SUPPLIES FOR RUSSIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25560, 13 June 1944, Page 5

SUPPLIES FOR RUSSIA

HUGE QUANTITIES FROM ALLIES SOVIET PEOPLE IMPRESSED (Rec. 7 p.m.) RUGBY, June 11. A Moscow • correspondent says the first report by the Commissariat for Foreign Trade on the supplies sent to Russia from England, United States, and Canada is given on the front page of all Soivet newspapers and the enormous quantities made an impression scarcely less than the news of the landing in France. From October 1, 1941, to the end of April, 1944, the United States sent 8,000,000 tons of war supplies, equipment, and food to Russia, including 8872 aircraft, 3734 tanks, and nearly 207,000 vehicles. Great Britain sent over 1,000,000 tons, including 3384 aircraft and 4292 tanks. Canada sent 450,000 tons, including over 200,000 tens of wheat and flour, and 1188 tanks.

The Moscow message adds: “The newspapers express the hopes of the entire nation when they say that the warm collaboration with Britain and the United States is destined to continue after the war.”

The newspaper Izvestia writes: “No one denies that many difficulties lie in the path to the solution of the complex post-war problems, but the conviction is growing increasingly that they can be solved. The key to the solution lies in collaboration, the main principles of which were established at the Teheran conference. Freedom-loving nations have no problems that could not be solved successfully when therp is goodwill, mutual understanding, and respect for mutual interests.”