OUR RUSSIAN ALLIES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5601, 5 April 1943, Page 4

OUR RUSSIAN ALLIES

GERMANS CARRY ITALIANS “The way has been harder and the trails greater even than we had supposed. It is of some comfort on this anniversary to look back on the corresponding period of the last war. Then our great Russian allies had collapsed, A large part of the French Army had mutinied. The British Army was engaged in the bloody and profitless struggle of Passchendaele. Our Italian allies were shortly to suffer disaster at Caporetto and require rescue. The enemy’s submarine campaign was at its height and the sinkings were heavier 'than to-day. But before the end of 1918 our enemies everywhere were suing of peace. Today our Russian allies, their banner torn but flying, are still very much in the fighting line with no intention of leaving it. The Germans instead of ourselves have to carry the Italians. The United States have not only their vast produdtion of munitions and food supplies in fuJI swing, but a great and increasing number of troops in full battle.”—General Sir Archibald Wavell in a recent talk at Delhi.