RUSSIAN FRONT LULL

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1944, Page 5

RUSSIAN FRONT LULL

HEAVY SNOWFALL

(Rec. 11.50) LONDON, Nov. 8. The first heavy snowfalls of the season on the front were reported today, says Reuter’s Moscow correspondent. There was also snow in Moscow to-day. It is disclosed here that there are now four newly-formed German tank divisions in East Prussia. Thousands of East Prussians have been recalled from the Western Front and Italy to help defend the threshhold to the Reich. The resumption of the offensive against Budapest is believed to be imminent.

The Exchange Telegraph Agency’s Moscow correspondent says the latest reports from the Baltic front state the Russians launched a combined land and air assault designed to destroy the German divisions trapped in Latvia between Libau and Tukums.

MEN LEAVING BUDAPEST

(Rec. 1.30) LONDON, November 8. For the third successive day a Soviet communique reports no material , ~”’> changes along the whole front. •? The “Daily Telegraph” says that a the Hungarian War Minister, Gen- J eral Bereczky, ordered the evacuation g of men aged 16 to 50 from Budapest, j-j ‘which might become a war zone, and 5 the men remaining are likely to be jf forced to work by the Russians.” J The men are instructed to assemble & at fixed points. Their destination is j not stated. Men are warned they * should be prepared for hardships, g “Most of the journey will have to be £ on foot.” » CHURCHILL-EDEN MESSAGES.

RUGBY, November 7. ' Mr. Churchill, ‘in a message to Mr. Stalin on the occasion of the Soviet National Day to-day, says: “It gives me great pleasure to send you my congratulations on the anniversary of the foundation of the Soviet State. I wish your country and yourself all success, in peace as in war, and pray that the Anglo-Soviet alliance may be the cause of much benefit to our two countries, to the United Nations, and to the world.” The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden), in a message to the Soviet Foreign Commissar (Mr. Molotov), says: “I have particular pleasure this year in . conveying to you on behalf of the British Government a message of "ood wishes on the occasion of the Soviet National Day. This is the most memorable year in the alliance of our two countries. To the victories of the Red Army in the east have been added the victories of the Allied armies in the west. Our common enemy by these events has been brought to the verge of final defeat and a last supreme effort will suffice for his overthrow. Meanwhile, the meeting at Moscow has strengthened and deepened the friendship between the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the United States, on ‘ which the future happiness of mankind in so large a measure depends. I know that the people of Great Britain are at one with the British Government in wishing the Soviet neople and the armed forces of the Soviet Union success and prosperity for the future.”