FEELING IN RUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 29, 3 August 1942, Page 5

FEELING IN RUSSIA

PRESS AND OTHER COMMENTS

(Rec. 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 2. For the first time since the AngloSoviet treaty was signed, the Russian. Press and radio referred to the agitation in England and America for a second front. Russian newspapers and broadcasts contained two long dispatches from London and New York reporting speeches and demonstrations. The Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that the "Isvestia" and the "Pravda" continue to reiterate that Russia has borne the brunt of the war ice thirteen months. They say that thoughtful Russians undoubtedly believe England and America should be doing more .than bombing Germany and sending aid to Russia. The man in the street is convinced that the greatest aid England and America can give Russia is by creating a second front or at least attempting to do so. A meeting* of athletes in Moscow unanimously endorsed the sending of a message to England and America stating: "The Germans are still advancing but have been forced to withdraw considerable forces from the west. Now is not the time to wait Not only from the air must you scourge Germany; let your tanks, artillery, and planes charge the enemy in the wake of your bombers." All the Russian radio stations broadcast the resolution.

A Stockholm message report* th,# the Germans staged extensive exercises on the western coast of Norway, particularly at Kristiansund and southwest of Trondheim, with the object of "repelling the invader." Civil navigation and fishing were banned during the manoeuvres.