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Chinese counter-attack; reach Nanchang and Foochow; small-scale attacks, 5 other provs; Chungking reptd bombed 140 times since 1938; 150-mi offensive opened west of Shanghai; Japanese rept all offensives repulsed; diplomatic significance of offensives
8 shot for espionage and Communist activity, Paris; Deat's condition believed more serious; Laval operated on; Collette trial plans; great police activity reptd in met areas
200,000 to be released by end of yr; conditions
com completes bill draft; table comparing estimated revenue with House bill
Ital Staff Chief U Cavallero, Gen A Jodl, Maj Gen F Christiansen, Field Marshal W Keitel, Foreign Min von Ribbentrop and Goering present at conf
1941Ignazio Giunti, Italian race car driver (died 1971)[†]
Ignazio Francesco Giunti was an Italian racing driver. He competed in Formula One as well as in saloon and Sports Car Racing.
1941Ben Jones, American actor and politician[†]
Benjamin Lewis Jones is an American actor, politician, playwright, and essayist, best known for his role as Cooter Davenport in The Dukes of Hazzard. Jones also served for four years in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1989, to January 3, 1993.
1941Sue MacGregor, English journalist and radio host[†]
Susan Katriona MacGregor is a British broadcaster. She is best known as a former presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and later the Today programme.
1941John McNally, English singer and guitarist[†]
John McNally is an English guitarist. He was a member of The Searchers, a band he formed in 1959, who were a big part of the Mersey sound in the early 1960s. He was the longest-serving member of the group, touring in the band from 1955 until their retirement in 2019 as well as their 2023 farewell tour and their final show at the Glastonbury Festival in June 2025.
1941Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (born 1874)[†]
Peder Oluf Pedersen was a Danish engineer and physicist. He is notable for his work on electrotechnology, his cooperation with Valdemar Poulsen on the developmental work on Wire recorders, which he called a telegraphone, the arc converter known as the Poulsen Arc Transmitter, and his work on electrical currents in the ionosphere.
1941The Tighina Agreement, a treaty regarding administration issues of the Transnistria Governorate, is signed between Germany and Romania.[†]
The Tighina Agreement was an agreement between Nazi Germany and Romania about administration, economy and security issues of the Transnistria Governorate that entered into force on 30 August 1941. It was signed during World War II, while the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union was taking place. The Tiraspol Agreement through which Romania received the region had entered in force shortly before, on 19 August.