MADE BY NAZIS ON EASTERN FRONT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1941, Page 5

MADE BY NAZIS ON EASTERN FRONT

Russians Resisting At All Points ITALIAN MINISTER PREDICTS LONG WAR GUERRILLAS ACTIVE BEHIND GERMAN LINES LONDON, August 10. At the beginning’ of the eighth week of the German-Jlussiaii war the Russians are still resisting at all points on the front and the German troops are nowhere as much as 200 miles within the frontier of Russia proper. A Russian communique reports fighting round Smolensk, in the Ukraine and in Estonia. A German communique states that operations are proceeding according to plan. The Germans also mention an air attack on Moscow, which the Russians say cost the enemy at least eight planes. The Rome radio says the Russians may be able to continue, their resistance indefinitely. The Italian Minister of Educatioia, writing in a paper, said it would be well to prepare the nation for a long war. It would be wise to spread the belief that the war might last for ten years. A Moscow communique refers to guerrilla warfare behind the enemy lines, stating that in the far north guerrilla troops have been particularly successful in the rear of the Finnish forces. Several bridges have been wrecked, garrisons wiped out and two supply columns destroyed. Recently the guerrillas have been joined by Finnish peasants. In Poland, far behind the front, guerrillas have fought ten engagements in a month and in the extreme south there has been an intensification of activities behind the Rumanian front.