INVASION OF RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1941, Page 5

INVASION OF RUSSIA

GERMANY EXPEDITING, PREPARATIONS SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES. DEFENCES AND UNDERGROUND AERODROMES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 15. The “Daily Telegraph” says reports which are reaching London suggests that Germany is expediting preparations for an ultimate invasion of Russia. Germany is constructing fortifications behind those on the Russian-German demarcation line in Poland and also a 'series of underground aerodromes to the south of Warsaw. Swedish correspondents in Budapest report that Germans are streaming from the area. Some have been transferred to Holland, Belgium and France. The Germans have posted notices in the Radom districts, south of Warsaw, ordering the evacuation of 43 villages before May 1. The Germans are pulling down cottages for extension of the fortifications. This area is too remote for use as a base for bombing operations on the Mediterranean or the other areas where the Germans are at present operating. The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain reports that Dr. Fritz Todt, builder of the Siegfried Line and Minister of Munitions, is making an extensive inspection of the fortifications on the Russian-German frontier. Thousands of workers have been building this “East Wall” since the delineation of the new Russian-German frontier.