PLANES NEEDED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24050, 22 August 1941, Page 7

PLANES NEEDED

SOVIET AIR FORCE MOSCOW'S DEFENCES CURTAIN OF FIRE (Kecd. H. 15 p.m.) LONDON, August *2O The correspondent of a Swiss newspaper emphasises that Soviet airmen are performing wonders and have not lost control of vital spots in the air, but the despatch of hundreds of aeroplanes from America md Britain is an urgent necessity. In spite of the intense air raids on Moscow, it appears from all reliable -ourees of information that the Luftwaffe has not succeeded in wreaking the essential havoc on the Russian capital that they desired. For the first time since Germany attacked Russia information is being given freely to the British Mission in Moscow. According to this information the German failure is due to the barrage Moscow has put up on an almost unprecedented scale. Moscow anti-aircraft gunners have hurled into the air such a wall of fire that the Germans have been literally unable to penetrate in any force to the citv itself. « The opinion is expressed in London that there is no evidence of a shortage of German air crews or aeroplanes, but it is evident that the German High Command is throwing everything possible into the battle having due regard to necessary defences on the Western Front. A message from Washington says Mr. Jesse .Jones, Secretary of Commerce, said the United States may «ssist Russia to purchase war supplies with direct loans rather than under the i.end-or-Lease scheme, il Russia's cash >s exhausted. Russian aeroplanes were again over northern Germany last night. This is admitted by Berlin, which states that the machines came in along the Baltic coast. The Germans as usual claim that •m damage was done.

FOUGHT WAY OUT ENCIRCLED SOVIET ARMY LONDON, August 'JO It is announced in Moscow that a Bussian army, under General Boldin, lias rejoined Marshal Timoshenko's main forces on the central front after being surrounded for 45 days westward of Minsk. The army fought bitterly without a spell and finally hacked its way through the German lines, HOTELS NOW HOSPITALS 'Herri. 7.50 p.m.) BERLIN, August 21 Tim German newspaper Frankfurter Zoitung urges Germans to postpone their holidays until the winter, explaining: "Several hundred thousand hospital beds have been installed in numerous hotels and they are not available for occasional visitors."