New Red Armies! Ready For Battle

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1942, Page 5

New Red Armies! Ready For Battle

TRAINED IN URALS

Germans Throwing In Reserve. To Meet Soviet Onslaughts (United Press Association.—Copyright.—Rec. 1 p.m.) LONDON. February 22. Big Russian reserve armies in the Urals have completed training and are now ready for action, says the Moscow radio. The Soviet reserve air squadrons are now equipped with Hurricane fighters. The Germans have already lost 250,000 dead and wounded before Leningrad, and they lost the same number before Odessa. Ibe enemy is using an increasing number of tanks for the counterattacks on the central front, but the tanks are not meeting with any better success than the infantry. More reserves which the German High Command intended for the spring offensive are being thrown in at various fronts in an unsuccessful effort to stem the Russian advance, reports the Ked Star, Soviet military journal. The Germans are offering stiff resistance on the Kalinin front and also around Leningrad, where new units are being thrown straight into the battle. Regiments from the German sth Light Infantry Division brought from {"ranee were immediately employed in an attempt to stem the Kussian advance on the northern front, but were hurled back with heavy losses. The enemy on this front is attempting local counterattacks, but is unable to check Russian progress. Russian tommy-gunners are inflicting deadly execution in encirclement moves A Moscow dispatch states that the Russians have recaptured 60 fortified block houses near Shlusselburg. east or Leningrad. Two new Russian thrusts on this front are progressing satisfactorily. p