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RED ARMY CUSHION TACTICS Analysis Of War Situation
AXIS TROOPS MOVING IN BALKANS
Reports from a very re- liable source in Ankara give the first indications since the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia of Axis troop movements in
Southern Bulgaria.
at
Odessa Garrison TO BEAT
Holding Firmly HITLER AT
THE RUSSIAN GAR RISON LEFT BEHIND IN ODESSA TO FORM ANOTHER TOBRUK ARE FIGHTING DESPERATELY AND SO FAR WITH SUCCESS, WRITES “ANNALIST” IN A MILITARY COMMEN- TARY ON THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSO-GERMAN OPERATIONS.
Odessa, he says, should prove a difficult o nut to crack, especially as the Germans will probably attempt its reduction with the aid of Rumanian troops.
Oh the rest of the Ukrainian front, the situation has not altered materially and the passage of the Dnieper has not been forced.
of
it
bank reaches of the west the Dnieper. It is a consider- able commercial port, but could not be defended by im- provleed forces specially as it the is on the wrong side of a the
river.
In addition, Italian troops
The Germans claim the capture Plovdiv, with Italian Staff officers, of Narva, Novgorod and Kher- The Russian communique are reported to have made a re- [son.
speaks only of stubborn fighting connaissance of Maritza Valley.
Other reports speak of Italy at Odessa, Gomel and Novgorod, Increasing her garrisons in the Greek islands.
Despite the possibility of such troop movements being a prelude to a fresh Axis adventure in the Balkans, Turkey expresses com- plete confidence that Germany has no hostile intentions towards her.
Air Force Crews
Large-scale German military movements in Bulgaria have be- London gun, it was learned in yesterday.
Advance units of two Ger-
man Infantry
arrived in the
past few days.
divisions have
Bouth In ∙tho.
3
They are fresh troops newly uniformed and well-disciplinea
and are thought to have come
These troops were accompani-
air force ground crews.
The loss of Kherson was foregone conclusion with Germans overrunning the lower
CALL
FOR
WAR IN
AMERICA
A call for President
from the interior of Germany. Roosevelt to propose and ed by a considerable number of for Congress to approve a declaration of war There are also reports that the italians have moved troops against the Axis nations the is made in the "New
into eastern Thrace
and
Aegean islands off · Turkey. ··
Ten to fifteen thousand Italian Republic,” one of Ameri troops have been landed on the island of Samos.-Reuter..
SPRATLY ISLANDS ISSUE
ca ́s foremost Liberal weeklies..
There is a chance, the magazine says,' of "an immediate and complete victory over. Hit- ler" if the United States, Russlu
No great change is expected in the Ukraine operations for the present. It will take some time for the German High Command to get together a sufficient strik-. ing force and all the parapher- calia required for an operation of the magnitude of the forcing of the Dnieper.
Leningrad Drive
Furthermore, there are indica- tions that the main attack has been switched back north once again with Eeningrad as the objective. This offensive is now in full swing, but it is not likely to be as prolonged as the first two, although it will be intensive.
while it lasts.
The Rucsians still have room to employ the cushion tactics that have proved so successful hitherto, which enable them. to absorb shock. without undue loss to themselves while ex- acting costly payment from the enemy.
They are, however, getting near: to the region where they will be fighting with their backs to the wall in defence of the great in- dustrial, belt of Leningrad. They (Continued on Page 16),
|and Britäin launch a combined HITLER
assault.
America, - It asserto, -la bet- ter prepared to fight Germany nów with Allies than later with none,
"If it is not our war, we
war
should have nothing to do with
it. But we have decided other-
SEES FATE
(By Reuter's Speciat Correspondent)
GERMAN OFFICERS IN RUS- wise. If it is our war, enough SIA HAVE RECEIVED IN so that we must put our materini STRUCTIONS FROM BERLIN resources and wealth into the TO TELL THE TROOPS THAT scales on one side only, then it THE SEVERITY OF THE RUS is our war to fight as well."- Reuter.
That the United States
BIAN WINTER IS GROSSLY, would view with con
EXAGGERATED AND ALL THE cern and refuse to recog-
MEN NEED TO WITHSTAND nise any formal Japanese posscasions in new Tokyo maps THE RIGOURS OF WINTER IS which indicate an extension of THICK CLOTHING PLUS annexation of additional the original Japanese: annexation. VALINKIS (RUSSIAN FELT Pacific islands was indi- Seven Islands of this group BOOTS) WHICH ARE TO BE over which Japan assumed Juris TAKEN FROM THE PEABANTBA cated by Mr. Cordell Hull diction in 1939 had been accu-These instructions, which I at his press conference pled by France in 1933, but the learn from an authoritative Japanese contended that they source in Ankara, show that Hit- yesterday.
were without an owner.
ler realises that a winter cam- It was pointed out that the. The annexation at that time paign is inovitable and that his Spratly group in the South China cnused considerable misgivingamen are hervous about the winter. Seas are now shown as Japancto Reuter,
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NIKOLAIEV SHIPYARDS DESTROYED
M. Lozovsky, de- puty of the Informa- tion Bureau, Moscow, denying German claims to have cap- tured an unfinished battleship and other vessels at Nikolaiev, said the facts were that
an unfinished and unengined battle- ship and cruiser on the stocks were blown up by the Russians, with the shipyards.- Reuter.
00000
OWN GAME
Britain's latest and fastest cruiser tanks, "Covenanters," are pro- bably the best designed tank of their type in the world..
Britain's armoured divisions are now equipped with many of this type, as well as every de- scription of fighting vehicles, trucks, cars and motor-cycles.
It has been suggested in Ger- man military circles that
the war has now reached such an high degree of technical perfec- tion that it would be impossible in the comparatively short period: of a war itself to train mien for such specialised fighting units, but the British Army has now many technical formations cap able of their own, gume.
The latest British tanks have to given even greater speed armoured 'divisions without diminishing their striking power and many of the lessons learn- ed In this present............war, ware represented in the most recent models.
A typical division with moving armoured GHQ, familiar- ly called "The Tin Hearse," and including the latest American-7 made 70 m.ph,, armoured, trucks, has, in addition to its own artil- lery, scout cars, medical corps, anti-tank, anti-aircraft and in- fantry units.-Reuter.
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