WHERE BRITAIN STANDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 102, 27 October 1941, Page 7

WHERE BRITAIN STANDS

Attitude to Peace Offers

(Rec. noon.) NEW YORK Oct. 26. Mr. C. R. Attlee, who has arrived to attend the International Labour Organisation conference, was asked how Britain would react to a peace offer in the event of disaster on the Eastern Front. He replied: "We should stand exactly as we stood a year ago, when we stood alone, without Russia as an ally."

not bother to use their guns; they simply drove at full speed into the column, flattening each vehicle and rolling on to the next. The German anti-tank guns had no time to fire, and many of the troops had no time to jump from the lorries, and were crushed to death.

German bombers from a nearby aerodrome circled over the column for two hours, attempting to halt the tanks with bombs, but the Russians swept on through the inferno into the village of "P," where they smashed the German headquarters and motor-cyclists and machine-gunners. The tanks then tore on northwards, past the villages of "M" and "T," fighting all the way, and penetrated into Kalinin.

Eight tanks broke into Kalinin and continued 'to fight in narrow streets. They created such panic that the Germans blew up all the bridges on the southern approaches to the town. One tank swept across the town like a hurricane and rejoined the Russian forces at the northern end.

Other Russian tank groups, the correspondent says, carried out similar exploits. One crushed three anti-tank guns, cut through a column of lorries, smashing 25 of them, and then drove on to an aerodrome. German bombers started to take off, but the Russian tank stopped the first by crashing into its tail, and then shot down a second while it was taking off. The remainder of the bombers got off and immediately showered the tanks with bombs.