SOVIET REPORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 7

SOVIET REPORT

FINAL MOPPING=UP IN PROGRESS LOCAL POPULATIONS SAID TO BE JUBILANT. FORMATION OF PEASANTS’ COUNCIL. (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) MOSCOW, September 22. A communique claims the occupation of Pinsk as part of the final moppingup operations in occupied areas. The Tass Agency says life in the occupied towns and villages is resuming normality. It is claimed that the local populations are jubilant over the Russian liberation. They are co-oper-ating in reorganisation, providing representatives on the new administrative bodies and electing peasants’ committees in the villages. Detachments of workers’ guards are being formed in the country districts to maintain order. The publication has begun of newspapers in the Ukrainian and White Russian dialects. Theatre artists are arriving from Moscow and portraits of Stalin are appearing everywhere. The Soviet Press for the first time announces that the Dneiper River war patrol entered Polish waters .on Monday evening without resistance. GERMAN LOSSES CASUALTIES IN THREE WEEKS OF WAR. FRENCH ESTIMATES. (Received This Day, 9.0 a.m.) PARIS, September 22. The French Ministry of Information states that in three weeks of warfare in Poland the German casualties were 150,000 dead or wounded. Germany lost 900 aeroplanes and 600 pilots.