ARCTIC COLD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1942, Page 4

ARCTIC COLD

AS SETTING FOR BATTLES IN RUSSIA FIGHTING IN 54 DEGREES OF FROST, NEW SOVIET ARTILLERY WEAPON. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, January 23. Fighting is in progress on the Russian central front in extreme cold. The Berlin radio declared that the Germans on this front for days resisted heavy and sustained Russian attacks in a temperature of 54 degrees of frost. Moscow claims that the (Russians on the centra! front have recaptured 98 places in the past 24 hours. A Russian artillery officer, broadcasting on the Moscow* radio, said the Russian artillery had an especially deadly new weapon, created by Russian workers and engineers, which was striking panic and fear into the Germans. “We artillerymen know the value of this new armament,” he said. “In a few minutes of direct fire it razes everything, even at long distances.” KILLED IN RUSSIA ANOTHER GERMAN GENERAL (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) j (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) BERLIN, January 23. The German General, Georg Hurvelcke, in command of an infantry division, has been killed in Russia.