RED AIR FORCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1941, Page 6

RED AIR FORCE

GROWING IN STRENGTH HOURLY REPLY TO VAIN NAZI BOAST. BUT STILL MORE PLANES NEEDED. (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, September 9. “The “Pravda,” while stressing the slogan “More bombers, more fighters,” recalls that Germany in the first week of the war claimed that the Soviet Air Force had been wiped out, but the “Pravda” declares: “The Air Force is not only alive, but is growing in strength hourly. The production of planes is so well planned and the types so brilliantly conceived, that the man responsible has earned the admiration of the Russian people.”

TITLE OF CZAR PUPPET ASPIRANT AT HAND. HANGER-ON AT HITLER’S HEADQUARTERS. (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, September 9. The Grand Duke Cyril, of Russia, who, after the death of the Grand Duke Nicholas, proclaimed himself Emperor of all the Russias, is at present at Hitler’s headquarters on the Eastern Front, with his son, the Grand Duke Vladimir, > whom Hitler is reported to be intending to proclaim Czqr of the Ukraine. Reporting this, the British United Press Zurich correspondent says it is regarded as significant that new German maps of Russia are again bearing the old Czarist nqrpes.