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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1942, Page 4

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MADE BY SOVIET TROOPS ’NCLUDING FORTIFIED POST NEAR STARAYA RUSSA. THAW BEGINNING ON PARTS OF FRONT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, March 9. The Russians, after fierce fighting, occupied a strongly-fortified garrison town near Staraya Russa. In the Rjev and Orel areas the Russians have recaptured thirteen inhabited places. , The Berlin correspondent of the “Dagens Nyheter” says snow storms are raging in the Kerch and Donetz areas, where fighting has ceased. A thaw has begun at certain other points, giving the Geripans a foretaste of what it will be like when great masses of snow - begin to melt. The roads and terrain are already impassable for mechanised vehicles, so that large military movements are held up. HEAVY AIR LOSSES SUFFERED BY GERMANS IN RUSSIA. SOVIET GIVES PARTICULARS. (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, March 9. An overnight Soviet war communique states: —“On March 8 Soviet troops, overwhelming enemy resistance, continued their advance and oclocalities. “On March 7, 36 German planes were destroyed, not 29 as previously reported. On the following day, 39 enemy planes were shot down, in aerial combats or destroyed on the ground. On March 8 four German planes were shot down near Moscow. In the week March 1 to March 7 358 enemy planes were destroyed. Our losses in the same period were 65 planes.”