PRAISE FOR WORKERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1942, Page 4

PRAISE FOR WORKERS

IN BELEAGURED CITY OF STALINGRAD. USE OF ARMOURED TRAINS IN CAUCASUS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, October 14. At a full meeting of the Stalingrad Communist Party, held in the city, M. Chuyanov, Chairman of the City. Defence Council, reported on the situation. The meeting appealed to all Communists to strengthen further the city s defences and gave a pledge to defend Stalingrad at any cost and to rout the enemy. The meeting praised the work of Communists at the tractor plant and also at the “Red October” and “Barricades” factories, as well as railway and water transport workers. The Russians in the Northern Caucasus are reported to be making extensive use of armoured trains, in coordination with cavalry, infantry and the air force. In one battle an armoured train, along with cavalry, killed 1,300 Germans. In another engagement two trains killed 1,400. The Russians report that the Germans are using a new type of plane, the Henschel 129, with two engines. Its functions correspond with those of the Stprmovik. It is armed with a 30 millimetre automatic cannon and two machine-guns. Only the cockpit is armoured, the remainder of the plane being vulnerable even to small arms fire from the ground. Its speed is approximately 280 miles an hour. It carries 350 kilograms of bombs.