RUSSIAN RAILWAYS
STANDING UP WELL TO STRAIN OF WAR ACHIEVEMENT BY WORKERS. DAY'S PAY GIVEN TO DEFENCE FUNDS. MOSCOW, August 12. Twenty million roubles has been handed to the national defence fund as a result of a “free” day’s work by Soviet railwaymen and their families. More than 1,300,000 workers gave on Sunday to assist the railways, for which they took no pay. Many observers thought that communications would prove the weakest link in the Soviet defence, and official quarters admit that the railways were subjected to a severe strain in the first days of the war, but they have stood the test. Large numbers of maintenance men are always stationed ready to repair the track at any point, and as a result there has been no serious hold-up in the vital lines. Furthermore, a vast quantity of roll-ing-stock has been brought back from western Russian and the Baltic States. The railwaymen, before abandoning any section, always destroy the operative parts and also any equipment they are unable to bring away.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1941, Page 5
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