ARMS FOR SOVIET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1941, Page 5

ARMS FOR SOVIET

RUSHED BY UNITED STATES ANTICIPATION OF WINTER CAMPAIGN. NAZI EFFORT TO REACH OILFIELDS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) NEW YORK, August 19. The Washington correspondent of the United Press of America says unofficial but well-informed military experts said that the United States is rushing arms to Russia in the belief that the Russians will be able to hold the Nazi war machine into the bitter Russian winter. The German High Command, the experts said, foresees the imminence of such a development and is making an all-out effort to gain command of the Black Sea in order to enable it to wage a winter campaign in the Middle East, probably against the Russian and British oil fields in the Baku, Iran and Mosul areas.

Britain and Russia, it was continued, have already foreseen that strategy and are firstly bringing pressure on Iran to eliminate the Nazi elements there, and, secondly, are ferrying United States planes to the Middle East via South America and Africa in order to be prepared for the Nazi campaign.

The United States, the experts said, hoped to ship sufficient planes, explosives and guns to Russia to enable the Russians to hold their present lines along the central and northern sectors, though the Ukraine appears to be lost.