GERMAN ARMY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1941, Page 5

GERMAN ARMY

DISINTEGRATION BEGUN. RUSSIAN SPOKESMAN’S VIEW. LONDON. August 6. The deputy chief of the Moscow Information Bureau, M. Lozovsky, at a Press conference, said: “The disintegration of the German army has begun; its morale is broken. This is the surest sign that it is nearing ruin and rout." RUMOURS IN BRITAIN OF IMMINENT MOVE TO AID RUSSIA. AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT'S STORY. LONDON, August, 6. England is excited by persistent rumours of an imminent British move to join in the fighting with Russia or to create a double front for Hitler. One American correspondent' has got a message away relating to reports of largo British concentrations in the Arctic, the implication being that a landing would occur in Norway.

RUSSIAN REPORT no' LARGE-SCALE MILITARY OPERATIONS. RED AIR FORCE ACTIVE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) RUGBY, August 6. A mid-day Russian communique states: "During the night of August 5 our Troops continued to wage battle with the enemy in the Kholm, Smolensk and Byelaya Tserkov directions, and on the Estonian sector of the front. There have been no large-scale military operations. "In the Baltic Sea, an enemy transport, with troops and ammunition, was sunk by one of our submarines. "Our Air Force has continued to inflict blows upon enemy motorised and mechanised units, upon infantry and artillery and on the air force at his aerodromes.”

ganise new detachments to destroy the Nazi dogs, overturn trains and blow up dumps. Do not allow an ounce of bread to reach the enemy. Harvest exactly as much as you need and destroy the remainder. The hour of victory is approaching." the proclamation says.