HELD BY WINTER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 December 1941, Page 6

HELD BY WINTER

GERMANS ON EASTERN FRONT RUSSIANS ATTACKING VIGOROUSLY. IMPORTANT POSITIONS TAKEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 9. “We will not advance further on the Moscow front this winter,” said a German military spokesman. “The Russian winter has held Germany up before Moscow and Leningrad. We will resume operations x in 1942, when Japan’s intervention may have created advantageous conditions.” A campaign has been started, with the arrival of winter, to intensify tne ■training of Russian youths in the use oi skis. The Russians welcome the winter, believing that they are far more experienced in facing it than the Gelmans. The Tass Agency reports that Russian counter-attacks in the Mojaisk area cleared the enemy from several villages. The Russians have. also dislodged the enemy from a point in the Volokalamsk region and inflicted heavy losses. The Germans desperately attempted to recapture this position, but the Russian artillery routed their infantry. The Russians entered another village in the Volokalamsk aiea and found many Germans frozen to death. The Berlin radio admitted that fierce Russian attacks are developing in the northern sector of the Russian frent.