SOVIET & GERMANY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1939, Page 5

SOVIET & GERMANY

♦ MILITARY ASSISTANCE UNLIKELY TALK OF SUBMARINE REINFORCEMENTS REGARDED AS PROPAGANDA. REASONS FOR RUSSIAN NEUTRALITY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. ■ NEW YORK, October 17. The Moscow correspondent of the “New York Times,” l\lr G. E. Gedye, says that ■ diplomatic circles consider reports that Russian snbma- j rines are reinforcing Germans 1 in the North Sea to he German propaganda to ITightcn ( the Allies info abandoning j the war. ’There is no reason < to suspect that, the Soviet is 1 contemplating such an inter- | national outrage as secret par- , 1 ic.ipation in the war. f Theoretically it is possible lo sell submarines to Germany, but techni- { cally it is unlikely in view of the diffi- 1 cullies of operating the strange types. ‘ It is improbable Russia will weaken 1 her Baltic defence and reveal submar-, c ine secrets. ’ There are many reasons why Russia c is unlikely to provoke war against the ( Allies, including one that it would block all supplies of rubber and tin ’ and English and United States’ mach- ' ines on which the Five-Year Plan is dependent, and would expose the Far ' East and her trade by the Black Sea and Vladivostock to attack. NAZIS AT ODDS OVER COLLABORATION WITH RUSSIA. Serious differences of opinion between the Nazi Party leaders and Ger- t man many chiefs over the question of collaboration with Russia are reported from Kaunas, the capital of Lithunia, I a radio message states. These differ- a ences of opinion were stated to have i arisen at the last conference in Hit- v ler’s room at the Reich Chancellery in C Berlin. r