AID FOR RUSSIA
POSSIBILITIES OF FUTURE BRITISH ACTION IMMEDIATE & LONG-TERM PLANS. ■f THE MISSIONS TO MOSCOW. LONDON, September 16. “The Times,’’ in a leading article, says: “It is good news that the Royal Air Force is already operating on the Russian front and also that the Moscow conference is being held without delay. This conference, however, is concerned with long-term supplies, and is there nothing more we can do in the meantime to meet the immediate danger? “There is some evidence that Germany is sending to Russia her seasoned troops from the occupied countries and replacing them with raw recruits and middle-aged reservists. Is it beyond the bounds of possibility to check this movement of reinforcements?”
The military correspondent of “The Times” says it is now established that approximately 20 German divisions (about 300,000 men) have been removed from France since the preparations for the campaign against Russia first began and it is . estimated that about the same number of divisions remain in occupied France. From No. 10 Downing Street the following statement was issued last night: “Lord Beaverbrook (Minister of Supply) will be in charge of the British mission to Moscow. The mission will include the members ,of the British military mission that is already in Moscow —Lieutenant-General F. N. Mason-Macfarlane, head of this mission in Moscow, and Rear-Admiral G. J. A. Miles and Air Vice-Marshal A. C. Collier, heads of the naval and air sections of the mission. “The members of the mission accompanying Lord Beaverbrook will be Captain Balfour (Air Under-Secre-tary), Major-General (Acting Lieuten-ant-General) Sir Hastings Ismay (senior staff officer), and Major-General Macready (deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff). “The following members of the United States mission to Moscow have arrived in London: Mr W. Averell, Admiral W. H. Standley, Major-Gen-eral O. H. Burns, and Mr W. M. Batt, of the Office of Production Management. LORD BEAVERBROOK’S CALL. Lord Beaverbrook sent the following telegram yesterday to all factories where tanks and tank parts are being made: “To all workers in tank factories: The call is for the utmost output. From now on the tank factories of this country must supply not only the armies of Britain but also the needs of Russia, whose soldiers today i fight in the same shining cause. "From Monday next, therefore, and for the space of seven days, the work of-your hands will be sent to the front lines defending Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa. There (will be more to come, but the tanks you build inext week will go forthwith into action to play their part in the battle. “Now, come, men in the factories and forges of Britain, in the engine works and assembly lines, to the task and duty of helping Russia repel the savage invaders, who bring torment and torture to mankind.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1941, Page 5
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