Evening star., 1941-09-22
Reds Loss Of Kiey
Emphasizes Need Of
Aid, British Say
English Tank Makers Stur,
Week of Production for
Soviet Requirements
BY the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 22.-The German
victory at Kiev was seen in British
circles today as strongly underlin-
ing need for swift British and United
States action to rush the greatest
help to Soviet Russia in the short
| est time.
Newspaper commentators declared
no help was too great for the Rus
slams, and British tank-makers lent
emphasis to that feeling by start
ing full force on a week during
which the entire British tank out
put will go to Russia.
Some workers, due for vacations
decided to stay on the job.
Maisky Appeals for Tanks.
A plea for tanks and more tanks
and yet more tanks" was sounded
last night by Ivan Maisky, Soviet
Ambassador to Britain.
Appealing to the British workers
through the Supply Ministry, he
said:
I'VE produced many tanks our
selves, but our losses in tanks on a
2,000-mile front are great
your tanks will not be wasted.
The sooner you send us tanks
and the greater their number the
earlier the Nazi hordes will be de-
feated."
Maisky with his wife and members
of a Russian military mission to
Britain, visited a Midlands factory
today and saw numbers of completed
and incompleted tanks. all bearing
w" Cfor victory signs and greetings
such as Moscow here I come"
Mrs. Maisky named the first tank
off the assembly line today the
Stain" Maisky expressed graft
tude for "these excellent machines. :"
Supply Plan Agreed To.
The British mission headed by
Lord Beaverbrook and the United
States group headed by w. Averell
Hartman will be at work in Mos
COW within a few days. informed
sources said. Lord Beaverbrook al
ready is in the Russian capital and
Mr.. Hartman wound up his London
conferences Saturday preparatory
to going to Moscow.
The British cabinet was reported
TO have agreed to comprehensive
plan aimed at helping solve the job
of supplying Russia.
The Daily Telegraph declared the
plan went far beyond making good
the enormous Russian wastage of
tanks and fighter planes. 1t includes
various means for strengthening
Russia's war industry and provision
of consumer goods of which vast re-
serves of Russian man power have
been deprived by the needs of war
production in the u S. S. R."
AS the newspapers stressed the
need for speed, the Daily Express
declared bluntly that I'VE don't send
this aid in any sloppy mood of aid
ing the victim of aggression. We
do it for the sake of our own earth,
to save it from being scorched."
British Invasion Talk Drops.
Meanwhile, talk of the British
opening a front in the west to draw
of some of the Germans attacking
the Russians in the east died away.
Chuter EIDE, parliamentary under
secretary to the Board of Educa-
ton, declared in a speech yester-
day that only when the time Is
ripe will Prime Minister Churchill
take offensive action in the west"
and added "he will not do it merely
because people call for it."
The Germans, having taken Kiev,
probably are aiming their next ma
jor thrust at Rostov, at the mouth
Of the River Don, authoritative
sources said.
Rostov, on the Sea of Azov, is
to Russia not only as a
port for water-borne reinforcement
Of Crimea, but also as q gateway
to the Caucasus and its oil fields.
The exact situation of counter
Red Army forces in the
sector was not known
here, but these sources said trans
fers of Russian troops to strengthen
resistance against Nazi drives on
the f1anks probably had weakened
striking power in the center.