WINTER'S ONSET IN RUSSIA
REPORTED GERMAN PREPARATIONS,
P.A. Cable
LONDON, Oct. 19.
The Russians' slender bridge across the Volga at Stalingrad was purpostly built narrow to reduce the target area. The bridge has been hit) only twice and each time was repaired in a few hours. The bridge passes two-way, single-file, traffic. According to Moscow radio, Finland has losf 300,000 men in the Russian war. The radio added that the Finns asserted that they were fighting their own war, but they continue fighting with the Germans on the Don and in the Caucasus. The Berlin International News Bureau, dwelling on the deterioration of the weather on the Russian front, said: "Oold rain has swepc over Stalingrad. Wintry conditionsi on the central front are preventing large scale movement. Two thousand five hundred and eiahtv-tv.roe trains, carrying 1,162,000 tons of winter equipment, including skis, have arrived in Russia for the German army."
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 247, 20 October 1942, Page 2
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150WINTER'S ONSET IN RUSSIA Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 247, 20 October 1942, Page 2
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