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Evening Star, Issue 25224, 11 July 1944, Page 8

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HOGAN (CASE. The appeal by John Hogan, proprietor and managing editor of ' Democracy,' against the direction ,by the man-power'authorities to employment with the Wellington "Woollen Mills at Petone as a factory worker has been disallowed by No. 2 Wellington Man-power Appeal Committee. —Wellington Press Association. OBITUARY. A Christchnrch message records the death of H. B. Whitta, aged 61. He was a former New Zealand .cricketer and selector. MORE GERMAN GENERALS TAKEN. LONDON, July. 10.—Troops of the second White Russian ' front, east of Minsk, yesterday captured 3,500 Germans. Lieutouant-general 'Muller, acting-commander of the Fourth German Army, and Majorgeneral Klamm, 'commander of the 260th Infantry Division, surrendered with their entire staffs. The Russians south of Lida occupied 80 localities. At Slonim the Russians took prisoner Major - general Schmidt, commander of the Ninth Army's engineering group. Russian troops on the Karelian front 'captured the district centre of litkaranta, on the north-eastern shores off Lake Ladoga, eight miles southeast of Kitela. An air communique states that the Red air force last night made mass raids on the railway junctions of Brest-Litovsk and Orany. NEVER. PEACE WITH STARVATION. Warning of the danger of detachment 'because 'New Zealand was so far removed from the battle theatres was given toy Bishop St. Barbe Holland, opening the Wellington -Diocesan Synod to-day. " Will New Zealand have the moral stature and capacity for greatness to he willing to forego its passion for a higher standard of living to the extent of allowing its rations to be further reduced in order that, midst a world shortage of food and fruits, our New Zealand earth may he used to stave off starvation-in other lands. Man must eat. You can never have peace with starvation.'' One of .the Church's chief duties was to remind the nation that selfish detachment and isolationism must at any cost tj2 exerted from our national thinking. Bishop Holland added that after the war the fight for freedom would enter a new and critical phase. Did not the prospect of State planning and State control over activities suggest that the-evil seed of the New Order had been sown even in freedom-loving countries, and that we might lose the very freedom we. were fighting for ? In all planning they must deliberately make room for freedom of all sorts, including freedom to foliO'.v one's vocation, a free Press, and free association for all purposes, cultural, educational, and religious. —Press Association.