SIGNIFICANT SILENCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1941, Page 6

SIGNIFICANT SILENCE

OBSERVED BV THE NAZIS

REGARDING THE MOSCOW FRONT.

DISAPPOINTING SURPRISES

(Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, November 6. The attention given by German despatches and radio comment to the Crimean front and the comparative silence regarding the operations against Moscow, is interpreted in many quarters as evidence of disappointing surprises for the Germans in their latest offensive against the capital. “The Times” correspondent on the German frontier says that even the successes in the Crimea are by no means as sweeping as the Wilhelmstrasse envisaged a week ago, because the Russians, although fighting rearguard actions, have not given up the fight arid show no signs, of abandoning ground except inch by inch, and at a murderous price. The German pres-

sure, however, is unrelaxed against Sebastopol and Kerch and the divebombing of Sebastopol is so heavy that Russian warships find it too risky to use the port. The Germans on the approaches to Moscow have made no progress whatsoever in the past 48 hours, despite a change in the weather favouring a resumption of mechanised movement and also despite Hitler’s throwing in every single man who can be mustered from the Reich and occupied countries and even from neutral countries.