COLD NAZIS DIG IN OUTSIDE MOSCOW

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 45, 17 November 1941, Page 7

COLD NAZIS DIG IN OUTSIDE MOSCOW

LONDON, November 16. The Russians report from Kuibyshev that the Germans have cut the vital railway line from Leningrad to Vologda in the region of Tikhvin, 100 miles east-south-east of Leningrad. The Germans have thus cut Leningrad’s remaining indirect railway link with Moscow, and the Russians are opposing strong forces which are attempting to join ■with the Finns, cutting Leningrad’s communications across Lake Ladoga. On the Donetz front the enemy are making ‘ dreary and hard progress from one burnt-out or flooded coal-pit to the next wrecked factory,” Kuibyshev reports. . The Russians say that in the Crimea heavy fighting has been going on after the Germans redoubled their efforts to get a foothold at Sebastopol and Kerch: The enemy are recklessly sacrificing thousands of men. The position is serious, but the defences are being held firmly. The Germans are keeping up their pressure in the Tula and Kalinin sectors, but the Soviet spokesman, M. Lozovsky, said that the Germans were on the defensive in many sectors on the Moscow front. The Germans are digging themselves in for a winter campaign, but we will dig them out again and bury them properly,” he said. The Russian winter is coming into its own. ‘ Pravda reports a sharp fall in the temperatures on all the battlefields, and says that some Germans have already been found frozen to death. The fiist frozen tanks have been seen, and snowdrifts on the battlefields are hindeiing others.