SOVIET CALL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 204, 28 August 1943, Page 5

SOVIET CALL

"REAL SECOND FRONT" Invasion Of Italy Is Not Sufficient N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. noon. LONDON, Aug. 27. The invasion of Italy would not be a second front, declared the foreign commentator of the Soviet Army newspaper Red Star. "After the Allied landing in Sicily Germany did not increase the number of her divisions in Italy. Everything goes to show that the Germans will continue the 'same tactics during the further development of Allied action in Italy. The Germans will try to conduct a drawn-out defence with small forces. "Even now, when confronting the imminent danger of hostilities against Italy," the newspaper adds, "the German High Command is keeping a minimum number of divisions in Italy. A real second front is needed. If the Germans felt there was imminent danger of an Allied invasion against the west they would hold at least 100 divisions for their defence line from the North Sea to the Bay of Biscay, not 45 divisions.

SINISTER FOES Many German Scientists Killed At Peenemunde EFFECTIVE R.A.F. BOMBING Rec. noon. LONDON, Aug. 27. Many of Germany's outstanding scientists and scores of highly-skilled technicians are believed to have been killed in the R.A.F. raid on Peenemunde on August 17, when 41 bombers were reported missing. The aviation writer of the Daily Mail says the scientists and technicians working at Peenemunde were sinister, dangerous and personal foes of every Allied airman. They are irreplaceable and the plans for the raid had these backroom boys" very much in mind. The first hint of the success of the raid was given by Berlin radio in an announcement next day that General Chamierglisezenski, inventor of many of Germany s secret weapons, had met with a fatal aC Evfdence to support the belief that many of his colleagues suffered a similar fate on the night raid has been provided by pictures of the bomb damage at Peenemunde.

JEWS EXTERMINATED

More Than 3,000,000 Destroyed By Hitler Regime

STARVATION AND MURDERS

Rec. 11 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 27. Thp Tewish "population of Euiope, Which was 8,300,000 when Hitler came to power, has been reduced by 5 000,000 as the result of his war a^The t Institute of Jewish Affairs ffives these figures in a long survey. More than 3,000,000 Jews have been ripqtroved by planned starvation, forced labour, deportations, Pogroms "a methodical muraers. About 1 800 000 Jews were saved by migration to the Soviet.

archbishop killed

AIR DISASTER IN BRAZIL,

Rec . 11. RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 27. THiehteen persons were killed and three injured when an air liner struck the naval academy building while taking off from Santos Dumont airportin a fog. Those killed include the Archbish' .> otSao Paulo.