PLANES FOR RUSSIA
ROUTE BY WAY OF ALASKA & SIBERIA.
NOT FAVOURED AT PRESENT' BY SOVIET, (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, May 21. Russia will not permit the delivery of planes from United States to Siberia via Alaska says the “Daily News” Washington correspondent. The Alaskan bases are prepared and the Army and Air Force ferrying commands are ready to use this route, but the Soviet reaction is not quite sympathetic. President Roosevelt and Mr Cordell Hull are anxious to avoid the longer, more dangerous Murmansk' route. for the planes being sent to Russia, but they understand that the Soviet cannot afford to fight on two fronts, so the route across the Bering Sea is not to be used until the Japanese attack Russia or both the Murmansk and the! Persian Gulf routes.are severed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1942, Page 4
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138PLANES FOR RUSSIA Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1942, Page 4
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