IN LENINGRAD BATTLE
“RED STAR” GIVES DETAILS. | MANY DIVISIONS ROUTED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.8 p.m.) RUGBY, October 1. in the titanic battle for Leningrad, the Germans have already lost at least 100,000 men killed, wounded or, captured in the south and south-west approaches alone, according to the first detailed review of the battle appearing in the “Red Star.” These figures exclude heavy German losses in ;Estonia and towards Novogrod. The Germans have also lost in the Leningrad battle 400 tanks, 400 minethrowers, 846 planes and 200 field guns. Divisions said to have been routed or defeated with very heavy losses are one S.S. division, one motorised division, the Eighth Tank Division, and the 122nd, 191st and 269th infantry divisions. SUPPLY QUESTION TRANSPORT THE PRINCIPAL | PROBLEM. BRITISH EXPERT’S REVIEW. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) RUGBY, October 1. The Anglo-American-Soviet Conference held its second planary session in Moscow this afternoon and afterwards, according to Press messages, delegates attended a reception given by the Soviet Government. The six committees established to discuss various aspects of the supply question completed their work last night and presented reports to today’s conference. Originally the committees were instructed to complete their work by Friday morning, but urgency and speed have provided the keynote of the conference. The committees dealt with Soviet requirements of Army, Naval and Air supplies, raw materials, transportation and medical .supplies. The speed with which the six committees reported to the conference is unparalleled, according to a statement in London today by Mr Laurence J. Cadbury, a member of the Economic Mission. Discussing problenis of supplies for Russia, Mr Cadbury revealed that the problem was not one of supplies. There has been little difficulty about the foods themselves or about financial agreements. Russian ships had quickly been put into service, including many laid up at Hong Kong, Shanghai, Vladivostock and so on. The main difficulty was transportation. At Archangel it was the chief •problem. Opinions varied on the feasibility of using the port during the coming months. Pessimists declared that it would be icebound after November 15, while a more hopeful view was that the Russian authorities would be able to keep it open throughout the winter. A port accustomed to handle timber must be adapted to handle other supplies, said Mr Cadbury, and such readjustments and consequent speed-up in turn round constitute the main problems here. The Vladivostok route was good, but expensive. A third route was via the Persian Gulf. Methods of bringing supplies had been improved by the position in Iran, where the railways had been taken over. Regarding a slight reticence which the Russian authorities had shown when the mission arrived in Moscow, Mr Cadbury thought this might now have been modified. Lord Beaverbrook had now seen M. Stalin on three occasions and M. Litvinov, who was particularly friendly to Britain, had been appointed to the conference now sitting.
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