RED ARMY’S BLOWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1942, Page 4

RED ARMY’S BLOWS

BECOMING MORE DESTRUCTIVE ADVANCE OF 250 MILES IN TWO MONTHS. GERMAN RESISTANCE BEING BROKEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON .February 5. President Kalinin, in an article in the “Red Star” said: “The Russians in two months have advanced 250 miles. The number of liberated Ukrainian villages grows daily and the frontiers of White Russia, Latvia and Lithuania are being brought closer and closer to the advancing Red Army. Germany will not be able to wrest the initiative from our hands. • The Red Army’s blows will be more and more destructive.” The Kuibyshev radio says the Russians on the Kalinin front are breaking German resistance and repelling all counter-attacks, capturing valuable material. Fierce fighting is raging on a sector on the north-west front, where the Germans dug themselves in. Russian artillery in the last few days have been pounding the German entrenchments, inflicting heavy losses. The Berlin radio announced that Lieutenant-General Herbert Geitner, commander of an infantry division, has died of wounds received on the Russian front. OBLIGATIONS TO MOSCOW. WILL NOT BE IGNORED. (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 5. Senator Pepper said that he had received assurances from officials that the United States did not intend to ignore its obligations to Moscow. Senator Pepper added that the rush of supplies and reinforcements to the Far East and the Pacific had considerably interfered • with the scheduled transfers to Russia.