The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-25
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 Moscow reported that tanks are being employed liberally in the defense of Leningrad and that Q German transport in the Gulf of Finland has been sunk. Five Ger man planes which attempted @ day. light raid on Moscow were reported shot down.
 The luftwaffe also made lengthy night attack on Moscow. Russian forces on the central front still held the initiative in small scale action in which they claimed 600 Germans were killed and @ small quantity of arms and ammunition captured.
 The British reported that they are rushing tanks to Russia at the maximum capacity of available shipping and said some of these machines can be expected to 90 into action shortly. British tank pro- duction in the first three days of tanks for Russia" week was said to be up 50 per cent over the com parable figures of a month previous.
 The German high command claimed another big submarine suc- cess. This time, 1t was asserted, II of 12 ships in Q British convoy west of Africa were sunk. Ton mage cf the shipping was estimated at 78,000 tons. The British scoffed at the ciaim.
 U. S. Navy Halts Sinklngs
 Washington House appropriations committeeman said today that Ad- milal Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations, reported North Atlantic shipping losses reduced materially in the last 60 days-the period of Increasing American naval activity in :he area-but still dangerous.
 This information was submitted by Stark in testimony before the House deficiency appropriations sub-com- mittee in support of the Presidents request for new lend-lease appropri- ations of S5 ,985 900, ,000, which in- ciulcs $850,0o0 900 for new ships.
 Stark told the committee, these sources said, that last springs rate of stnkings, which MT. Roosevelt said exceeded the combined Ameri- can-Prltish capacity to replace by three times, had been cut sharply. But, he added, the rate continues at serio IS pace and no miracles should be expected from this govern- ments decision to clear the North Atlantic shipping lanes of Nazi "rattlesnnkes".
 He informed the subcommittee that the present American naval policy was to convoy British supply ships as far as Iceland where they are picked up by the Nogal navy md then escorted to British ports.
 He was quoted that the navy is conveying plenty of ships and Inak- Ing no boneG about It."
 Ankara heard that Germany Is bringing pressure to bear on Hun gary, RumanIaand Italy to supply more troops for the eastern front. Germany was said to desire l50000 troops from Hungary, l50,000 from Rumania and 500000 from Italy. Ef- forts to increase the dispatch of French volunteers to the east also were underway.
 Stockholm reported fresh ten- slen in Norway on the anniversary of thee establishment of joint rule by the Germans and the Norwegian movement of Major Vidkun Quis- ling. The Swedes were nervous themselves over an attack on their neutrality by Das Schwarze corps, organ of the SS in Germany
 Rome reported British air attacks on Palermo, Sicily and Tripoli, BenfihaM and Bardia in North Af- flca.
 The Japanese were making Q major drive in an effort to capture the h.mportant Human province city of Changsha.