Evening star., 1941-10-08
Will Find Ways
10 Send Help,
Says
Moscow Defenses Are
Shaken by Drive,
Germans Claim
BULLETIN.

NEW 1oNh 'HI.-C. %. ..
quoted O. British broadcast to-
day as saying that Russian
troops have evacuated the i'm
portant town of Orel, 68 miles
east of Bryansk. Orel is 220
miles south of Moscow on the
main railway line linking
Moscow and Kharkov in the
Ukraine, and proceeding
southeast to RoStov- v-on-Don.
BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt has sent a
letter to Premier Stain of Russia
declaring ways would be found
to provide the material and sup
plies necessary to fight Hitler on
all fronts, including your own"
The letter, presented to Stain
by w. Averell Hartman. head of
the American aid mission to Moscow.
also expressed great confidence"
that the Russian armies would
ultimately prevail over Adolf Hitler.
The letter was made public as
Nazi spokesman in Berlin claimed
that Hitler's invasion armies. fight
ing a giant battle of annihilation
l25 miles from Moscow, have
thoroughly shaken the outer de-
fenses of the Russian capital, with
several Red armies trapped and
facing destruction.
In announcing the text Of the
letter. the White House said
careful comparison of its language
with purported copy of the same
letter published today in Berlin
would show the propaganda OBJ
jectives' of the Nazi publication
action.
Text of Letter
The text of the Presidents letter
as given out here follows:
My dear Mr.. Stain:
This note will be presented to
you by my friend, Averell Harri-
man, whom I have asked to be head
OF our delegation to Moscow.
Mr.. Hartman is we'll aware Of
the strategic Importance of your
front and will, I know. do every-
thing that he can to bring the nego-
tlatlons in Moscow to a successful
conclusion.
Harry Hopkins has told me in
great detail of his ENCOURAGING and
satisfactory visits with you 1 can't
tell you how thrilled all of us are
because of the gallant defense of
the Soviet armies.
II am confident that ways will be
found to provide the material and
supplies necessary to fight Hitler
on all fronts, including your own.
1 want particularly to take this
occasion to express my great conf
dence that your armies will ulti-
mately prevail over Hitler and to
assure you of our great determina-
ton to be of every possible material
assistance
Yours very sincerely.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Comparison Invited.
The introductory paragraph in
the White House announcement
said:
Careful comparison of the lam
guage of the German announce.
ment, made today by D.NB. in Ber-
lin, and that actually contained in
the Presidents letter of introduction
of Mr.. Hartman to Mr. Stain, is
invited. When such a comparison
is made, the propaganda detectives
of the Nazi action become very
clear"
No copy of the D.N.B. version was
available here.
1t was not known here how the
German news agency obtained what
it called the text of the Presidents
letter.
One official reported that one of
the major differences in the D.NB.
text and the actual one was in the
salutation. He said the DN.B. ver-
sion opened the letter with My
Dear Friend Stalin," whereas the
official text said Mr.. Stain"
Another difference reported un-
officially was in the conclusions in
the two texts. DNB.'s was said
to have ended With cordial friend
ship" whereas the White House
text had Yours very sincerely"
''Solid Front" Forges Ahead.
The Berlin spokesman said 1t was
not detached raiding groups which
forged within 125 miles of Moscow,
but solid German front"
The German high command as
serted that Moscow's defenses had
been preached in the seven -day-old
grand offensive.
Six or seven Russian divisions are
on the verge of destruction, o. special
bulletin from Hitlers headquarters
informed Germany.
The communique. the second
special pronouncement of the day
from the front, said daring thrust ,
oy German tank army strengthened
by Italian, Hungarian and Slovak
movements had smashed through to ,
the Sea of AZov east of Dnieper-
opetrovsk and had cut off the re-
treat of the Russian Ninth Army. =
This force, it said. was defeated
on the Melitopol front and was try
ing to fall back on Rostov.