PERSISTENT APPEALS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1942, Page 3

PERSISTENT APPEALS

FOR SECOND LAND FRONT MADE BY RUSSIANS. MOSCOW RADIO ON HITLER'S TRUMP CARD. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON,September 24. The Russians are persistently putting out appeals for a second front. The “Soviet War News,” which is the daily Press sheet issued from the Soviet Embassy in London, says: The Battle of Britain has. shown that air blows would not force the enemy to capitulate. Britain is now fully armed. The Royal Air Force rules.the skies, the Navy is stronger than at the outbreak of the war, and Britain has the opportunity to deliver a blow against the enemy.” M. Ilya Ehrenburg, the Soviet author and journalist, in an article in “Soviet War News,” says: “France is ready to burst its banks like a river in spring. The French do not want to bide their time for a favourable opportunity. With or without ships, and without the Allies, France can no longer wait for zero hour is striking.” The Moscow radio says: “All the world can see that 15 months after the outbreak of the Russian-German war the Nazis are still- pursuing their strategy undisturbed without having to worry about the West. Hitler’s trump card has been his ability to deal with his enemes one by one. The card must be knocked from his hand. “The Battle of Stalingrad is also a battle for Burnley, Rochdale, New York, and Baltimore.” COMMUNIST PARTY DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON. September 25. The immediate opening of a second front was demanded by Communist Party leaders at a large demonstration in Union Square. The party secretary asserted that a great majority of American soldiers, both privates and officers, wanted a second front immediately. ..