LANDING IN FRANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1943, Page 4

LANDING IN FRANCE

AT AN EARLY DATE PREDICTED IN LONDON. STATEMENT OF RUSSIAN VIEW. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 16. The latest Allied moves suggest strongly that an invasion of Europe will be launched across the Channel, and not in the Mediterranean area, say London observers. A statement in Quebec yesterday by the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King, is interpreted to mean that the Allies plan to land on the coast of France. Referring to the Churchill-Roosevelt conference at Quebec, Mr Mackenzie King said: “It is fitting that the liberation of France should, be decided and planned in this French city.” The London correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper “Tidningn” says all is ready for a real second front, in which Britain and America will stake all they have. There are no longer any excuses. Europe is ripe for a second front as never before and all the Allies are ready to create it. The British are in a mood to win or lose all, but it is not certain whether the Allied experts at Quebec are of the same opinion.” M. Yaroslavsky, one of the chief editors of the “Pravda” and also a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, speaking over the Moscow radio, declared that: “The routing of the German divisions at Orel, Byelgorod and Karachev, and in the battles for Kharkov, has created a situation in which a serious blow from the west would greatly speed up the end of Hitlerite Germany. The Red Army is entitled to expect the Allies to develop an active offensive on the European continent, just as a fighting unit expects seme long-promised reinforcements.”