NOTHING SUBSTANTIAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 193, 17 July 1941, Page 7

NOTHING SUBSTANTIAL

} VIEW OF NAZI GAINS. 7 A PYRRHIC VICTORY. " (United Press Association —Copyright) (Rec. 9.15 a.m.) RUGBY, July 16. ; Competent military observers in 5 London believe the Germans, after nearly four weeks’ fighting on the Eastern Front, have achieved r nothing that can bo reckoned as ■ t a final or even substantial advantage. 5 Observers add that, unless the Ger- ■ mans can go considerably further, their onslaught will not be worth the cx--1 penditure of the men and machines ! they have made. 1 “It is only fair to say there is deep 1 admiration here for the Russians in the fight they have already put up,”. 1 says one observer. ' The midday Russian communique ’ states: “In the course of last night fighting continued in the Pskov, ’ Poskliov, Polotsk, and Vitebsk direc--1 tions. In other directions and sectors of the front no major engagements ' took place and no substantial changes occurred in the position of our troops. ’ “During the night our air force acted against enemy motorised and mc- \ chanised troops, apd continued the bombing of the Ploesti oilfields. Large j fires broke out as a result of the bombardment.”—Official Wireless. DEEDS NOT~ WORDS. BRITAIN AND ALLIES. (Rec. 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, July 16. Asked in the House of Commons if he would publish the treaties of alliance between Britain and her Allies, j the Foreign Secretary (Mr Eden) said the only treaty of alliance is the Anglo-| Polish agreement regarding mutual assistance, signed in London on August 25, 1939, and already published. Mr Eden added: “It will, however, be recalled that, in a resolution unanimously adopted at the iuter-Allied j meeting in London on June 12, the j Governments -epresented were de-' scribed as being engaged together in. i the fight against aggression, and tlie.yj agree to continue the struggle against j the German or Italian aggressor until! victory, is won, and to mutually assist each other in the struggle to the utmost of their respective capacities. “No formal treaties are, indeed, necessary to express the close tiesj of friendship which bind the Allied; peoples and which are finding expression in deeds rather than words.”—Official Wireless.