BLITZ FORESEEN

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 250, 20 July 1942, Page 5

BLITZ FORESEEN

All-Out British Aid To Soviet TANKS AND PLANES '(British Official Wireless.) (Received July 19, 8 p.m.) RUGBY, July 18. The Minister of Production, Captain Lyttleton, speaking at the inauguration of the Anglo-Soviet week at Aidershot, said we might be witnessing the moment of the maximum effort of the German war machine against Russia. The German blow had been foreseen by Russia and Britain and both nations had done their utmost to prepare against it. Britain had not allowed considerations of her own safety to stand in the way of supplies to Russia. Everything promised had been sent. Tanks had been shipped at the rate of 50 a week, and she bad actually sent 111 aircraft for every 100 promised. They had been sent in spite of urgent demands for supplies for the Middle East and the preparation of a field force in Britain. If the Germans were able to turn south and seize some of the Russian oil, they would be strengthened for a long war. Captain Lyttleton declared that Britain never stood in graver peril since the days of the Battle for Britain than now, and the next 80 days till the beginning of the Russian winter would be- some of the gravest ever faced.