« Russians Give Ground, but Still Hold Most of Key Cities and Retain Morale « Slowly ι sibly to Kiev. Berlin claimed the de- the note was delivered in London, and struction of 25 Red divisions around on Friday the Iranian Minister to the Review of 103d Week of War DONETS IASIN «s eastern ? Gomel. Ukraine's greatest industrial, mm TO THE CAUCASUS United States said in Washington ther· eril belt. Steel mills. cHemical In the battle for Leningrad the Fin- were only 700 Germans in his country. By Blair Bolles. factories, automotive plants con nish advance from the nortn was con- centrated here He said also that Iran would fight any but the after invader, no matter what flag he car- The German strength pushed slowlj but successfully against the i tinually steady, Germans, making good time early in the week, ried. He conferred with Secretary of Russian resistance last week, and today half of the Ukraine, about which were slowed down at the end. The Pinns State Hull and received assurances that Hitler has made hungry speeches in years past, belongs to-the Nazis. are only 50 miles from Leningrad. the United States would not support Leningrad is menaced Odessa is ready for besieging. The Germans and While the German drive a British or a Russian military move their have earned their invasion two-pronged allies 300 miles, with the Russian Iran. This was a curious an- ajgout on Leningrad, from the west and from against campaign now in its third month. The claims of the bombastic and hyperbolic the south, was in its early-week swift nouncement, time probably will dis- enemies the German and the Russian put losses during the first eight stage, the Nazis took the three towns close its purpose. Since the Roosevelt- weeks of the war at 7.000,000 men—about the population of London. Yet of Novgorod, Kinglsepp and Narva. Churchill talks, the United States, It is the Russians give no Mgn of relaxing their resistance. This is a black hour Narva has been regarded as an impor- understood, has become an ally of Eng- for Russia, but Solomon A. Lovosky, the Soviet spokesman in Moscow, said: tant Russian defense center on the land land in all but name and guns. "There is no alarm or pessimism in our ranks. Even Hitler and his bridge between the Gulf of Finland and Jn Monday President Roosevelt showed It is in Estonia. advisers understand that the war in the east has only begun." Lake Peipus. Kingisepp keen interest In the Middle East. He is in Russia Those two towns South of Russia the British made diplomatic demands on Iran, whose proper. announced that arrangements had been were in the advance of the army from made for the Pan American Bhah was told that he must rid his country of the Germans there. The Airways the west. Novgorod, where the Russians system to ferry fighting aircraft from Iranian Minister in Washington announced that Iran would fight if invaded, put up particularly stubborn resistance, the United States to West Africa and after England was reported preparing a military march across Iran. Presi- is on tne southern rim of the Red Armys' thence direct to British armed forces dent Roosevelt announced that the United States would inaugurate a South 100 defense arc near Lake Ilmen, about in the Middle East. If any British armed Atlantic service to West Africa to American to the Middle ferry get supplies miles from Leningrad. forces took a step toward Iran, they is the East. Iran bnUge between the Middle East and Russia. On the Far From the north last week the Finns would be British armed forces in the Eastern front the United States and Japan spent the week arranging for drove down the Karelian Isthmus and Middle East. the means of withdrawal of American citizens from Japan if they should succeeded in smasmng, j Those forces saw some activity durin? want to go. ·> Finns Make Helsinki high command ; the week. Their planes bombed Syracuse * * * * the Soviet de- in Sicily. tank and infantry units already had Real Gains reported, fenses what once * * * » crossed. By a concerted fire the Soviet atop was own Mannerheim Line. Russian Front artillerymen brought down three Ger- Finland's The Finns have occupied the entire up- Leningrad, the Ukraine and Gomel are man bombers and chased away the other rar bastern shore of the river Vuoksi on the hront the key words in the Russian war last Fascist Junkers. In several days the per Isthmus and claimed that five A week the United States was week From three directions the Finns anti-aircraft battery of Lt. Maleev de- Karelian ago Soviet divisions had been routed. The aroused to learn that the Japanese gov- end the Germans moved toward Lenin- stroyed 10 enemy planes." Finns also announced the talcing of the ernment had refused to permit the de- grad, the second city of Russia, whose Kiev is still Russian and the Germans of Kakisalmi on the northwest shore parture from Japan of 100 American defender. Gen. Klementi Voroshilov, ex- have said little about it. Moscow re- port of Lake The Finns said the citizens who wanted to get passage for horted the civilians to rise to their city's ported that a new play opened in the Ladoga. Russian divisions had thrown back the United States on the American ship defense, as the citizens did in an earlier Ukrainian capital during the middle they were the 142d, 168th, 198th and President Coolidge. On Monday Joseph day in Madrid and Warsaw. South of of the week and attracted many of the 115th, 265th. C. Grew, our Ambassador Tokio, Smolensk the Germans drove toward city's residents. Odessa Is now the great ip On the Soviets threw re- called on the Japanese Foreign Minister, Gomel and captured it. Almost all the German Ukrainian objective—a rich sea- Thursday inforcements the German drives Keijiro Toyoda. and discussed the Ukraine west of the Dnieper River fell port on the Black Sea. When Nikolaev against ques- on And within the Gen. i tion. By the week's end the situation to the Nazis, including the naval base was taken, only a gap of 25 miles from Leningrad. city Voroshilov called on the with was under control. Secretary Hull in- of Nikolaev on the Bug River. But that city down the Bug estuary to the people an summons. "The enemy will dicated that an arrangement had been Odessa and Kiev, the two greatest Black Sea appeared to be left open be- eioquent never set foot in our (which Stalin made with for Ukrainian cities, and several other "is- tween Odessa and the rest of Ukraine. city" Japan gradual repatria- himself defended in 1919). Gen. Voroshi- tion of American citizens from that lands of population" are yet Russian. In The loss of Odessa would give the Ger- lov said. in these words to country and of from the United the meantime Gen. Semeon Budyenny is mans increased strength on the Black IJe sought Japanese arouse the citizens to work for Lenin- States. conducting a difficult operation in getting Sea and improve the chances of a Ger- defense: The press continued to raise his troops across the Dnieper to its man sea drive against the oil port of grad's Japanese "Women: Inspire your husbands, the question whether Japan should per- eastern side. It is a river of few bridges Bat uni. ^ sons and brothers. mit the of oil from the United —-five or six between Kiev and the Black No matter how honest are the Moscow your shipment men: Join detachments for States to Vladivostok. That, Is a Eea. pronouncements of determination to go "Young too, defense. matter which time will develop. The Germans captured Nikolaev a on. what the Germans Below the wide mouth of the Volga, sandwiched beticeen the Black and Caspian Seas, lies Russia's Cau- ! "Workers: Leningrad will need more Week ago today. It is their biggest prize Russian have taken in Ukrainia casus, homeland of Josef Stalin and one of the world's richest oil regions. * * * * and more arms so as to insure men at of the war so far. Loss ls a nati°nal treasury Across the Caucasian border in Iran are more oil fields producing some 12,000,000 tons a year. Another 100 Costly the front shall have sufficient arms and Nikolaev Along with the base costly to lose. The Ger- miles aicay, near Mosul and Kirkuk, in Iraq, lies still more ammunition. Prize the Germans claimed mans now have a rich ore region on To feed Germany's great military juggernaut the 400,000 tons of oil a month it requires. Adolf Hitler has England Biggest "Workers and engineers of Leningrad: Winston Churchill, the Prime Min- the capture there of which the Soviets depended for much pointed one of his mightiest offensives at these three objectives. Should the Nazi war machine conquer the Work for defense of the defense ister of reached his country this • battleship and other naval vessels, of their vitally-needed iron. Behind the country, Caucasus alone, it would hold fields spouting close to 30 000,000 tons of oil a year, about 70 per cent of Russia's England, own with even self- across the At- but Moscow said those ships had been German troops making the advance in of your city greater entire production. week after the voyage I with no and with the lantic from his meeting at sea with destroyed, along with the floating docks. the Ukraine are the armies of the Ru- lessness, respite of of the "Colossal Russia goes calmly a heart during nine days' travel across nail or no doubt would like to control, ir is a Roosevelt.