his usual Friday commentary on world affairs, Mr, Alfred Morley, speaking over Station XCDN, made observations on the! titanic German-Russian battle and drew conclusions of its effects on various parts of the world, including China and the Far East in general, Mr, Morley spoke as follows No matter what great battle of history we might name, it fades into relative insignificance in comparison with the colossal struggle between the German and Russian armies which we have all been trying to follow this past week. Spread out along a 1,700-mile front, given an almost bewildering fluidity by fleets of fast-moving mechanized machines involving literally millions of men, and marked by a strategy which envisages gains or losses of vast proportions, the struggle now raging from the North Cape down to the Black Sea holds the world spellbound.
Along the frontiers of what were in 1939 six European countries, this titanic Nazi drive was launched just twelve days ago without warning and without provocation. With all their plans completed in secret, with their massed equipment assembled and poised, possessing the greatest aggregation of military striking power the world has ever seen, the loot-seeking gangsters of metre Berlin began with everything in It is not surprising that they have had them, although the cost must have been heavy. In the far north, the thrust from Finland is threatening the isolation of the Murmansk region; in the Baltic zone, Riga. Windau and other points in Latvia have been captured; from the Polish area the Nazis have driven on to Minsk, in White Russia, and beyond on the long motor road toward Moscow; while, following he capture of Lemberg in south Poland. a thrust is being made into. the much-coveted Ukraine.
It is admitted that little if any German progress is being made from the direction of Rumania, where the Russians are strongly holding the Bessarabian territory.
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