AFFIRMED BY AMBASSADOR IN LONDON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1941, Page 5

AFFIRMED BY AMBASSADOR IN LONDON

Struggle To Be Continued UNTIL HITLERITE GERMANY IS UTTERLY CRUSHED REPORTS OF HEAVY FIGHTING ON ALL FRONTS LONDON, August 31. The Russian Ambassador in London, M. Maisky, has reiterated his country’s determination to continue the struggle until Hitlerite Germany is utterly crushed. The Russian people, he said, were building no half-way house. They would fight to the end. M. Maisky was speaking at an all-party demonstration in support of Russia. The best token of Russia s etermination, he said, was the destruction of the great Dnieper ' Dam. The hearts of millions must have contracted at the news, but the sacrifice was made without reservation. There is an almost complete lack of reliable news about the fighting on the Eastern front, but it is believed in London that fighting has been particularly heavy today. In the central sector the situation is obscure and in Berlin the silence is regarded as disquieting. There are still reports of Russian coun-ter-attacks in this area. Against the Germans’ claim that the Finns have captured Viborg, the Russians are said to be defending the town house by house. In the Karelian Isthmus the enemy is reported to have captured two villages 46 miles north of Leningrad. e Germans, it is said, are finding it hard to induce the Finns to keep up their pressure in this sector, as with the fall of Viborg Finland has attained her war aims. In the Leningrad sector the Germans have claimed no new successes for several days, in either the drive from the south or that from the west. , The Germans are reported to be mining the mouth oi tne Gulf of Finland in an attempt to bottle up the Russian Baltic Fleet. n « • , The Germans partly admit that most of Russia s army m the Ukraine has crossed the Dnieper. The Russians are now launching vigorous counter-attacks back across the river, using a large number of boats. The Germans claim that the attacks are being thrown back. Moscow makes no mention of these Russian papers are urging a drive to increase production. One paper states that the Germans are further away from victory now than they were in 1939. Another says that the loss of 2,000,000 Germans during two months’ fighting in the war with Russia is gTeater than the casualties Germany suffered in the first two years of the 1914-18 war. The mad Fascist heart is bleeding to death, states another paper. It is on the fields of Russia that the issue is being decided.