NEW YEAR HONOURS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 4, 6 January 1944, Page 5

NEW YEAR HONOURS

Recd. 6 p.m. Sydney, Jan. 4. The New Year Honours include:— C.M.G., Mr. Arthur Leopold Armstrong, formerly British Consul at Tonga; M.8.E., Mrs. Robert Crompton; 0.8. E., Lieut.-Col. John Plunkett Magrane.

attacks, the report says, are now in progress in this area. “The longer the Finns continue to fight on Hitler’s side the worse it will be for them at the peace table,” is the gist of a long Pravda leader, which accuses Finland of deliberately entering the war on Germany’s side hoping to permanently weaken the Soviet Union and enlarge its own territory at Russia's expense. “Russia has no designs on Finland’s independence anv more than on Poland's, but the future of the Finnish-Soviet frontiers must correspond with what Russia regards as minimum strategic safety,” it says. HALF-WAY TO GERMANY RED ARMY’S ACHIEVEMENT Recd. 7 p.m. Rugby, Jan. 4. The Russians are nearly half-way from the Kursk sector, where their offensive was begun under six months ago, to German Sil'sia, 370 miles to the west. East Prussia, however, is actually the nearest German territory, being 250 miles away to the north-west of the Olevsk area. Hungary is 200 miles to the southwest. Rumania is 130 miles ahead of lhe advancing armies, but at the mouth of the Dnieper the Russians have long been only 120 miles from Rumania at the mouth of ths Danube. 8.0.W.