SECOND FRONT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1942, Page 4

SECOND FRONT

THE ALLIED POSITION NOT UNDERSTOOD IN RUSSIA. AUTHORITATIVE STATEMENT SUGGESTED.

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, October 11. After another week, in which the newspapers and radios in Russia, and also Russian news sheets abroad, have continued to give prominence to the subject of a second front, Reuter’s Moscow correspondent says it has become clear that the Russians are unable to understand the considerations determining the Anglo-American decisions cn strategy, especially regarding the opening of a second front. A statement from an authoritative British or American leader appears most desirable to prevent what looks like the further deevlopment of a fundamental misunderstanding. The “Pravda,” after comparing the British and American shipbuilding figures with the announced tonnage of losses, declared: “The German propaganda, that lack of tonnage is curbing the Allies’ expansion of war operations, is worth nothing. On the contrary, the facts confirm the assertions of the British and American Press that the Allied losses are much exceeded by a ceaseless string of new merchantmen.