THREE YEARS OF WAR

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 228, 23 June 1944, Page 5

THREE YEARS OF WAR

Losses In Russia Compared

(British Official Wireless.) (Received June 22, 7.5 p.m.)

RUGBY, June 21. During three years of war, the Germans on the Soviet front have lost more than 7,800,000 officers and men killed and made prisoners and 70.000 tanks. 60,000 planes and more than 00.000 guns. In the same period, the Soviet losses were 5,300,000 killed, prisoners and missing, 49,000 tanks, 30,128 planes and 48,000 guns. . ~ . These figures were given in a Russian statement tonight, three years after the German invasion of Russia. The statement adds that 600,000 square miles ot Russian territory have already been liberated. Moscow newspapers, recalling the anniversary of the German attack against Russia on June 22. hint that greater events and offensives, are imminent. “The Red Army is riding on the floodtide. toward victory.” they declare. LONDON, June 22. . Moscow radio in a war review paid tribute to British and American aid to the Red Army, both by supplying precious raw materials and armaments and systematically bombing military targets in Germany, thereby undermining Germany’s military might. It adds: “On the thresbhold. of the fourth year of the war. the Soviet Union possesses a powerful war economy which is meeting all the Red Army’s requirements in arms, ammunition, food and equipment. The enemy’s superiority in tanks and aircraft is a thing of the past, while the Soviet Union's economic potential is growing daily. With the Russian, British and American armies now smashing their way into Germany, the war is moving to an end. but the rest of the way to complete victory won't be easy, the German beast, wounded and trapped, will fight back ferociously.”