SECOND EDITION RUSH TO ENLIST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24000, 25 June 1941, Page 8

SECOND EDITION RUSH TO ENLIST

RUSSIAN ENTHUSIASM

i GERMAN SCHEDULE

VICTORY IN TEN DAYS py Telegraph—Prpss Association —Copyright fßcrd. 1.45 a.m.) LONDON, June _> 1

A great stirring-up throughout Uussia is indicated from various sources. Crowds cheer departing Foldiers from the stations and rousing marches are played. The public of Moscow see companies marching along the wide boulevards, and men, including many over military age. rush to enlist.

Women are reported to be besieging fa ctories offering to replace husbands who have been called up. Anti-Nazi films, banned since the Rosso-German non-aggression pact., are reappearing in the cinemas.

The newspaper Pravda stirs up the workers, saying it is well known that Hitler's new order consists of oppression of the working masses of whole countries, while Germany herself is a great concentration camp. M. Rytchkoff, Commissar of Justice, has ordered short shrift for saboteurs, with whom he states military tribunals will deal within 24 hours.

According to Zurich reports, the W ilhelmstrasse is saying that the German army must fight Russia in order later to attack the British Isles in full force, nnd that the High Command is confident of beating the Red Army within 10 days or at the most a fortnight. It has been discovered that the official Nazi newspaper Volkischer Beobachter, On the actual day hostilities began, Faid: "England has tried by every means to incite Russia against Nazism, hut Hitler and Molotoff are far too clever. England will never have the pleasure of seeing Russia and Germany fighting each othpr."

BRITISH AID ACCEPTED

RECIPROCAL BASIS LONDON, June 24 The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, to-day made an important statement in the House of Commons on British policy toward Russia. In the course of it he revealed that the Soviet had accepted the British offer of military and economic assistance, fie said that the Soviet Government had made it plain that the voluntary co-operation ahead would be on a mutual and reciprocal basis. Mr. Eden said the Finnish Government had declared its attitude in the present conflict would continue to be purely defensive.