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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24739, 16 October 1941, Page 8

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NEW GERMAN DRIVE NORTH-WEST OF MOSCOW LONDON, Oct. 15. A new German drive has started from a city 100 miles north-west of Moscow, on the railway to Leningrad. It is a city of 145,000 inhabitants, and in one of the largest industrial centres in the Upper Volga Basin. This thrust is endangering the communications between the capital and Leningrad, and it may be that the enemy is trying to out•flank the capital. BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE BAD EFFECT ON NEUTRAL OPINION ISTANBUL; Oct. 15. Turkish newspapers are saying that " Britain's failure to establish a second front against Germany is having a bad effect on neutral opinion. Britain's failure to bomb Berlin regularly is also having a harmful effect. It is also believed that Britain and America cannot give effective help •to Russia before March." ADVICE TO UNITED STATES "BE PREPARED FOR ANYTHING " WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. Mr La Guardia, addressing women's organisations, urged the repeal of the" Neutrality Act, predicting that delivery of war materials by American vessels to the docks' of Britain would assure defeat of Hitler within 13 months. He said the United States must be prepared for anything in retaliation for its stand against,the Axis. AIR THREAT TO AUSTRALIA (Rec. 1 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 15. Japan's new air line to Portuguese Timor is an air threat to Australia,., declares the Tokio correspondent of the Daily Mail. The Japanese, he states, will have speedy access td. Darwin and also a foothold in the Dutch East Indies, as part of Timor is Dutch. The correspondent adds: "Moreover, it cuts across British and American communications between the' United States, the -Philippines and "Singapore:The distance between Palau Island and Dilli, is 1200 miles, and Japan: has already carried out survey flights preparatory to a daily air service, which will be started soon."