UNEASY TENURE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1942, Page 3

UNEASY TENURE

GERMANS IN BALTIC STATES ANGLING FOR SUPPORT. EFFECT OF RECENT RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, February 26. According to Stockholm reports, the effect of recent Russian successes is distinctly noticeable in Latvia and Estonia. The Germans feel that the successful prosecution of the Russian thrusts threaten not only the whole Leningrad campaign but may also make the German tenure of the Baltic States uneasy. The Germans are already adjusting their methods to suit their changing prospects and are angling for the support of Estonians and Latvians for the German cause. Both peoples dislike the cause, desiring their own liberty, and are distrustful of the Germans, who previously dangled the bait of independence, but after their occupation of the States, began incorporating both countries into the German colony of Ostland without any semblance of local autonomy. The Germans last week informed Estonians that they could openly celebrate their national day, using their own flag, and could make speeches about liberty and inde-' pendence. RUSSIAN GENERAL FORMER RAILWAY WORKER. MOSCOW, February 27. The 40-year-old Lieutenant-General Pavel Alexayevich Kurochking, who has succeeded Marshal Voroshilov in the command of the north-western sector of the central front, directed the encirclement of the Sixteenth German Army at Staraya Russa. He began work at 12 and was a railway worker

in Saint Petersburg in 1917. He then joined the Red Army and fought in the Finnish war, being awarded the Order of Lenin.