MOSCOW CALM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1941, Page 5

MOSCOW CALM

DIFFERENT FROM OTHER WAR CAPITALS PEOPLE LAUGH AT FASCISM. RUSSIANS NOT FRIGHTENED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) MOSCOW. September 4. Mr Ingersoll, editor of the “P.M.,” broadcasting from Moscow, said: “The striking thing about Moscow is its calmness: no parades, no crowds reading war bulletins, no excitement, only people going about their work quietly. Moscow is different from other war capitals. London is tenser —'you can feel war all around you there. I like the way the people of Moscow laugh at Fascism. Fear is the Fascists’ most powerful secret weapon, but the Russians obviously are not frightened.”

RUSSIAN COMMUNIQUE FIGHTING ON ENTIRE FRONT. AIR ARM’S SUCCESS IN BLACK SEA AREA. (British Official Wireless.) : (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) RUGBY, September 4. ! A Russian midday communique states: “During last night our troops were engaged in fighting the enemy on the entire front. “During the last two days the air arm of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed 50 enemy tanks and brought down (four Messerschmitts.”

GERMAN LOSSES NEARLY THREE MILLION MEN. A SOVIET ESTIMATE. MOSCOW, September 4. M. Yaroslavsky, a members of the Soviet Central Council, writing in “Pravda,” declares that the Germanlosses in the two years of war have been 2,930,000, including more than 2,000,000 on the Eastern Front, compared with 2,590,000 on the Eastern Front in the last war. M. Yaroslavsky points out that the Five-Year Plans have created important Soviet bases beyond reach of the enemy.

AIR OPERATIONS INTERCEPTION OF GERMAN PLANES. • RUSSIANS CLAIM SUCCESSES. (British Official Wii'eless.) RUGBY, September 4. A Russian, communique states: “In the course of yesterday our troops en-