WOMEN & CHILDREN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1942, Page 3

WOMEN & CHILDREN

USED BY GERMANS AS SHIELD IN ATTACKS ON STALINGRAD FRONT. RUSSIAN DENUNCIATION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) RUGBY, October 11. The unbelievably inhuman practice of driving women and children in front of their attacking troops was employed yesterday ,by the Germans—and not for the first time—in an endeavour to gain headway on the Stalingrad front. A Soviet communique, disclosing this, adds that a Russian unit quickly rushed to the German flank, attacked and inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans, and freed the women and cnildren. The Germans, despite their recent statement, are still using infantry m the Stalingrad assault. The statement is considered to have been necessary to calm the minds of the Germans, as there is little doubt that the Germans at last are beginning to feel a draught in the matter of casualties.

POLITICAL COMMISSARS

POSTS ABOLISHED BY STALIN. LONDON, October 10. The posts of political war commissars With the Red Army have been abolished by M. Stalin in a decree creating" the single military command of units, reports the Moscow radio. The unit commanders will handle both political and military matters. Political commissars who have gained useful experience ol modern warfare will be appointed to command units.

AMERICAN AID

DELIVERIES BELOW PROMISED J LEVELS. TEHERAN, October 10. The United States Ambassador to Moscow, Admiral Standley, who is en route to Washington, said it was perfectly true that American aid to Russia was not reaching the promised levels. He added that he was going to America to get supplies speded up.