EVEN GREATER EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1941, Page 5

EVEN GREATER EFFORT

DEMANDED OF RUSSIANS BROADCAST BY MARSHAL VOROSHILOV. DUTY OF WIPING OUT NAZI HORDES. LONDON, November 9. Early this morning almost at the hour Germany first attacked Russia 20 weeks ago, Marshal Voroshilov broadcast a fighting message to the.men and women of Russiaitelling them how Hitler would be beaten. He spoke of Hitler’s bad miscalculation and how his timetable had been upset by the mighty resistance of the Russians. Hitler, said Marshal Voroshilov, had paid a heavy price for his temporary successes. He did not spare the blood of his German slaves and the lesson of

Leningrad had not been sufficient for jfjiim. Now near Moscow he was being the same merciless and bloody lesson. The lightning war he had promised his people had now become a terrible slaughter. The activities of Iguerilla units had been a nightmare to the German armies, but the partisan war was only just beginning, said the Marshal. He told the Russian people that, great as their efforts had been, they must be even greater. Nothing must be left undone to ensure that the army, navy and air force could get the necessary equipment to smash the Germans. The enemy had not yet been defeat-, ed said the Marshal. The war would be long and bloody. He appealed for 1 tens of thousands of more women workers to replace the men called to the front." “We are in duty bound to wipe out the German hordes completely. We will fight to destroy them, no matter what their numbers, and as long as is necessary for their destruction. In this task we have the forces of Britain at our side together with the active support of the United States.” a EVACUATION OF HANKO REPORTED BY THE FINNS & VICHY. LONDON, November 7. A report from Helsinki states that the Russians have partially evacuated Hanko, the fortress on the Gulf of Finland, which has held out for so long". The Vichy news agency says that several Soviet convoys, thanks to the work of 50 mine-sweepers, forced their way between 'November 2 and 5 through the Finnish and German minefields off Kronstadt and in other part.s of the Gulf of Finland, and that a large part of the war material in Hanko was afterward embarked. Coastal batteries sank eight Soviet warships, and other ships struck mines.