kherson, near the Black Sea at the mouth of the Dnieper.

-A broadcast appeal to the population to organize civilian defense groups and fight to the last to save Leningrad from German occupation was made by Marshal Klementi Voroshiloff, commander of the Soviet Northwestern Army; A. A. Zhdanov, Communist leader of the Leningrad area, and P. Popkov, chairman of the Leningrad City Soviet. The German forces at some points are within 60 miles of the place.

-London announced 17,000 tons of Axis shipping-In in the Mediterranean had been sunk by air attacks within 48 hours.

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-The President, who had landed from the Potomac
at Rockport, Me.. after his meeting
Churchill, arrived at the White House.
Aug. 18-German troops advancing on both sides
of Lake Peipus joined forces at Narwa, on the
Estonian frontier. Narwa is 15 miles west of
Kingisepp, evacuation of which was announced
by the Soviet Army. Finnish forces storming
down the west shore of Lake Ladoga toward
Leningrad and a union with Germans driving
on the city from the south have captured
Kurkijoki, a lake town 95 miles north of the
capital, the High Command announced.
-Prime Minister Churchill returned to England on
the battleship Prince of Wales after his con-
ference with President Roosevelt. On the way
home he stopped in Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug. 16.
and was cheered by the natives. Ensign F. D.
Roosevelt, Jr., accompanied him.

Aug. 19-The Berlin communique said Odessa was
under siege of Axis forces (German, Rumanian,
Hungarian, Italian); that all of the Ukraine
west of the Dnieper had been taken by Hitler's
troops; that in the Odessa harbor nine troop
transports and three of the Russian warships,
including a heavy cruiser, had been damaged;
and that in the war port of Nikolaev there fell
into German hands "a battleship of 35.000 tons.
a cruiser of 10,000 tons, four destroyers and two
submarines. In addition, one gunboat was sunk
and another one severely damaged and a floating
dock captured laden with railway engines." Also
were taken 60,000 prisoners. Moscow said fight-
ing still was "especially stubborn" in
Kingisepp. Novgorod, Gomel and Odessa di-
rections.

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-The British Admiralty reported that since the war began, 4,007,000 tons of enemy shipping had been lost; total tonnage to Aug. 16, German, 2,321,000; Italian, 1,533,000; Finnish, 34,000; useful to the enemy, 119,000. Total loss from June 10 to Aug. 16, German, 433,000; Italian, 294,000: Finnish, 34,000; useful to the enemy, 35,000; a total of 796,000 tons. These figures include ships sunk by air attack and 51 ships estimated at 200,000 tons, reported sunk by Soviet forces.

occupied Paris, an officer of the German army staff was stabbed to death in the subway. The slaying followed the recent demonstrations attributed to Communists, and the mass arrests of Jews, Communists and de Gaullists in the workers' sections. Lieut. Gen. von Schaumburg gave notice that from Aug. 23 all French held in State arrest by the German authorities in France or arrested for them would be held as hostages, and that in case of a new criminal act, would be shot. The order was followed by a roundup of 6,000 or more Jews.

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Aug. 22-In Leningrad, in response to the appeal for home guards, the citizens were reported to have begun the erection of street barricades. Veterans of the Bolshevist revolution gave instructions in bayonet and barricade fighting. Men marched out of the city to fight as guerrillas. Meantime, the Finnish High Command announced the capture of the rail center of Kaekisalmi, 75 miles north of Leningrad, and said Finnish forces were driving on to Kiviniemi, a point in the former Mannerheim Line, 50 miles from the city.

-South of Leningrad and east of Gomel, on the central front, the Russians admitted having yielded Nikopol, on the Dnieper River, 50 miles east of Krivoy Rog.

-An Executive Order was issued in Washington extending to the full 18 months authorized by law the military service of all selectees and members of the Army and National Guard, except those past 28 years old, those whose dependents would suffer unduly and those who could be spared.

Aug. 23-Berlin said Dniepropetrovsk had been
taken by German forces. The Nazis also reported
fighting near Gatchina, 26 miles south of Lenin-
grad, which is raided daily by Axis planes.
Marshal Voroshilov broadcast a second appeal
for civilian defense of Leningrad which he said
was in "terrible danger,"

-Marshal Petain set up military courts in France
to try sabotage cases with power to impose death
sentences.
-The Duke of Kent, youngest brother of King
George, arrived at Hyde Park, N. Y., from
Canada, for a week-end visit to President
Roosevelt.

-British planes bombed Tripoli in Africa.

British-Allied ship losses in 1941 are reported as (gross tons)-Jan., 288,088: Feb., 339,062; March, 501,388: April, 597.193; May. 504,272; June, 366,474; and July, 210,073. Aug. 24-Berlin reported having sunk 21 (122,000 gross tons) merchant ships and three convoying war vessels which were traveling from England toward Gibraltar; eight of the convoy escaped into Portuguese waters, the bulletin said. In-Lisbon, Portugal. reported the arrival of 13 ships

-In France, the Chief of State, Marshal Henri-The
Petain, went to Royat and heard the oath of
allegiance given to him personally by the mem-
bers of the Council of State.
Aug. 20-A Berlin communique announced that a
drive of "total annihilation" against the Russian
Army in the Ukraine had smashed 25 Soviet
divisions in the Gomel (White Russia) area, 125
miles north of Kiev and increased Russian losses
to about 5.000.000 men in 60 days of struggle.

from a convoy that had been attacked three days ago.

-The British Admiralty announced the loss of the submarine Union, the 29th British submarine lost since the war began.

-German forces took the city of Luga, on the route to Leningrad.

and harmonious collaboration by all the peoples of the European Continent in the political as well as in the economic and cultural spheres.' -A special Berlin army bulletin stated that after capturing, on Aug. 28, the Estonian capital, Tallinn, the naval harbor of Peldiski (Baltic port) also was taken, and 19 troop transports, one destroyer and nine other vessels were sunk: also German planes sank three Soviet transports in the Gulf of Finland.

-In Iran, the joint British-Russian advance on
Teheran continued, despite flags of truce.

Aug. 25-Iran (Persia) having formally refused to expel Germans, technicians mostly, who were alleged by Britain and Russia to be using "fifth column" means of peaceful invasion and control, British and Soviet forces invaded the country. London announced a landing at Bandar Mashur-Acting Attorney General Biddle held, the State (Bandar Shahpur), on the Persian Gulf, with a mixed force of British and Indian troops. Others crossed in by the Iraq border. A broadcast from Teheran, the capital, said that Iran was taking all defensive measures, and the Iranian Minister in Washington declared that the Anglo-Soviet complaint of Nazi infiltration was only the pretext for an attack. -Moscow announced that "after tenacious fighting Our troops left Novgorod," but "stubbornly fought the enemy along the whole front." -The Finnish communique said: "The islands off Virolanti have been occupied. An enemy transport vessel of 5,000 tons was sunk by artillery fire. The ship was loaded with tractors and guns, and the deck was crowded with soldiers." -The city of Dniepropetrovsk, in the Ukraine, on the Dnieper River, was stormed by motorized German units of the tank army under Col. Gen. Paul Ludwig von Kleist. Thus all Russian troops still west of the Dnieper in the Southern Ukraine were cut off from land avenues of retreat to the east, it was announced in a special report from Hitler's field headquarters.

Aug. 26-In Iran, British (India) air-borne troops seized the port of Bandar Mashur, and with it seven Axis ships. Abadan, oil refining center near Bandar Mashur, was taken by the same column. The forces that pushed into the country from the north took the oil installations at Naft-i-Shah and Kasr-i-Shirin, London said.

-The destroyer Bath, 1,060 tons, formerly the U. S. destroyer Hopewell, has been sunk, according to an announcement by the Commander in Chief of the Norwegian Navy, whose officers and men manned the vessel. The Bath is the first former U. S. destroyer sunk on active service with the Allies.

Aug. 27-The City of Tallinn, capital of Estonia,
on the Gulf of Finland, 50 miles across from
Helsinki, was reported on fire as German and
Finnish forces closed in on it. The Soviet radio
said: Not only Tallinn but all Estonia is burning.
There is not even a sack of oats left. All shale
and oil plants have been destroyed. The counter-
revolutionaries and friends of Germany have
been liquidated." A Finnish air communique
reported that the Russians were being forced out
of Viipuri (Viborg) on the Karelian Isthmus,
one of the gateways to Leningrad, by Finnish
bombings. Viipuri, largest city on the isthmus,
was lost to Finland in the 1939-40 war with
Russia.

-The Iranian Cabinet resigned. British and
Russian invading forces moved ahead-the Rus-
sians from the Caucasus southward along the
shore of the Caspian Sea and the British north-
ward from the Persian Gulf and eastward from
Iraq.
-Berlin said that the lower Dnieper had been
crossed. Zaporozhe captured and the Leningrad-
Moscow railway cut.

Aug. 28-Moscow officially announced that the dam
on the Dnieper River, one of the largest in the
world, had been blasted and the machinery in
the hyrdo-electric plant destroyed, to prevent the
$110,000,000 enterprise from being operated by
German troops. The dam was situated near
Zaporozhe, 50 miles south of the industrial city
of Dniepropetrovsk in an area where the German
forces are now entrenched.

-Resignation of the Iran Cabinet was followed by an order to stop firing on British and Russian forces. Ali Faranghi heads the new government. -Vice President Wallace has been put at the head of a newly created seven-man supply priorities and allocation board.

Aug. 29-In announcing the conclusion on the Russian battlefront of a five-day conference on the fate and future of Europe, Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini, in a joint statement said: The conversations were permeated by the unalterable determination of both peoples and their leaders to continue the war to a victorious conclusion. The new European order that will emerge from this victory as far as possible will remove the causes that in the past have given rise to European wars. The destruction of the Bolshevist danger and plutocratic exploitation will create the possibility of fruitful, peaceful

Department announced, that the President's proclamation of Nov. 4, 1939, and subsequent proclamations, declaring the United Kingdom and certain parts of the British Empire to be at war, applies only to England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the five parts of the empire named, and not to other "overseas terriAug. 30-The Finnish High Command announced tories and possessions of the British Empire." the capture of the city of Viborg. The Russians were said to have laid waste the city before retiring. -Moscow said that Marshal Budenny's army had escaped encirclement in the Dnieper bend and that some units were recrossing the river to attack. Odessa was holding out and there were counter-assaults in the central sector, near Smolensk.

-In Vichy, Marshal Petain opened the French Legion to volunteers to work for the "national revolution."

Aug. 31-In Russia, Leningrad and Odessa reported they were still holding out against Axis attacks, Soviet troops were still fighting the enemy "along the entire front," Moscow said. -In Iran, London stated "small token forces of Iranian troops are being permitted to remain in Kermanshah under the Iranian flag. Otherwise Iranian forces are withdrawing from the oil areas in accordance with agreements reached between British and local commanders." Reprisal air attacks go on daily in Eastern Africa, Egypt, Suez, the Mediterranean, the Channel, the Baltic and all Axis coasts, Germany, the British Isles and Occupied France.

1941-SEPTEMBER

Sept. 1-Soviet planes raided Berlin, Koenigsberg,
Danzig and Memel. British planes attacked
Essen, Cologne and Boulogne.

-The London Economist, a newspaper, estimates
that German planes have destroyed property in
Great Britain valued at $480,000,000,

-At Manila, in addition to the Philippine Army Air Corps, 20,000 reservists were incorporated into the U. S. Army.

Sept. 2-Berlin reported that German spearheads advancing toward Leningrad had arrived at Krasnoe Selo, 20 miles to the southwest.

A British plane that had been ferried across the Atlantic from Canada, crashed on the "United Kingdom's West Coast," killing the ten persons aboard, including Capt. Sherwood Picking of the U. S. Navy, and Flight Engineer C. A. Spence, also an American, and Count Guy de BailletLatour, a Belgian. The rest were Britons, and Canadians, among them Dr. Mark Benjamin of the Central Scientific Office in Washington, and Prof. Robert B. Mowat of the British Library of Information in New York City.

Sept. 3-Helsinki officially reported that Russian
troops fighting on the Karelian Isthmus had
been "decisively beaten" and that Finland had
regained all the soil lost to the Soviet in the
1939-40 war. Dispatches from the front an-
nounced the capture of Kivennapa, 71⁄2 miles
from the old Russian border and 28 miles north
of Leningrad.

Sept. 4-The Navy Department in Washington
announced that "The U. S. Destroyer Greer, en
route to Iceland with mail, reported that a
submarine had attacked her by firing torpedoes
which missed their mark. The Greer immediately
counter-attacked with depth charges. Results are
not known." The destroyer was under charge of
Lieut. Commander Laurence H. Frost, 39.
-The first U. S. tanker carrying aviation gasoline
to Russia has arrived at Vladivostok.
British headquarters at Simla, India, said that
Imperial troops had "advanced some 400 miles
into Western Iran and about 200 miles into the
southwestern part of the country. We now hold
the important spheres of influence, including the
main oil-producing zones and also the main
roads leading from Iran toward the Caucasus.'
-Moscow said that fighting was still going on
"along the entire front" and that "the Germans
sustained heavy losses while attempting to cross

the Dnieper River in one sector in a south-
western direction of the front."
-The communique from Hitler's field headquarters
said the German "navy and air force in the
fight against British supply shipping sank 537,200
tons of enemy merchant shipping space in
August, 1941," and 13,088,283 tons in two years
of war.

Sept. 5-A British Admiralty communique said:
"A large southbound liner has been torpedoed
and almost certainly sunk by one of our sub-
marines off the coast of Italy. This ship was
possibly the Duilio of 23,635 tons."
-The Soviet Information Bureau, Moscow, an-
nounced Russian troops "fought the enemy along
the entire (1,800-mile) front."

-The United States freighter, Steel Seafarer, was
sunk by a bombing plane in the Red Sea, at the
entrance to the Gulf of Suez. Members of the
crew were rescued by British ships.
Sept. 6-A German official communique said it
was the U. 8. Destroyer Greer and not the
German submarine which did the attacking Sept.
4 southwest of Iceland, and that the resultant
firing by the U-boat was in justified defense."
-In Paris, the Germans executed three of the
alleged Communist hostages in reprisal for the
wounding of a German sergeant Sept. 5.
-London reported the sinking, off Tripoli, by a
British submarine, of the Italian liner, Esperia,
11,398 tons.

Sept. 7-A decree of the Soviet Supreme Council
ordered the removal of the German population
of the Volga region (382,000) settled by Germans
in the 18th Century in the reign of Catherine
the Great. Resettled Germans will be given
land in the Novosibirsk and Omsk districts, the
Altai region of the Kazakstan Republic and
neighboring localities "rich in land," the decree
promised.

submarine. She (the Marken), under British control, sailed from England with a cargo of war supplies which included airplanes and presumably was destined for Capetown, South Africa. Her last port of call before the torpedoing was Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.

Sept. 11-In a world-wide radio broadcast from the White House, inspired by the sinkings of American ships (Sessa and Steel Seafarer) by U-boats and enemy planes, President Roosevelt said: "These Nazi submarines and raiders are the rattlesnakes of the Atlantic. They are a menace to the free pathways of the high seas. They are a challenge to our sovereignty. They hammer at our most precious rights when they attack ships of the American flag-symbols of our independence, our freedom, our very life. It is no act of war on our part when we decide to protect the seas which are vital to American defense, The aggression is not ours. Ours is solely defense.

"But let this warning be clear. From now on. if German or Italian vessels of war enter the waters, the protection of which is necessary fo American defense, they do so at their own peril The orders which I have given as commanderin-chief to the United States Army and Navy are to carry out that policy-at once. The sole responsibility rests upon Germany. There will be no shooting unless Germany continues to seek it." The talk was broadcast and rebroadcast in 18 languages.

The Japanese War Office announced the creation of a new General Defense Headquarters under direct command of the Emperor, which will be responsible for the defense of Japan Proper, Korea, Formosa and Sakhalin.

-The Dutch motorship, Kota Nopan, from Batavia for New York with rubber, tin and palm oil, has been sunk by a German war vessel in the Galapogos Islands.

Moines, Iowa, said: "The three most important groups which have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration. He said he could understand why the Jewish people, so persecuted, wished the overthrow of the Hitler regime. "Their greatest danger to this country, he said of the Jews, lie in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government."

-The Finnish communique said: "After a long pause, the attack launched northeast of Lake-Smolensk, in Russia, is under German longLadoga in July was resumed Sept. 4. In three range shell fire. days our troops, who advanced fighting 75 kilo-Charles A. Lindbergh, in an address in Des meters (47 miles) have reached the Suit River." Sept. 8-London revealed that "without enemy interference a landing was effected in Spitzbergen by mixed Canadian, British and Norwegian forces under Canadian command. The main purpose was to prevent the enemy from utilizing its rich coal mines. The mines were wrecked and the coal and oil dumps were burned, it was asserted; 2,000 Russian miners and 1,000 Norwegian settlers were moved from the island. -The German High Command stated that Lenin--The American-owned cargo steamship (Panama grad had been cut off from all communication by land, German mobile units having reached the Neva River east of the city, and captured Schluesselberg. railroad center on Lake Ladoga. German sappers found 10,000 Russian mines around that city.

-For the first time in history the U. S. Govern-
ment, through special national defense units of
the Federal Communications Commission, is
officially listening in" and dissecting foreign
short-wave broadcasts. The Foreign Broadcast
Monitoring Service, created by the Commission
in cooperation with the Defense Communications
Board, is translating, transcribing, analyzing and
reporting on from 600,000 to 900,000 words daily
by foreign broadcast stations throughout the
entire world as recorded by the Commission's
National Defense Operations Section.
Sept. 9-The Iranian National Assembly agreed to
the Anglo-Russian demand to evacuate Axis
Nationals and to turn over to the Allies occu-
pation zones in the southwest and the north
and transit facilities between the two zones. The
British zone is 400 miles by 100 miles, embrac-
ing ports and oil fields. The Russian line runs
east from the Irak frontier near Ushnuiyeh,
south to Lake Urmia through Kazvin to Samnan.
The capital is excluded.

registry) Arkansan, 7,000 tons, from New York City, was hit by shell fragments in an enemy raid on the port of Suez. Italian planes have been making almost nightly attacks in the Red Sea and the approaches to Suez.

Sept. 12-The American-owned lumber-laden cargo steamship, Montana (ex-Danish ship, Paula) bound from Wilmington, N. C., for Iceland, was torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Greenland, 260 miles from Iceland and 40 miles from where the Sessa was sunk on Aug. 17. The torpedoing of the Montana was witnessed by a British patrol plane.

-Russian forces evacuated the City and area of Chernigov, on the route to Kiev, 80 miles south. Farther south the Russians recrossed the lower Dnieper River at four points and retook an island in the river, it was announced. They kept advancing in the center, where they were said to have smashed four enemy divisions. Wet weather and mud are hindering both armies. -British planes raided for the first time the German Baltic port of Rostock, a base of operations against the Russian Baltic fleet. Sept. 13-Berlin said that mass submarine operations "in Icelandic waters" had destroyed 28 ships (164,000 tons) in a single British convoy. It was stated later that in the week of Sept. 13-20, 250,300 tons were sunk.

a large convoy trailed by German planes and

Harbor daily.

Sept. 10-In Norway, Reich Commissioner Joseph Terboven put the Oslo area under martial law-London asserted it had lost eight ships out of in an effort to suppress an outbreak of strikes ascribed to Communist elements who "criminally U-boats. disturbed peaceful work." Two trade union--U. S. Navy mine sweepers go all over New York leaders were executed by a firing squad. -British planes bombed the Corinth Canal between Peloponnesus and the Greek mainland. It had been raided in August. Aerial photographs taken afterward showed hits within 50 feet of the brink, sending tons of earth into the canal. -The airport of Ismailia, on the Suez Canal, was bombed with several tons of explosives and hundreds of incendiaries by the German Air Force. -The German communique said, as to Russia, "In the east there were steady successes in the attack."

-The Dutch freighter, Marken, was torpedoed and sunk 400 miles off the Brazil coast by a German

Sept. 14-The Russian communique said: "Our troops continued stubborn daylong battles along the entire front. After many days of fierce fighting Soviet troops abandoned Kremenchug. -The German communique said: "The favorable course of operations in the east prepared the way for new successes in battle. After strong German forces broke into Leningrad's defense front, closer encirclement of the city continues without interruption despite bitter defense." Between the German forces and that city is nothing but a flat country, 15 miles in extent. For ten days German artillery batteries have been pour

ing shells into Leningrad and Nazi bombers have paid nightly visits. Sept. 15-Secretary of the Navy Knox said in a speech at the American Legion Convention, in Milwaukee: "Beginning tomorrow the American Navy will provide protection as adequate as we can make it for ships of every flag carrying lendaid supplies between the American Continent and the waters adjacent to Iceland. These ships are ordered to capture or destroy by every means at their disposal Axis-controlled submarines or surface raiders encountered in these waters. That is our answer to Mr. Hitler's declaration that he will try to sink every ship his vessels encounter on the routes leading from the United States to British ports."

-The German communique said German forces that crossed the Dnieper River had fought their way into the plain leading to Crimea. --Germans and Finns shelled the Russian naval base of Kronstadt.

Sept. 16-The throne of Iran (Persia) was given up by Riza Shah Pahlevi in favor of Crown Prince Mohammed Riza Pahlevi, 21. All Iranian Army planes disappeared from fields outside Teheran during the day.

-At Damascus, the independence of Syria was proclaimed by the occupying Free French authorities. Sheik Tajeddine Hassani was named the first President of the Republic.

-A bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters in Russia said that in the region south of Lake Ilmon, nine enemy divisions were annihilated, an additional division crushed, with heavy losses for the enemy. Over 53,000 prisoners fell into our hands, and 230 tanks and 695 pieces of artillery of all calibers, as well as numerous war material captured or destroyed."

-The American Export liner Excambion was taken into Lisbon by the U. S. Coast Guard sloop Ingham, which departed immediately thereafter.

Sept. 17-The Germans have begun a drive toward the Crimea from the southern reaches of the Dnieper River. The way leading thereto and to the Donets basin is a flat steppe with few defensive advantages. Berlin said the Germans had pushed Soviet troops back over the four-mile-wide Perekop Isthmus joining Crimea and the Ukraine and were beginning an invasion of Northern Crimea. The German communique said that "in the East the offensive is developing into an operation of the greatest extent." -The Russian bulletin said: "During the night of Sept. 16-17 our troops fought the enemy on the entire front."

-Loss of the British submarine P32 was announced by the Admiralty.

-Vichy announced that 500,000 French prisoners of war, one-fourth of the total number, had been freed from German prison camps. -British, Indian and Russian motorized columns entered the suburbs of Teheran, completing the Allied occupation of strategic Iranian cities and bases begun Aug. 25 when the Allied troops crossed the frontiers.

-Under command of Maj. Gen. Charles H. Bonesteel, a field force of the U. S. Army has arrived at Reykjavik, Iceland, comprising infantry, artillery and medical units, with supplies of equipment and materials. U. S. Naval and Marine forces got there by July 7; Air Corps units and Army nurses are there. -The U. S. Defense Supplies Corporation has contracted to buy $100,000,000 of Russian manganese, chromite, asbestos and platinum, all needed for the defense program. Russia received an advance of $10,000,000 a month ago against the shipment of Russian gold in 90 days. Sept. 18-Russia ordered the conscription of every man between the ages of 16 and 50 for military training after working hours. The new measure will not disrupt war production, Moscow said. The German communique said: "In the Ukraine, offensive operations east of the Dnieper are progressing irresistibly. In fighting around the fortifications of Leningrad, great successes were achieved. Sections of one infantry division alone stormed 119 pillboxes."

-The Russians reported that reinforced defenders of Leningrad had driven the Germans back ten miles and recaptured three villages near that besieged city.

-Paris has a three-day 9 P. M. curfew, imposed by the Germans.

Sept. 19-Chancellor Hitler's field headquarters announced that German forces had captured the industrial city of Kiev (over 800,000 population). ancient capital of the Ukraine, and had "overrun" Poltava, 200 miles to the east. The next objective was Kharkov in the Donetz Basin, the bulletin said, adding that the taking of Kiev

was due to the encirclement of four Red Armies about 125 miles east of Kiev-armies of unstated size (but possibly numbering as many as 500.000 men) which were being steadily cut to pieces. -German casualties in Russia to Aug. 31 were thus summarized by Berlin: 84,354 killed; 292,690 wounded; 18,921 missing; air force, 1,542 killed: 3,980 wounded, 1,378 missing. German plane losses were put at 725-"only a part of our monthly production."

-The Pink Star, a freight steamer, was sunk by an unidentified submarine between Iceland and Greenland. She left New York Sept. 3. Like the Sessa and the Montana, which were torpedoed in the same area, she was a former Danish vessel, requisitioned by the U. S. Maritime Commission. It was chartered to the United States Lines and placed under Panama registry. She carried a gun and was in a convoy under Canadian escort when attacked. The ship was registered in Panama because of restrictions in the Neutrality Act that prevent ships flying the American flag or manned by American citizens from entering the North Atlantic combat zone. There is no restriction in the law against the maintenance of American ownership, and Panamanian laws permit this.

Sept. 20 German fliers bombed Odessa and Moscow, and ground forces occupied the Baltic Islands of Muhu and Vorms; and the eastern part of Oesel Island.

-British planes raided the Baltic port of Stettin. -Two Italian motorships transporting troops to Libya were torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Tripoli, but nearly all the soldiers and crew on board the vessels were saved, the Italian high command reported.

-In Paris, 12 French hostages were executed in reprisal for attacks on German soldiers. -In Holland a decree excludes Jews from public parks and zoos, restaurants, saloons, coffee houses, hotels, boarding houses, sleeping cars and restaurant cars, theaters, cabarets, vaudevilles, cinemas, sports grounds and sporting events, concerts and artistic performances, braries and public reading rooms.

Sept. 21-The German communique from the Russian front said the Sea of Azov had been reached by Axis forces, an infantry division." having crossed the Dnieper River at Berislav, 371⁄2 miles northeast of Kherson. In the Baltic, Arensburg, capital of Oesel, has been captured by determined action. The islands of Moon and Oesel are thus securely in our hands."

-The Moscow war bulletin said Kiev had been evacuated, adding: "Our troops fought the enemy along the whole front."

-The number of Croat workers in Germany now exceeds 50,000. The total civilian foreign workers employed in Germany now is close to 2,000,000. This does not include Russian prisoners, estimated by Berlin at 2,000,000. Sept. 22-The Rome High Command said: "Assault units of the Italian marine entered the bay and inner port of Gibraltar, sank one tanker of 10,000 tons, another of 600 tons and one steamer of 6,000 tons, loaded with munitions, and seriously hit a steamer of 12,000 tons loaded with war material. This steamer hit against rocks, where it was stranded and therefore can be considered lost."

-The London bulletin asserted that British submarines in the Mediterranean destroyed two Italian liners like the 24,469-ton Vulcania. --The German bulletin said that at Kronstadt the Soviet battleship, October Revolution, and the heavy cruiser Kirov were hit by bombs. -Russians claimed destruction of six German infantry battalions in the Ukraine, adding that Soviet troops were still fighting "the enemy along the entire front."

Sept. 23-Moscow said Soviet forces were standing ground in the Smolensk, Kharkov and Leningrad areas, and to the east of Kiev.

Berlin, announcing increase of Russian (Kiev) prisoners to 380,000, said "50 Soviet divisions may be regarded as completely destroyed. The commander in chief of the 5th Russian Army is among the prisoners taken."

-In Croatia, 98 native soldiers and six officers have been killed by Servian "outlaws" who defied an ultimatum by the German-controlled government of Serbia to come out of their mountain hideouts willingly or be bombed out. It also was announced that two members of the official Ustachi assault squads of Ante Pavelich, Croatian Chief of State, had been courtmartialed and shot for "despotically murdering and robbing Serbs." -The 35.000-ton U. S. battleship Massachusetts was launched at Quincy, Mass. She is designed to carry nine 16-inch guns and batteries of

smaller weapons, and to have a speed in excess of 27 knots. Sept. 24-The Germans have reached the suburbs of Leningrad, Rome said. The British radio quoted the Leningrad radio as announcing that "the enemy is at the gates," and adding that knowledge of danger was "inspiring every citizen" to labor in the city's defense. -United States and British missions to the tripower conference arrived in Moscow. They met Premier Stalin Sept. 28, and began business sessions the next day. The U. S. delegation was headed by W. A. Harriman.

Sept. 25-A German bulletin said "desperate attempts to break out by the last enemy forces encircled in the region eastward of Kiev were repulsed with bloody losses for the opponent. In mopping up the battlefield, the body of Col. Gen. Kirtonos, supreme commander of the Soviet southwestern front, who fell in battle, was found. His staff, as well as the staffs of the 5th and 21st Soviet armies, were annihilated." It was also stated German submarines had trailed and sunk off the west coast of

arrests in Sofia and the villages along the Yugoslay frontier, where Serbian Chetniks (rebels) and Bulgarian peasant saboteurs are reported active.

Sept. 30-Moscow said: "Our troops fought the enemy along the entire front. After stubborn fighting our troops evacuated Poltava." -The Germans announced the execution of 58 more Czechs on treason charges. Germans and Italians attacked towns in Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro and there was further ferment in Norway, France and the Netherlands. -Prime Minister Churchill assured the House of Commons that British shipping losses, JulySeptember, were one-third of those in April-June, when the total, including Allied and Neutral, was 318 vessels, (1,416,416) tons.

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Africa 11 or 12 convoyed ships bound for England-Nazi -total, 78,000 tons.

-Rome announced the reoccupation of a demilitarized Croatian zone along the Adriatic Sea; 2,000 German troops have been assigned to help stop disorders in Servia.

forces, with the help of parachutists and gliders, broke through the Russians' first defense line on the Perekop Isthmus in the drive toward Crimea. -The United States-British-Russian conference in Moscow over war supplies for Russia ended after a 2-day session in which Stalin got, it was stated, promises of abundant aid.

-Great Britain's war expenditures has reached £13,000,000 a day, Chancellor of the Exechequer Sir Kingsley Wood told Commons.

-Moscow said Leningrad was holding out, and a host of German soldiers were being "annihilated" in the attempt to invade the Crimea. The Russian Baltic fleet is reported bottled up in Kronstadt Bay. Long-range German artillery engaged with Soviet warships in Leningrad-The United States Department of State admitted harbor reported the sinking of a 10,000-ton Russian merchant ship.

Sept. 26 In East Africa the garrison of Wolchefit (Uolchefit), besieged since April 15, were ordered to cease resistance. The men had been without food supplies for days past.

-The Germans in the Ukraine are making increasing use of parachutes.

-In London, Russia and Free France made a political and military alliance.

-In Norway the factories are busy making skis and portable wooden barracks for the German troops in Russia.

Sept. 27-Berlin announced that "the big battle near Kiev is finished," adding that the total of prisoners had reached 665,000. -The Finns occupied Konevitsa Monastery (on an island in Lake Ladoga). The principal monastery buildings near by were found undamaged.

-Moscow said 4,000 German corpses had been found in the approaches to Leningrad. -The American-owned 7,052-ton tanker I. C. White, of Panama registry, was torpedoed and sunk in the South Atlantic, on the way to Cape Town, from Curacao, W. I. The survivors were landed at a Brazilian port.

-The launching of 14 new ships of the American merchant marine marked a nation-wide Liberty Fleet Day celebration in shipyards on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts.

-The 33,950-ton British battleship, Nelson, was hit by a torpedo from an Italian plane in an attack on a British convoy in the Central Mediterranean. Only one ship in the convoy was lost, London said. Rome claimed three cruisers and four merchant ships.

Brazil to the Lend-Lease fold to the extent of $100,000,000.

Oct. 2-The White House issued an official statement saying: "Since the Soviet constitution declares that freedom of religion is granted, it is hoped that in the light of the report of the Polish Ambassador an entering wedge for the practice of complete freedom of religion is defintely on its way."

-There have been executions of more than 60 persons in the Southern Banat region of the former Yugoslavia for recent killings, attempted train wrecks and other sabotage. Germans are occupying the southern Banat and Hungarian troops the northern area of the former Yugoslav district.

-At Prague, executions of persons accused of fomenting revolt against German rule have reached 141 and continue daily.

-Six men were killed when the Army bombing plane B-18 hit Agassiz Peak in Arizona. -In the order-of-the-day to the German forces in Russia, Chancellor Hitler, Supreme Commander, said: "Today begins the last great decisive battle of this year. It will hit this enemy destructively, and with it the instigator of the entire war, England herself. For if we crush this opponent we also remove the last English ally on the Continent. Thus we will free the German Reich and all Europe from a menace greater than any since the time of the Huns and later of the Mongol tribes."

Oct. 3-Chancellor Hitler returned to Berlin from the Ukraine battle front and in a speech to the German nation declared that Russia "is already broken and will never rise again. All Europe,' he said, "had escaped destruction only by the skin of our teeth.'

Germans have shot the Mayor of Prague and several members of the City Council. They were charged with armed revolt.

-Charles A. Lindbergh, in Fort Wayne, Ind., told of his fear of a suspension of the Congressional elections of 1942.

-Six of Paris's synagogues were blown up over night by rightwing terrorists.

Sept. 28-In the German protectorate of Bohemia-
Moravia, a state of civil emergency in the dis--The
tricts of Prague, Bruena (Brno), Maehrisch-
Ostrau, Kladno, Koeniggratz and Olmuetz, which
make up the most populous part of the pro-
tectorate. The Premier, Gen. Alois Elias, was
charged with "preparation for high treason";
24 persons, including three generals, were shot
by order of a German court martial.
-Berlin stated that German submarines, in an
attack lasting several days, sank twelve ships
of 67,000 tons and a protecting vessel in a convoy
sailing from Gibraltar to England.
-Rain fell along the whole Russian front.
-At the German-Swiss border, 300 British wounded
war prisoners started travel on a Swiss hospital
train that was turned over to German authorities.
The train was manned by German officers and
soldiers. The exchange was based on Article 69
of the Geneva Convention of July 27, 1929.
Sept. 29-Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt took office
as Assistant Director of the Office of Civilian
Defense.

-Berlin reported the destruction of three Red
Army divisions in a new battle of encirclement
in the drive toward the Donets Basin and
Kharkov in the Eastern Ukraine.
-Bulgarian secret police, with German Gestapo
and Elite Guard raiding squads, conducted mass

Oct. 4-Moscow, through the official spokesman, S. A. Lozovsky, put forth a government statement, pointing out the actual text of Article 124 of the Soviet Constitution of 1935-"To insure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U. S. S. R. is separated from the State and the school from the church. Freedom to perform religious rites and freedom of anti-religious propaganda is recognized for all citizens." -The French 8,194-ton liner, Theophile Gautier, in an Italian convoy, was sunk by a Britsh submarine in the Aegean Sea.

Oct. 5-Russian official estimates of losses to date in the present war are-the Ukraine, etc., 1,128,000 men (230,000 killed; 720,000 wounded: 178,000 missing); 7,000 tanks: 8,900 cannon; 5.316 airplanes. Russian official estimates of German losses are--3,000,000 men; 11,000 tanks; 13,000 cannon. Moscow reports that Yugoslav irregulars

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