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MILDER WEATHER

ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT FLOW OF WAR MATERIAL TO RED ARMY. INCREASING STEADILY. LONDON, May 6. In Russia there is. still no sign of a major offensive. The transformation from winter to spring on the southwest front has enabled the Russians to change into summer uniforms. The “Izvestia” says the Red Army is steadily receiving increasing quantities of tanks, planes, trench mortars and machine-guns. ATTACKS IN SOUTH LENINGRAD’S FINE RECORD. - STRENGTHENED DURING YEAR OF SIEGE. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, May 5. Marshal Timoshenko has started attacks in the Kursk, Kharkov and Tanganrog regions, and heavy fighting has been going on in the past 24 hours between Kursk and Kharkov, says the Moscow correspondent of the “Daily Express.” Though Leningrad is again isolated from the outside world because of melting ice on Lake Ladoga, military observers say that the city has been able to ■ withstand one year’s siege. Food and ammunition has been pour'ed in for nearly 200 days across the railway which crossed Lake Ladoga when it was frozen. The industrial capacity of the city has increased 30 per cent. Leningrad now produces all the tanks and armoured cars needed by the Soviet fighting units in this area. Two million people in Leningrad, including children, aged and sick, were evacuated across the lake when the railway was operating.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1942, Page 3

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MILDER WEATHER Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1942, Page 3

MILDER WEATHER Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1942, Page 3

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