SOVIET REVIEWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1942, Page 3

SOVIET REVIEWS

OF SOUTH RUSSIAN OPERATIONS DISPROPORTIONATE ENEMY LOSSES. MANY DIVISIONS TRANSFERRED FROM WEST. LONDON, August 19. The Moscow radio says: “The Germans have transferred 22‘divisions, including two tank divisions, from the west to Russia in the last two months, and have also flung additional divisions from the vassal States against Russia. The superiority of enemy manpower and equipment concentrated in a decisive sector has enabled the enemy in the Don and Kuban regions to capture large territories and towns which are a serious loss industrially to Russia. “The Russians held and began beating back, the Germans at Voronezh during the last six weeks in spite of the enemy’s reserves in manpower and his quantity of equipment, and the nussians in recent weeks have been repelling repeated German attacks on the Don bend, and have also developed offensive operations against the enemy on the Bryansk and Kalinin fronts in the north-west.

“The Germans have been able to advance appreciably only in the south, where their losses have been tremendous.” It is officially stated in Moscow that the Germans on the Russian front during the three months ended August 15 ]ost 1,250,000 men, of whom 480,000 were killed. The Socviet Union lost 606,000 dead, wounded and missing. The Germans lost 3390 tanks, 4000 guns, and 4000 planes, and the Soviet losses were 2240 tanks, 3162 guns, and 2198 planes.