PRELIMINARY TO SECOND FRONT

Southland Times, Issue 24877, 17 October 1942, Page 5

PRELIMINARY TO SECOND FRONT

PURPOSE OF DIEPPE RAID (Rec. 7 p.m.) MONTREAL, October 15. With his arm in a sling and a D.S.O. ribbon on his chest Lieutenant-Colonel Dollard Menard, leading 17 Dieppe survivors, shyly faced 50 newspapermen and described the bloody fight at Dieppe as an enlightening and necessary preliminary to a forthcoming permanent landing. Lieutenant-Colonel Menard and others declared that the German prisoners were treated honourably and the wounded with great kindness. The security precautions were excellent. “The raid accomplished its object. Our tanks, planes and naval craft timed the operations effectively. The men are ready to return tomorrow to finish the job,” Lieutenant-Colonel Menard said. “A second front is feasible . and ' possible,” said Mr Wendell Willkie after he had reported to President Roosevelt on the results of his mission abroad. “I said it in Moscow and say it again today. I have based my appeal for a second front on talks with generals in all countries and on the recommendations of military leaders in Britain, Russia, China and the United States.” Mr Willkie declined to say whether M. Stalin would be satisfied if a second front in Europe were delayed until next year. GERMAN VIEW The British High Command intends to give in to the Russian demand for a second front and to make Normandy the scene of the attempt, saysdhe Ber-

lin Official News Agency, according to a message from London. This, it says, can be deduced from the increased Royal Air Force activity and from the German observation of a great number of landing boats massed in specially suitable British harbours. The News Agency lists as preparations for this landing large-scale commando raids, including that on Sark, attempts near Cherbourg on September 12, an attack made on Casquets Island early in September, and an attempt to approach the coast near Annonville on October 7 when the coastal defences drove off British boats. Further attempts were observed at other points on die coast of Normandy in the same period, it says.