FINNS DISMAYED
SHARE IN THE GERMAN PREDICAMENT.
RUSSIANS USING ENEMY TANKS.
(Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, December. 17.
By initiating an offensive from the Oshta region, south-westward of Lake Onego on December 15, the Russians surprised the Finns who had considered themselves already victorious and had begun partial demobilisation. The strength of this Russian move thus far cannot be judged, but, coupled with the German predicament, it is already bringing home to the Finns the dangers of their position and is also strengthening an incipient conviction that they missed a favourable opportunity when they refused peace with honour, plus regained territory.
The Moscow radio stated that the Germans in the Tula sector are so quickly abandoning villages that they are unable to destroy equipment. The Russians in some instances have not only captured tanks intact, but have been able immediately to attack the Germans with them, because even the guns were still loaded. The German armies in the Mojaisk area ,west of Moscow) have begun a large-scale evacuation, employing a large number of planes to cover the withdrawal.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1941, Page 6
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