RUMANIA AND THE WAR

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23477, 4 November 1941, Page 7

RUMANIA AND THE WAR

Heavy Casualties Cause Unrest ACTS OF SABOTAGE INCREASE (Received November 3, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 2. Bitter disillusionment is sweeping Rumania as news is leaking through of the tremendous casualties in Russia, says the Istanbul correspondent of the "Daily Mail.” Of 300,000 Rumanians who crossed the Dniester 122,000 are dead, wounded, missing, or prisoners. A curfew is imposed three times a week from 11 p.m. to dawn in order to hide from the people the long processions of ambulances carrying casualties from the trains. The trains are held up on the outskirts of the capital until after the curfew, when the military take possession of the stations. As the significance of the curfew became fully known throughout the nation, sabotage doubled. Seven trains have been derailed, five loaded tanker barges have been sunk in the Danube, and fires have been started in the petrol area. , , The Iron Guard is again practising murder and violence with the object of eliminating possible opposition to German rule. Berlin pays the Iron

Guard members. RUSSIA’S CHIEF OF STAFF SUCCESSOR TO ZHUKOV MARSHAL SHAPOSHNIKOV RECALLED LONDON, November 2. Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov has been appointed Chief of the Russian General Staff. He was Chief of Staff until some months ago when he resigned owing to ill-health. Marshal Zhukov was then appointed Chief of Staff to succeed Marshal Shaposhnikov. and held the position until he was appointed chief of the Moscow defences. Marshal Shaposhnikov is no\V recalled to his former post. He is consiclered to be Russia’s foremost strategist The messages from Kuibishev announcing Marshal Shaposhnikov’s appointment also report that Marshals Voroshilov and Budenny are forming reserve armies, Marshal Timoshenko having succeeded Marshal Budenny in the Ukraine. . j . . .. Compulsory military training for all male residents in Kuibishev has been introduced, along with other measures to strengthen the war-time organisation of this seat of part of the Government. „ . . , Travellers from Kuibishev have quoted instances of the Russians attempting to halt tanks with clubs when their ammunition is exhausted. The travellers said that British and American supplies must be speeded up tenfold if Russia is to be enabled to stem the German drives. They also claimed that the battle for Moscow was the fiercest of the campaign, and that the Germans were suffering terrific losses in men and materials.