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~ AFTER BRITISH. RED INVASION
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There are few today who do
not admit confusion over the
multiplicity of battle reports
from Europe.
Beyond the fact that the Rus
sians have indulged in slow, stub
born retreat, and that the oft
forecasted terrible disaster to Red
arms has failed to materialize,
little of the actuality is known
to us
It helps 1o understand the eur
"yent war news situation If one will
turn back to newspaper files of
September, 1914,
The Battle of the Marne, fought
aßt that time, ultimately proved to
have been the last great war's
turning po.nt.
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Throughout the period of
that titantic struggle the Ger
man high command, after
trumpeting early and very
real successes, was reticent.
It issued communiques concern
ed with minor successes on other
fronts, it wamed the German
people “this battle of the Marne
may be a long one.”
Then one day the Berlin high
command told its people that the
Allies had been “unable to main
tain their offensive movement.”
It was only with that disclosure
that the German people knew the
Allies had taken the offensive fol
lowing the German drive close to
Paris, |
The German leaders reported
time after time that the Al
lied armies’ attempts to “break
through” were failures. |
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Finally, they told the Ger
man people truthfully that!
the battle had taken a favor
able turn. |
But, by then the German high
eommand was not talking aboutl
the Battle of the Marne, but about ’
the Battle of the Aisne, to which
river the German army had re
treated. |
Obviously, the propaganda meth- |
ods of high commands have not |
been altered since. -‘
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That installment selling
business Washington is clos
ing down 1s one of the biggest
things in this good-sized na
tion. ;
At midyear consumer credit out- |
standing was estimated by a Ru:-'
sel] Sage foundation expert at|
$9.800,000,000, an all-time high.
Of this, approximately £5,000,-
000,000 was installment contracts
arising out of the sale of goods and
services,
The ruling aims at slowing down
inflation. It is supposed to pre
vent our buying what current in
come will not finance, with the as
gistance of savings although gov
ernment ahsorption of these by
war bonds will touch everybody.
The tremendous drop in pur
chases of major equipment—auto
mobiles, refrigerators, ranges,
washing machines, radios, etc.—
is supposed to eliminate competi
tion for an insufficient supply of
heavy consumer goods, and there
by discourage manufacturers and
dealers from raising prices,
Also, the move is designed in a
roundabout sort of way to make
the public less discontented over
the fact that, possessing more
money than ever before, we can't
buy labor-savers and semi-luxuries
Lecause there aren't enough to go
around
Apparently, the theory is that
#f we have (o pay cash, most of us
won't feel able to order a new
ear; i we don’t order, we won't
Jearn that there aren’t many autos
because materials and iabor have
been diverted to war material and
if we never learn about this short
tage, we won't become aware that
we can't wage war without break
ing pleasant habits.
Biddle Nominate
iddle N ted
For Jackson Post
WASHINGTON President
Roosevelt Monday nominated
Solicitor General Francis Biddle as
attorney general to succeed Robert
H. Jackson, now an associate jus-
Ve of the supreme court
The 55-year-old Philadeiphia at
torney has been acting as attor
ney general since Jackson became
a member of the high court on
July 11
Biddle s great-great-grandfather
Edmund Randolph, was thig na
tion's first attorney general Biddle
wouid be the 55th,
STATE
EDITION
VOL. 38, NO. 223.
l;
Lower Tax
'Exemptions
!
. 6.000.000 More ;
|
' On Rolls Would Be
. Added Under Plan
| |
. WASHINGTON The sen
ate finance commitiee \'nted;
|lO to 6 Monday to lower per
sonal income tax exemptions
from $2,000 to $1,500 for
married couples and SBOO to
' 8750 for single persons, and
|decided against inclusion of
la general sales tax in the
| pending revenue bill. |
i The lowering of exemptions
would add an estimated 6 000,000
income taxpayers to present rolls
and increase the yield of the pend
ing $3,236,700,000 bill by about
$£300.300,000. That is the amount
eliminated from the measure by
| the house when it voted down a
| proposal for mandatory joint hus
band-wife income tax returns,
Besides voting not to consider
sales tax proposals, the senate
committee also took similar action
against suggestion for a withhold
ing-—or payroll--tax, which would
be collected on wages and salaries
|at their source,
| TAX RATE FOR LOW i
BRACKETS MAY BE UPPED |
| Chairman Walter F. George, D,
'Ga., in announcing the vote on the |
| lowering of exemptions, indicated '
'that the committee later might
' consider proposals for boosting the
projected tax rates for low bracket
income. The bill, in its present
form, retains the present 4 per
cent rate and adds new surtaxes
starting at 5 per cent on the first
'dollar of taxable income, After
the first $2,000 of taxable income,
the surtaxes jump to 11 per cent,
and are graduated upward in
subsequent brackets.
The treasury, which also
advocated the lowering of
exemptions, has proposed that
% surtaxes start at 11 per cent.
. The senate committee concluded |
open hearings on the house ap
proved measure last Saturday. It
expected to report the bill some
time this week, sending it to the
floor for consideration next week |
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Bottleneck Probe
Hearings 0 '
earings Upen |
SEATTLE—The Truman com
mittee of three senators opened
& two-day hearing Monday on
‘national defense bottlenecks.
.~ Dr. Paul J. Raver, Bonneville
administrator, was called to testi
fy in an investigation of delays
in building three government
owned aluminum plants in the Pa
cific northwest. Dr. Raver pro
tested the delay, which he said
was costing the nation 250 tons
of aluminum daily
Sen. Harry S, Truman eof
Missouri, chalrman of the
commission, was accompanied
here by Sens. Mon (. Wall
gren of Washington, James M.
Mead of New York and Ralph
O. Brewster of Maine.
Possibility of producing steel on
the Pacific coast will aiso be in
vestigated by the committee. Po
tentialities of magnesium here
will also be looked into |
Raymond Miller, expert govern- ‘
ment metallurgist, was brought
from Portiand to testify. ;
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D!)Bmi"w |
uil[l Hil{m
The Tacoma Times
TACOMA, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1941,
Intensify Pressure on Leningrad
Stuka-Paced Nazi Forces
Mop Up Most of Ukraine
West of Dnieper River
Sea Victories Are Also Claimed
BULLETIN
NEW YORK-—The German radio in a broadeast heard by the
United Preas listening post here said Monday night that the cap
ture of Vilpuri by German-Finnish troops was reported imminent.
BATTLE OF.IUSSIA—OSTN DAY
BERLIN Stuka-paced German forces were reported
Monday to have mopped up most of the Ukraine west of
the Dnieper river, to be intensifving pressure on Leningrad,
and to have thrust “deep into Soviet positions” in furious
fighting around Tallinn. =
Fight Off Foe
Women Join Men
' In Furious Battle
MOSCOW A Soviet war
communique reported Monday
that the army of Marshal
Klementi Voroshilov, swelled
by thousands of men and
|women for a last ditch de
fense of Leningrad, continued
to fight off Finnish and Ger-'
{man forces driving in from
the north and south.
| The battle of Leningrad, prob
ably one of the greatest of all
time, raged with unabated fury
throughout-the night with heavi
est fighting around Kakisalmi, on |
the Karelian isthmus about 75
miles to the northwest, and Nov
gorod, 120 miles to the south, the
(‘ommumquf said
A great battle was reported
in progress alse at the south.
| ern end of the | 300-mile front
around Dniepropetrovsk, im
portant Industrial city of the
Ukraine just north of the big
Dnieper river dam.
' The Russian Baltic fleet inter
cepted a German convey of four
transports, laden with troops,
tanks and munitions, sank twe of
them and forced the other to
tbeach themseives, the communique
reported
I Two German patrol boats, which
had been escorting the convoy,
were said to have been run
‘aground.
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In Major Leagues
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
First game
Washington 010 10600613 12 1
St Louis 220 100 olx—6 1) O
Philadelphia at Detroit, post.
poned rai
Boston at Cleveland, nght
New York 001 000 KO- % »
Chicago 020 008 40x—9% 12 3
Russo, Branch (7) and Biives
tri, Smith and Tresh
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NATIONAL LEAGLE
Cincinnati at New York, post
poned rain
Pittaburgh 2! Boston, postponed
ra'n
St Louis at Breoklyn, post.
poned, rain
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BANK TRANSACTIONS
Tacoma sesssssees DI
y The high command's daily com
{ munique, omitting mention of
| specific sectors, said only that
operations everywhere were “pro
| gressing well”
| Other German sources reported,
however, that the important
| Ukrainian industrial cities of
| Dniepropetrovak and Dniepro
dzerzhingk and the big Zaporozhe
fpowor plant were in Nazi handas,
| that the Namzi tide was wsurging
! closer to Leningrad and that the
| Estonian front had flared into
;vm\enl action,
'VICTORIES AT SFA
ALSO ARE LISTED
| The official news agency claimed
| that German mines had destroyed
| one Soviet destroyer, three mer
| echantmen and two mine-sweepers
in the Baltic, that Nazi naval
forces had sunk a Russian tanker,
|and that Finnish coastal batteries
had sunk a troop-laden 5 000-ton
Russian transport, ‘
| Strong Soviet armored forees,
| supported by artillery and anti
' alrcraft batteries, were admitted
to have launched furious rountor!
attacks in one sector of the cen
tral front “in order to relieve
their beaten formations ™
The German forees, “in
. days-long of heroic battle”
. however, were sald to have
repulseed all attacks and In
| three days of fighting were
| reported to have knocked out
85 Russian tanks.
Russian counter - attacks
launched in & neighboring sector
also were reported hurled back by
“effective German defense” '
“Eight times, the Soviels sent
their waves of men against the
Germang and eight times the Bol
| shevik moldiers fell in the face of
German fire,” the reports smd. ,
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'Aged Tacoman Ends
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‘Life With Rifle ;
| Tacoma's only violent death
over the week-end was recorded
Sunday at 930 a m with the
suicide of John Henry Johnson, 79,
of 1451 Ea 27Tth st *
Johnson shot himself to death |
) with a high-powered rifle in a
shed at the rear of his home, police
reports disciosed Monday His
death was reported by his daugh
, ter, Mras. Alva Tuel of the same
| address, who heard the shot and
went out to investigate
The elderly mmn bhad been in
il health for some time, it was
learned, and be had threatened
suicide before Mrs Tuel told po
lice she bad found s revolver and
shells in the wshed early last
spring and had hidden them
Despite his previously announced
intention of taking his life, his
death Bunday came as % surprise
' to the family, members of which
sald he was in good spirits short.y
before the tlragedy
‘ A native of Bweden, Johnson had
{lived in and near Tacoma since
| 1885 He was employed by the Ta
coma public wor ks department and
was & member of the Knights of
Pythias and A O U W, Besides
his daughbter, he leaves his wife,
| Mrs. Mary Johnson Mellinger will
announce funeral arrangements,
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King Traffic Toll Up
SEATTLE -The King county
traffic toll stood Monday at 91
for the year gompared with 65 at
thig time last year Joso Perers,
[56 was the latest vietimm, He was
Siruck by a car Bunday
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WEATHER FORECAST
showers tonight and Wednesday
Temperatures: High, 79; low, 57
| Sun rises, 3:51; seta, 702, )
BULLETINS
SEATTIE Raymond Miller, goversment melaliurgist, told
the Truman commilles Investigating national defense bottlenecks
Monday that the Northwest could sasily support a stesl Industry
and that Lhe area s resources have Just besn soratohed
Miller urged that a thorough survey be mads before & plan
is drafled for explodtation of Northwest resources, but he said
enough ia known now to Justify & small steel plant in Washing
ton and that the operation could be eniarged if resources of gon-
Liguous areas were used, "
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SAN FRANCINCO Negotiators for AFL bus drivers and
Pacific Greyhound company called a mesting Monday in & fosl
effort to avert the threatened sirike of L 3 drivers in seven
wesiern states at midnight tonight.
Drivers have already voled to strike st miduight unloss they
obtain satisfactory terms on thelr new contmet,
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CHICAGO George Dickey, 8. yearold Ohicage Whits Sox
catcher, and Mildred Neal, 23 of Banta Monica, Cal . wers martied
Monday in a brief ceremony performed by Cireuit Judge Staniey
H. Kisrkowski
Hill Dickey of the New York Yankeea the groom s brother
was best man
TORONTO, Ont --"M0.t.l c;u 1:-00-.»' G. R Cottrelle an
nounced Monday that effective imadiately gasoline deliverios to
dealers and service stations would be cut by twenty five par cont
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Odor Clings to Timber Deals
S
Row Over Bill for First
Check Cruise Authorized
By Governor Langlie Looms
Fditors Notee This is the sevond of o series of Informative articies
:: :::hn‘l:"d slale sehoul lands and timbers The thivd will sppear ot
" tmo:o 11-. n N..1l Writer
OLYMPIA -~ Though there seems ta be some difference
of opinion between the office of the state superintendent of
schools, the Allied Committee of Sixteen, and the state land
commissioner on matters of policy in connection with the sale
of timber om state school lands, there s agreement on the
proposition that an unpleasant odor clings to certain sapects
of the timber deals, . =
Jack Taylor, state land emn-‘
missioner, on whose head a good
deal of eriticism has fallen, s/
away & few days, but A& spokes- |
man in his office confirmed that
conclusion. He sald ]
“Anybody whe has watched
the procesdings of the sials
board of land commissioners ’
and Is familiar with the
methods of conducting sales
of timber on state school lands
will have to admit that there
are somwe bad odors, but
where they come from sn't so
cortaln. We know they do not ‘
come from the policy of this |
office, and that's all we are
concerned about.
“Commissioner Taylor was elect.
«d Ly the office of siale land com
missioner on & pialform which
pledged » square deal 1o the pub
e wschovis of Washinglon in
bandling (he sale of Umber on
whool lands he (s still stancing on
that platform. Since laking of
jiee the first of the year Commis
sioner Taylor and his slaff bßave
carefully studied the school land
Probe Deaths of Former
Ball P’Jhu and Wife
PASA A, Calit. Police Mon
day investigated the deaths of
Ralph T. Worka 53 former base |
ball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers,
and his wife, Linds, 47 )
A plate glass mirror In Ihe
room where Gheir beadies were
found was broken by & bullet. A
revolver with one discharged cart
ridge near it wag on the floor. The
cylinder of the gus contained twe
unfired cartridges. i
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WRANGELL, fi Aviator |
Tony Schwamm bad & new one l-?,‘
tell Monday. He experienced &
rough takeoff in his privale ses
plamu“vtwologumth&'
he looked down and saw the res
son. The plane had bounced '
acroms the back of a 80-foot whale f!
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Your Postmaster can tell you |
how to invest in U K Defense
Bonds. L
THREE CENTS IN Tml
lnlu‘lmu, We (hink we know
what it s all about and have
Lestablished a poliey which we be
leve will get the best possibie re
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Invaders Driven
Back in ‘Battle’
CENTRALIA - Defending forces
in the “battie of Washington ' to
day counter-atiacked M&y‘
Lon all fromis I 8 ATMY MADSUYErS
linvolving 100 000 men, and lhm’
|the “red” inveders back in three
e Lors,
Al the same Uime “Blus” bomb
ern theorelically crippled enemy
landing forces in Willaps harbor
Advancing behind & rolling artil
lery barrage, the third and 4imt
divisions from Fort Lewis struck
westward on the northern end of
the SO-mile main baitle line and
shoved the enemy back sight
miles through Claguailum to Mal.
lock. On the soulhern end. “biys"
forces advanced down the Willaps
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SEATTLE - Secrotary of War
MHemry L. Sthson and Lo
Goorge € Marshall, U 8 army
ehief of staff. arvived bere of
nosn Monday in an srmy lrass
port plane on thelr woslern tour
ol inspes tion.
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river o Walville and recaptured |
Fe Bl which fell sarlier 15 the
‘red” invaders striking nisnd trom
their landhodd st Grays Marbor
On the cotntral frost sround |
Chehaiin, the seventh and 40th &
vislons counler-atiackead for 10
‘mile guin o Porter and consoll
dated thelr advance of thal point
The sevenih division command
post was moved up from Oskwille
1o Porter, g third advancs n
two days t
Twe invading setillery battal
long were ruled “trapped” when |
10 detending bombers, escorted by
wight fighters, blasted the Willapa |
harbor raliroad bridges. The raid- |
ers also “destroyed”’ a troop trans |
port, damaged another and w-‘
tially wrecked two docks, losing
four bombers ia the action,
Failure fo Qust Hitler
Russian Troops fo Act
Moscow Assures Nation England
And Soviet Will Withdraw Forces
As Soon as Nasis Leave Country
BULLITIN
ISTANRUL Gorman ssurcss oparied sasfficially fenight
hat e Nasl ministor to Tran had premiond tlormas ol ageined
Rritain and Nussle if Iran coull put up reaintance Moy s manth.
LONDON - British .I:‘ lu.flh; armed forces struck inte
Iran without warning Monday and were reported “:
resistance in their campaign to oust German agents
protect the Red army’'s oil flelds and supply lines.
P T raeY TINW WEUNE TRy W whw W
Authoritative British souress
sid that the Tmperial foress,
consiating of troops from the Bt
ish Isles and Tadia. had snooun.
tered opposition (n the first stage
of the invasion which included the
landing of forees from British
ships at the head of the Iranian
guir
“Nenlstanee has hen
couniared bt i s sl hnows |
where or how seviemm N W™
secording e the siatement
made hore |
The forces landed from ships n
the Bandar - Shahpur sector of the
Tranian Uit were said to be ad
vancing bul it was not knewn how
far :mmmmnm-uo'
< oant |
Bandar-Suahpur & the gt
terminus of the railroad (o Ahwas
and Tehran,
CCUPATION OPERATIONS
REGIN AT DAWN MONDAY
Newn alse wan lncking of prog
-lens on olher seetors of the front
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By Nazis in Angry Tones
BERLIN Authorised German sources angrily denownced
the British-Russian march wmito [ran Monday s “on assault
on a small nation” and charged Britain with "undisputed
guilt in handing aver still another country to bolaheviom.”
German authorized sources savd that thus far they did
not know of any diplomatic “or other nou“';r-nd by Ger
many n connection with the Russion Bri move on [ran,
(In London, British sourcen had expressed belief that Ger
many would not permitl the move to go unchallenged.)
Half Million Reds on Border
LOS ANGELES - The Tokye
radic in & broadeast pieked up by
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Iran Minister Denies
Nazis in His Country
WASHINGTON lranian Min.
ister Mohammed Bohayesteh said
Monday that the Musso. British
march inlo Tran was based on “»
pretext” that CGerman fifth eol
wmnisls sre in thal country. |
He made Mo sintoment s
repariers afier & conference
with Undersecretary of Binte 1
Samner Walles. He sald the |
rvoniarence was nel lnapired
by Monday's nvasion, since B
was schaduled lnet Salwrday.
Me denlined 16 give sny parsans
R
tion pending reosipl of word from
s goverfment, Delays in n&‘
menshgen have prevented him
from receiving any direct word
siticm the mareh began he ssid ;
| would ke 1o sssure you, a 8
[ have sasured the secrstary of |
stale, that thers are ao Cerman
troops I 8 wmy country. Wa have
sought Yo mainiain our sasoeiae |
tion with QIWMI
Mussin and with Britain whare we
nave much um,n‘lmmt
thatl claime of the presense df
fiftheoiumn Cerman Lroope B
anly & pestest ™ g
ot o e o i
Tire Blows Out and
Market Is Wrecked
When & Lire on he Hght soupe
of Don Andrews bew out shortly
after noun Mondsy, it sarted &
train of events Be Bad sol N
pecied. First, the car, out of ton
trol, slewck & Nght pole. This
knocked out & firs alarm box,
whiEh chuse (ire Bpparatus Lo come
screaming from all parts of the
city. i
As & climaz, the onrushing suto
plowed into the store of Gordon's
markel, 4316 Bo 66th st where
it demolished not & littiy of the
establishment. Andrews suffered
only superficial injuries. The car
was almost & total wreck.
A nTe. NRNN WRwepeßy wewwe——m
vjmm-.“.o:
| tire Iranian
| nee cnsane SUNGHS wam mfading
[one armered bWeigade with (anke
| iapparently of Caeeh origin) and
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| LONDON - Radie Berlin repart
' ad Mondsy that the Boviet air
[foree Bad attached the [rasian
| town of Tabets sarly thie merning.
‘ Tabein s B 0 milen inakle fran,
Teouth of the Russian frentier and
[ meat (o the sapital, Tohema,
| wae and importance. T popuin
tlen is slightly less then 00008,
- soatlersd aver the Mile ot the fost
[of Mount Maband 11 was ones &
[ famous point on the Near Rast
Il"l“tfi.
R A S
twe or thres well-Lrained and well
sqpiipped afantry divisione
[ The Neitish-Russian sceupation
[operations began of dewn slong
b nmne
L routes whare tanks,
.mzm-mmfl
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1 the NBC lstening post Rare, -
ported Monday that B Russisn
| divisions. hetween 0000 and
| 500 600 tronpe, wers tomcentrated
Lo the lran hovder. 12 40 not say
| whether any of the 30 divisions had
ovossed the border.
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'Turkish Newspapers
ANKARA - FPoreign Minister
Nuitre Barscoagiu Monday assured
| Great Britain and Russls, whoee
armed forcew invaded lran, that
| Turkey would remain neutral. bt
| the Turkish press displaysd S
| plensurg sver (he astion.
| Merscogiu gave the sadlirance to
British Ambassader Sir Mughe
| Kemichbuil-Mugessen and Boviet
Ambassador M. Vieegradev in the
corne of long talka during which
[ihey told M that liain and
| Musein Bave no pelitical or terrie
[ orial designe on Lras
Turkinh publie spinien sp
poared io he in sympathy with
fran and the press donsunced
the intent sprend of hantilitien.
| Newspagers ctompased Nean
Shah Pabievl, raise of lran, t»
Mustapha Keoma! Alaturk,
Turkish satienal here.
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NOME Autboritsiive guarters
Monday regarded the Angio-Soviet
mwasion of [ren a 8 lacit sdminsion
that the Germma offensive in the
Ukraine “sotusily is threstening™
the rieh ol Bielde of the Chucasus
The joint milllary meve W
denounced A 8 & “clenr case of Ay~
Eression,” smilar to recent Britieh
operations s lrag and Syris.
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