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IN HELPING RUSSIA DISCUSSION IN LONDON. FACTORS OF PRODUCTION & TRANSPORT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 28. The chief subject of discussion and comment in the Sunday Press, as it has been recently in the,daily newspapers, is the question of British help for the Russian ally. A distinguished writer in the “Sunday Times” defines the extent and categories of such aid. “What we can do we are doing to prevent Russia from being conquered —to enable her to hold out and turn defeat into ultimate victory,” he states. “Besides blockading her enemies by sea and bombing them from the air. and apart from some R.A.F. co-opera-tion on Russian soil, this involves three main things:— “First, keeping the sea open so that the supplies of equipment and other necessities may reach her. “Secondly, ourselves manufacturing for her a part of what she needs. “Thirdly, guarding, or opening up by military action or engineering, or both, avenues along which supplies may reach her. “The first means that the gigantic task of our navy is shared in now by our air force.
“The second means that whereas we had. strained every nerve to make aircraft and tanks for our own forces we now have to make them, in vast numbers foi' Russia as well, a tax on our strength which we cannot dream of, refusing but which, neverthless, inevitably must strain us to the limit. “The third may be illustrated by what we have done and shall do in Iran and Iraq—the military steps which we have taken and engineering steps which we are going to take —to open up an avenue of supply to Russia from the Persian Gulf. “Over and above these direct aids to Russia come our direct blows against Russia's enemy. These take two main forms: the blockade by sea and the bombing offensive by air. The blockade is, of course, complemented by Russia’s land blockade on the oast."
BRITISH AIRCRAFT SUCCESSES ON RUSSIAN FRONT. LONDON, September 29. An Air Ministry communique reports R.A.F. successes on the Eastern Front. Reports show that up to the night of September 27 12 German planes had been destroyed for the loss of one R.A.F. machine. OPENED AT MOSCOW THREE-POWER CONFERENCE. I British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, September 29. The three-power conference, between the Soviet. Britain and the United States, opened this afternoon in Moscow, with M. Molotov presiding. ENEMY LOSSES SOME DETAIL PARTICULARS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, September 29. A supplementary Russian communique states: “On September 27 our troops inflicted heavy losses in one sector on the southern front to the 2nd and 4th Rumanian Brigades. Some 2,500 enemy soldiers and officers were killed. Incomplete figures show that our troops in this fighting captured 300 soldiers, 47 guns, two tanks, many
machine-guns and rifles, as well as a large quantity of ammunition. Our troops are continuing to inflict losses on the enemy in this sector. “In one sector on the north-west front our Air Force destroyed 47 motor-cars and throe gun batteries. They also routed three enemy battalions. “In another sector of the north-west front, our Air Force destroyed 30 tanks and 40 motor-cars and routed a company of infantry. “In one sector on the .south-west front our Air Force destroyed 60. cars, several guns and machine-guns. Ten enemy planes were shot down in the same sector. “In a sector on the north-west front. 500 Finnish soldiers have been killed during the last two days. Our troops captured three guns, fifteen machineguns and ammunition.” ENEMY HELD AT POLTAVA AND IN CRIMEA. HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY. September 29. The latest information reaching London shows that severe fighting continues on all parts of the Russian front. The Germans continue to be held up in an area near Poltava and in the Crimea. Numbers of heavy enemy air attacks have been made on communications in the Crimea, on both railways and roads, but the Germans appear to have made very little or no progress on the isthmus. A Russian communique slates: “During last night we angaged the enemy in fighting along the entire front.”
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