RUSSIAN AIMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23809, 9 November 1940, Page 12

RUSSIAN AIMS

EXTENDED FRONTIEES

"WORLD MUST ACQUIESCE"

RELATIONS WITH JAPAN

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON, Nov. 7 A message from. Moscow.says that Marshal Timoshenko, Defence Commissar, in a speech at Lenin's Tomb in the presence of Stalin and Molovtoff, said the frontiers of Soviet Russia had been expanded by peaceful solution of external problems—the return of Bessarabia and Bukovina, and the incorporation of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. "The world will have to acquiesce in that expansion," Marshal Timoshenko added. Russia must remember Stalin's orders to be constantly in a state of mobilisation and to see that she was not taken unawares. "Such an army could smash any enemy," said the radio announcer when units of the Bed Army marched past Lenin's Tomb for SO minutes. A message from Tokio says that the Foreign .Minister, Mr. Matsuoka, the Minister of War, Lieut.-General lojo, Admiral Okiawa and other, members of. the Cabinet attended the 23rd anniversary celebration of the Russian revolution at the Soviet Embassy tonight. Hitherto, high Japanese officials have seldom visited the Embassy, and the party was the first since the conclusion of the anti-Comintern Pact four yeais ago. CLEARING DEBRIS WORK OF PIONEER CORPS WRECKAGE IN LONDON * "MUD LIKE FLANDERS" (Received November, 8, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless LONDON. Nov. 7 Brawny navvies are working shoulder to shoulder with clerks in spectacles to clear the debris caused by bombs dropped on London. A press representative had the opportunity of seeing in south London the sterling work of these men of the Pioneer Corps, between the ages of IS and 50, who are drawn from every walk of lile. A tour of several bombed areas was designed to show the methodical stages in the clearance, from littered piles of debris to spick and span sites on which neat piles of bricks, timber, lead piping, etc., are stacked —each collection of piles representing the salvable remains of a house.

While these men of the Pioneer Corps, who, as Mr.. Churchill recently said, are as much part of His Majesty's Forces as the King's Company of Grenadier Guards, are working to repair the nightly damage, London's civilians also play their part. In one area a clergyman's wife, Mrs. Mackenzie, and her two daughters, aged seven and 10, were providing tea, cake and biscuits for the workers. "They have been doing this twice a day for 10 days," said the officer in charge. How this voluntary canteen sen-ice, including 100 cups of tea a day, is possible was explained by Mrs. Mackenzie, who said she had laid in for personal use a small stock of tea and sugar, as advised by the Government before the "blitzkrieg." \

I A tragic sight was a bedstead hanging against chimney tops, where sleeping women had been blown and killed. "This mud is like Flanders, isn't it?" said one worker during a pause. Yet in a very short space of time each site is cleared ready for better rebuilding when the might of the Eoyal Air Force has put an end to these inhuman assaults on Londoners' homes and lives. DRAMATIC RESCUE ENTOMBED UNDER DEBRIS CANARY GUIDES HELPERS (Received November 8, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, Nor. 7 Wedged in a crevice under twisted girders and debris, a canary saved the lives of nine people under a bombed London tenement. The trapped inhabitants were too exhausted to cry out but the canary's song guided the wardens who rescued the nine survivors and brought out six bodies.

Five more people were believed to be under the wreckage. Then a faint cry from another part of the wreckage revealed more life. Members of the Auxiliary Fire Service dug down and brought out a small boy, begrimed but undaunted, after 10 hours under the debris.

This bombing wiped out a whole family named Cook —a mother, four sons and one daughter. ST. DUNSTAN'S HIT HARDSHIP FOR THE BLIND (Received November 8, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless LONDON, Nov. 7 The latest achievement of the German air force in the air attack on Britain is the infliction of hardship on blind people. It is rtow learned that during a recent air raid on London a direct hit was scored on St. Dunstan's, the world-famous institution for the care of the blind. The result of this senseless attack has been the temporary suspension of '.'talking books" for the blind, owing to the damage caused to the specially-fitted studio.

WOOL FOR MILITARY LARGE AMERICAN NEEDS FOREIGN SORTS PERMITTED NEW YORK. Nov. 7 The United States War Department has opened the way for larger importations of wool by suspension of the requirement that only domestic wool shall he used in military orders for clothing and blankets. It is said that the domestic wool supply is not able to meet the abnormally largo requirements of the defence programme in all grade wool for military equipment, therefore the quarter-master-general has been authorised to accept bids for material manufactured entirely of foreign wool or mixed foreign and domestic wools.