SHEFFIELD’S GIFT

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3111, 27 April 1942, Page 6

SHEFFIELD’S GIFT

CASKET TO STALINGRAD ONE STEEL CITY TO ANOTHER In a steel casket designed by a Sheffield craftswoman, greetings have been sent from Britain’s steel city to Stalingrad, its “opposite number” in Russia.

Thousands- of Sheffield signatures, from bishops to steel moulders, have been appended to the message in which the British city pledges itself to the peopl of Stalingrad to play its part in achieving a maximum output and so ensure the fullest use of its resources to speed the victory over Hitlerite Germany. Produced under the auspices of Sheffield’s Anglo-Soviet Union, whose object is friendship between the British and Soviet peoples, the casket containing the greeting bears the city’s arms, flanked by the British lion on one side and the Soviet hammer and sickle on the other, with inscriptions in Englishi and Russian. Apart from the silver and enamelled shield, the casket is made entirely in stainless steel.