MASSES OF TANKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1942, Page 3

MASSES OF TANKS

SOVIET PREPARATIONS FOR ACTION MORE LOCAL SUCCESSES ON EASTERN FRONT. SOME RECENT ENEMY LOSSES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 9. The “Red Star” speaks of masses of new tanks which are being put into the battlefield by Russia. Two more local successes are claimed by the Russians on the Kalinin front. A German counter-attack was broken up at the point of the bayonet. At least 450 Germans were killed. In the Smolensk sector more than 1000 Germans were killed in a few days. The Russians say they have pierced the German defence system and seized several more fortified positions.

NO REST GIVEN TO THE GERMANS. RUSSIANS CONTINUE MINOR OFFENSIVES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, April 9. From Russia there is little news available and the latest communique records no material changes Ijist night. Yet in spite of the state of the ground, the Russians continue minor offensives everywhere, thus preventing the Germans withdrawing troops fbr a rest. PRISONERS IN GERMANY ' MAJORITY OF POLES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, April 9. On the Germans’ own admission, 650,000 Polish prisoners of war- are among the 1,100,000 now in Germany. This is a statement in the newspaper “Krakauer Zeitung,” published by the Nazis in Poland, which adds that 55 percent of all foreign workers in Germany are Polish nationals. EPIDEMICS IN PROSPECT LONDON, April S. The German Press, reporting that thousands of bodies are being found on the Russian front as the snow melts, emphasises the danger of epidemics.