SECOND FRONT URGED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 241, 13 October 1942, Page 5

SECOND FRONT URGED

PROMINENCE IN RUSSIA ALLIED VIEWPOINT NOT UNDERSTOOD London, Oct. 11. After another week in which the newspapers and radios in Russia, also Russian news sheets abroad, continued to give prominence to the subject of a second front, Reuter’s Moscow correspondent says it has become clear that the Russians are unable to understand the considerations determining Anglo-American decision on strategy, especially regarding the opening of a second front. A statement from an authoritative British or American leader appears most desirable to prevent what looks like a further development in fundamental misunderstanding. Pravda, after a comparison of British and America shipbuilding figures, with announced tonnage losses, declared: “German propaganda that a lack of tonnage is curbing the Allies’ expansion of war operation is worth nothing. On the contrary, the facts confirm assertions in the British and American Press that the Allied losses are much exceeded by a ceaseless string of merchantmen.” HOW AMERICA HELPED MOVE ON ALEUTIANS (Recd. 8.40 p.m.) New York, Oct. 11. The Army and Navy Journal, an authoritative service publication, contends that the United States, in moving to reoccupy the Aleutians, was partly complying with Stalin’s wishes by establishing a second frdnt directly affecting the fortunes of Russia. It says: “Our drive to eliminate the Japanese from the Aleutians is connected with the Soviet’s magnificent defence, for the Japanese Fleet lies athwart Vladivostock, blocking the transportation of needed supplies from the United States to the Soviet European armies via the transSiberian railway. The reconquest of the Aleutians will enable the l United States to co-operate with the Russian Army should the Japanese attack Siberia.”