RALLYING CALL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1941, Page 5

RALLYING CALL

SOUNDED BY SOVIET WORKERS GREETING TO BRITISH OPPOSITE NUMBERS. UNITY FOR EXTERMINATION OF FASCISM. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, October 29. The following message of greeting to those engaged in war industry, in Britain has been received from the war workers of the Soviet Union: “Our Red Army is heroically fighting brutal Fascism. We Soviet people are working selflessly to help destroy Fascism, that worst enemy of entire humanity. We call upon the working men and women of Britain to strengthen the United front of the liberty-loving nations, to help the Soviet with arms until the complete extermination of Fascism has been achieved.” The message is signed by ten workers, including “two Heroes of Socialist Labour,” the president of the Central Committee of the Union of Workers in Heavy Industry and the secretary of the Central Committee of the Union of Workers in Munitions Industry. NAZI REPORT CAPTURE OF PRISONERS CLAIMED. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, October 29. The German High Command says: “In severe fighting, infantry divisions with the collaboration of the Air Force, forced an entrance to the Crimean Peninsula, after breaking through strongly-constructed defences. Fighting lasted from October 18 to October 28. Some 15,700 Russians were taken prisoner.” A German communique says: “Our allied troops in the Donetz basin are successfully continuing their pursuit of the retreating enemy. The. Spanish Blue Division, in the northern sector, in encircling attacks, took several localities. A large number of prisoners were captured. Strong bomber formations yesterday and last night bombed Moscow and caused large fires and explosions. Other attacks were made against Leningrad.”