DAYS OF PERIL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1942, Page 3

DAYS OF PERIL

NAZIS MAKING MAXIMUM EFFORT MR OLIVER LYTTELTON’S WARNING. RISKS TAKEN IN SUPPLYING RUSSIA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 18. The Minister of Production, Mr Oliver Lyttelton, speaking at the inauguration of the Anglo-Soviet week at Aidershot, said we might be witnessing the moment of the maximum effort of the Ger- ( man war machine against Russia. The German blow had been foreseen . by Russia and Britain, and both nations had done their utmost to prepare against it. Britain had not allowed consideration of her own safety to stand in the way of supplies to Russia. Everything promised had been sent. Tanks had been shipped at the rate of 50 a week, and she had actually sent .111 airciaft foi every 100 promised. They had been sent in spite of urgent demands for supplies for the Middle East, and the preparation of a field force in Britain. If the Germans were able to turn south and seize some of the Russian oil, they would be strengthened for a long war. , Mr Lyttelton declared that Britain had never stood in graver peril since the days of the Battle for Britain than now, and ■‘he next 80 days till the beginning of the Russian winter would be some of the gravest ever faced.