MOSCOW DEFENCES
GUNS THAT EMERGE FROM GROUND
WINTER CAMPAIGN
PLANS
POSSIBLE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
IN SPRING.
TRANSPORT & OTHER DETAILS
(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 18. Moscow is protected from air raids by a ring of hidden guns, says the Associated Press of Great Britain’s Moscow correspondent. The guns emerge from the ground, hurl ?. heavy screen of fire and then disappear. The correspondent says he inspected a. battery of these guns in what, appeared to be a harmless Wheatfield. The Russians are speeding up preparations for a winter campaign against Germany and a possible coun-ter-offensive next spring, reports the “Daily Telegraph’s'’ correspondent _at Moscow. Every Russian town is storing its own supply cf fuel and food. The object of this is to keep the strategic net of railways centred at Moscow free for the flow of war materials.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 6
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141MOSCOW DEFENCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 6
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