LOSSES ALREADY GREAT

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 263, 5 August 1942, Page 5

LOSSES ALREADY GREAT

Soviet’s Acute Peril London, August 3. The Russians have already lost heavily in resources in recently-cap-tured territory, while very valuable areas are under an extreme threat from, the Nazis. The American Associated Press correspondent at Moscow says that it will take superhuman Russian resistance to keep the Germans from the Maikop oil area. The Germans have advanced at least 100 miles south-eastward of Rostov during the nine days since Rostov fell. “The Times” diplomatic correspondent points out that the North Caucasus has 500,000 acres of cotton land which will be a special prize for the Germans if they reach it, also 12,500,000 acres of Wheatland. The dam which, the Germans claimed to have captured in the Proletarskaya region probably is one built in recent years to feed the canal linking the Don and the Caspian Sea, and also to irrigate 450,-’ 000 acres between the Manich River and. the Caspian. Using AH Reserves. “Pravda” says: “The situation in the south, is more serious and complicated. The danger threatening our country is more acute. “The Germans are throwing in all their reserves, sweeping Germany clean and squeezing everything from the occupied, countries, even at the risk of denuding the Atlantic coastline. We must bleed the German divisions white. We must fight for every sector to the last drop of blood.” s It is estimated in Moscow that the Germans are losing more than 15,000 men daily on the entire Russian front. It is reported without confirmation from Moscow that the Russians last week killed 00,000 Germans on the southern front and also wiped out about 20,000 on the Kushchevska and Salsk fronts in the past five days. The total German casualties since the opening of the present campaigns on the southern fronts are estimated at 180,000. NO REDUCTION IN WEST German Garrisons (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 3. With reference to reports that German divisions have been transferred to the Eastern Front from France and the Low Countries in the last few months, it is once more stated in Loudon that there is no evidence of any reduction of the total strength of the German forces in Western Europe. The Germans are believed to use France as a place for regrouping and resting divisions before transferring them to the East, and there are about 25 divisions in occupied France and the Low Countries. The English Press these days reflects the general public desire than an attack should be made in ’Western Europe as soon as possible by British armies reinforced by the American troops now gathering in Britain. The “News Chronicle” says the matter for decision is not bicrely when Anglo-American military strength will have reached the highest stage of preparation for striking, but the moment when the military strength of the United States, Great Britain, and Russia, considered as a single whole, will be in optimum condition to inflict damage on the enemy. No one imputes lack of desire and Intention to help Russia to those on either side of the Atlantic who have this momentous decision to make, says the newspaper.