PREPARING FOR WINTER
U COMFORTS FOR SOLDIERS IT APPEALS IN EUROPE j (Rce. 1.20 p.m.) London, Aug. 31. . j It will be many weeks before snow s and slush bog down the Germans in e south Russia where winter comes late, i but the first slight snowfall is reported s in north Sweden, and Helsinki gave s out a frost warning. - i Posters in Rumania which proclaim ? j that winter is coming, state: “Think of - j our soldiers who again have to endure t I Russian cold.” j The Rumanian reserve ol officers is : organising the collection of warm clothing. Countryfolk are ordered to pro- . duce quotas of .sheepskins and rabbit- , , skins. , ; The Hungarian youth organisation is helping a similar drive. German huntsmen and foresters are , asked to procure the maximum num- , j ber of foxskins, and a German fur com pany has been set up in Poland. A 8.8. C. foreign language broadcast | said that Hitler and his unhappy satellites are again committed to an- ; other terrible winter of suffering in ’ Russia. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 2 September 1942, Page 3
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