STIR IN RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1941, Page 5

STIR IN RUSSIA

MEN RUSHING TO ENLIST WOMEN OFFERING TO WORK IN FACTORIES. NAZI TALK OF CONQUEST IN TEN DAYS. LONDON, June 24. A great stirring up throughout Russia is indicated from various sources. Crowds cheer the departing soldiers from the stations as rousing marches are played, and the people of Moscow watch companies of troops marching along the wide boulevards. Men, including over-aged aspirants, are rushing to enlist, and women are reported to be besieging the factories and offering to replace their husbands who have been called up. Anti-Nazi films which were banned since the Russo-German non-aggres-sion pact are again appearing in the cinemas. These include “The Soldier Returns,” which is a story of the revolutionary campaign against the Germans in the Ukraine in 1918-19, and also the famous Soviet film of life in Nazi Germany, “Professor Mamlock.” The Communist Party newspaper “Pravda,” is stirring up workers, saying, “It is well known that Hitler’s new order consists of oppression of the working masses of whole countries, while Germany herself is a great concentration camp.”

M. Rytchkov, the . Commissar of Justice, has ordered short shrift for saboteurs, with whom the State’s military tribunals will deal within 24 hours.

Zurich reports the Wilhelmstrasse as saying that the German army must fight Russia in order later to attack the British Isles with full force, and that the High Command is confident of beating the Red army within 10 days or at most a fortnight. It has been discovered that the leading Nazi newspaper "Voelkischer Beobachter” on the actual day of the invasion stated, “England has tried every means to incite Russia against Nazism, but Herr Hitler and M. Molotov are far too clever. England will never have the pleasure of seeing Russia and Germany fighting each other.” SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS WARNING TAKEN TO STALIN LAST YEAR. LONDON. June 24. The political correspondent of the “Daily Express” says that when Sir Stafford Cripps went to Moscow last year he carried a letter from Mr Churchill to M. Stalin pointing out the peril of the growing German strength, and urging the co-operation of Russia with the Allies. M. Stalin then expressed the conviction that Hitler would turn on Russia when it suited him.

Sir Stafford Cripps recently formed the impression that an attdek against Russia was imminent and he consequently returned to London with a report.