The Minister of Aircraft Production, Colonel Moore-Brabazon, answered affirmatively in the House of Commons to a question whether arrangements will be made to enable the aircraft industry of Russia to benefit from the operational activity of the R.A.F. and of production experience of British aircraft industries.
The Minister added that detailed arrangements had not yet been made but that every assistance would be given to Russia, A member then asked that a number of British workers be sent to Russia. To this. however. the Minister did not reply,—Reuter. of Minsk, Russian troops were engaged in big battles to hold up German attempts to penetrate eastward. It is in his sector that the main German troops are trying to break through in the direction of Moscow.
The latest Russian communique asserts that the Germans are being held in the sectors round Minsk and Luck, while the Germans say that they have crossed the River Pruth.
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