AID TO RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 295, 10 September 1941, Page 7

AID TO RUSSIA

Claimed Hopelessly Inadequate ROUTE THROUGH IRAN

(Received Sept. 10, 12.10 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 9. British and American tanks and planes and other war matei ial which are arriving through Iran for Russia’s southern front are described as hopelessly insufficient for the battles which are now being fought on a scale which the British people seem incapable of comprehending. * Sending this news from Stockholm to the “Daily Telegraph,” its correspondent warns: Unless sufficient aid arrives quickly Hitler may, through Allied dilatoriness, pull’off the riskiest gamble in his career.” VOLGA GERMANS New Settlement Areas LONDON, September 8. The Moscow decree ordering, the resettlement in Siberia of the population of the German Volga Republic was signed by the President, M. Kalium, at the Kremlin. It states: “According to reliable information received by the military authorities, there are thousands—even tens of thousands —of diversionlsts and spies among the German population of the Volga region who are prepared to cause explosions at a signal 'from Germany. No German living there has reported their presence, and therefore the German population are covering up the enemies of the Soviet people. “The Soviet Government would oe forced to adopt measures of reprisal if diversionist acts were committed ana bloodshed occurred, and therefore it finds it necessary to resettle the entire population of the Volga region in other regions. * “Those who are resettled will be given land in the Novosibirsk and Omsk- districts and also in the Altai region, and in’the Kazak Republic, where the land is rich aud fertile. They Will also receive State aid for establishing themselves in the new regions.” About 60 per cent, of the 600,000 inhabitants of this Volga republic are Germans and the remainder are Russians and Ukrainians. ALLIES AT RUSSIAN OPERA LONDON, September 8. Reuter’s correspondent says that when the opera season opened in Moscow last night British and Allied uniforms were prominent in the audience, including a whole array of R.A.F. uniforms.