HELP FOR RUSSIANS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 17, 20 July 1942, Page 5

HELP FOR RUSSIANS

BRITAIN KEEPS HER PROMISES

RUGBY, July 18. The Minister of Production, Mr. Oliver Lyitelton, speaking at the inauguration of Anglo-Soviet Weelt at Aldershot, said that Britain might be witnessing the moment of 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 had 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. Mr. Lyttelton declared that Britain had never stood in graver peril since the days of the Battle for Britain than now, and that the next 80 days till the beginning of the Russian winter ■would be among the gravest ever faced.—B.O.W.