Twenty-Five Years Ago
The American State Department announced that the one concern of the United States was the conceding of her demands as a neutral Power. Otherwise, charges of violation of international law made by Britain and. Germany ivere no concern of America. Russia’s gradual retirement from Augustowo was officially reported.'ln the Wyszkow region , where sanguinary fighting was raging, the Russians made prisoner 2000 of the enemy. Massed counter attacks by the Germans in the Carpathians were repulsed. On the Eastern Front , the Germans developed a simultaneous attack along a seven hundredmile front. First news wuS received of the big Russian defeat in the Mazurian Lakes district, where 150,000 of their troops ivere scattered. The Russians, in this conflict, ivere outnumbered more than two to ■ one.
Special war dramas were screening at Whangarei picture theatres, Ford Sterling drawing big o,udiences to the Britannia.
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Northern Advocate, 21 February 1940, Page 4
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