DELAYING ADVANCE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 120, 16 February 1944, Page 5

DELAYING ADVANCE

Expected German Tactics (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February' 14. By their rapid sweep round along the eastern shores of Lake Peipus the Russians are now in a position to advance southward between Luga and Pskov, behind the German lines stretching from Lake Ilmen to the Novo Sokolniki sector. The Germans are expected to continue the tactics of holding up the advance everywhere as long as possible with the least possible losses. Hitherto, except in some parts of the Dnieper bend, these tactics., have been very effective. There are several possible defence positions guarding their northern flank between the Baltic and the White Russian front, to which they could slowly fall -back. The Russian approach to Pskov means that the threat to Staraya Russa is becoming serious.

TOLL OF STARVATION Siege Of Leningrad N®W YORK, February 14. German shells and bombs killed an average of only six Russians a day in the 880 days of the siege of Leningrad, said the’President of the Leningrad Soviet, M. Popkoff, in an interview with a correspondent of the New York newspaper “P.M.” M. Popkoff said the total casualties were 20,000, most of them being deaths from starvation.