SUPPLIES FOR SOVIET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1941, Page 6

SUPPLIES FOR SOVIET

FLOWING THROUGH IRAN 'STATEMENT BY DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORT. GREAT EXPANSION IN PROGRESS. (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) BAGDAD, November 12. Sir. Godfrey Rhodes, Director of Transportation on the Iran railways, said supplies to Russia were flowing along several routes. Plans for increasing the routes were proceeding satisfactorily. Supplies were reaching north Iran by rail and lorry and also the Caspian ports. America was sending lorries, including the biggest. Australia, India and America were sending rails and rolling stock. The expansion of port facilities at Basra and Bandar-Shahpur was being pressed ahead. BRITISH CATHOLICS SUPPORT FOR RUSSIA. LIE GIVEN TO PROPAGANDA BY NAZIS. (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, November 12. Viscount Fitzalan, speaking in the House of Lords on the Catholic attitude towards Russian collaboration, said a report that Catholics were not entitled to support Russia was probably Nazi propaganda. “I wish to repudiate it absolutely,” he added. “Cardinal Hinsley has recently made it quite clear that Catholics not only are entitled, but ought from the Christian point of view to support the Soviet in this conflict. We cannot retract the condemnations we used to level against the Soviet, but there are signs of a change of policy in Russia in this respect.”