The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-24

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dren living in Moscow had been
ordered home.
Likewise, Domei Japanese
new agency broadcast that to-
days comments in the Japanese
press "are much clearer in their
manifestations of sympathy for
Germany and in indicating the
future course of Japanese pol
ICY"
DNB, the official German
news agency, said Nazi legions
had broken Soviet Notifications
in the center of the 2,000-mile
broken Soviet Notifications in
the center of the 2,000-mile east
ern front after hard fighting.
While the locale was not furth-
er specified, it apparently was
the rolling, forested plateau of
what was once middle Poland.
CLAIM REPULSE
Although Russian advices in
dictated German penetration of
10 to Is miles in places in Adolf
Hitler's new drive to the east,
the Soviet high command de-
clared two Nazi columns had
been repulsed with heavy losses.
1t was admitted that Brest
Litovsk, scene of the Bolshevist
signing of a world war peace
with Germany, Kolna and Lom-
"a had fallen. All are in Polish
territory. In addition, Bucha-
rest dispatches of Reuters said
Rumanian troops, fighting as al
lies Of Germany, ihad occupied
Cernauti, in northern Bucovina,
which Russia wrested from Ru-
mania by ultimatum a year ago.
British Foreign Secretary
Eden formally welcomed Rus
STA as an ally Gin our common
task, the defeat of Germany" in
a house of commons speech.
NOT THE ISSUE
Communism is not the issue,
he said, but what counts is that
the Russians are fighting the
man who seeks to dominate the
world"
In London earlier 1t was an
nounced that Moscow had for
mally accepted an offer of co-or-
dinating British military and
economic missions.
This coordination is in addi-
ton to the stepped-up pace of
Britain's aerial offensive against
the Reich. Informed London
sources said the manufacturing
centers of Cologne and Dues
seldorf and the naval base of
Kiel were targets of the 18th
consecutive Raj night attack
upon Germany last night.
The German high command
reported the British bombers
killed and wounded several
civilians and hit apartment
houses.
RED REPORTS
Soviet war correspondents
described the Russian frontier
guards, forming the outposts of
a nation two and q half times as
large as the United States, as
Fighting like lions"
Pravda, Communist party or
an, declared in an editorial
against Russia's former partner
in q nonagression pact: 1.-THE
thing to do now is to smash the
vile Fascist beast which dared to
lift its blood-stained paw
against our free life."
The Nazi Columns etc xxx pick
ing up fourth Graf orig.
The Red army acknowledged
today that Germany's blitzkriee
invaders had captured three
frontier towns after pushing IL
to Is miles into Russian terri
tory, but declared two other Mar
columns had been driven back
with heavy losses.
The towns which the Russian!
admitted had fallen after two
days of sharp fighting were
Brest Litovsk where thu
Bolshevist government signed it
World War peace treaty will
Germany-and Kolna and LON
"a.
All three are in former Pc
land, which Germany and Rus
sia divided as friends little NOR,
than q year ago, and near tn,
middle of the 2,000-mile war
front extending from the Baltic
to the Black Sea.
The Maxi columns which tn,
Russians reported driving bacl
were said to have been aiming
at Siaulia (Shavli) In Sovietizet
Lithuania, % miles northeast o
the East Prussia border, AM
RsVvs RuSIka. formerly In south