FOOD AND FUEL.
FOR CIVILIANS IN MOSCOW. LONDON, Oet. 13. Tho Mayor of Moscow made a statement that the city was not taking chances hut was preparing for a possible German offensive. The defences are constantly being strengthened and anti-aircraft defences have been increased. The population in the last six months has increased by 400,000 to 3,200,000. “We are determined that the people shall get warmth and also essential food, transport, electricity, gas, hospitals, baths, theatres and cinemas. Eighty thousand woodcutters have been mobilised, chiefly women. They are doing (wonderfully, but transport is the.main problem. We are well supplied with food, which /, is stored throughout the city to prevent undue loss in air raids.”
The Mayor told an agency correspondent that Moscow this winter could he warmer than it was last year. Though the Don basin has been lost, the Moscow coal basin, recently recaptured from the Germans, was already producing up to 30 per cent, more than it did before-the war.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 3, 14 October 1942, Page 6
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