MOSCOW BLACK-OUT RELAXED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 74, 24 September 1941, Page 7

MOSCOW BLACK-OUT RELAXED

LONDON, September 23

The Soviet has ordered a relaxation of the black-out of Moscow city, including the illumination of the squares and principal streets, except during air raids. Hitherto the city has been darkened completely

pine trunks rammed in the earth, and they say that the anti-tank belts are often 10 or 12 miles deep. Forest trees have been cut down to three feet above the ground, and there are concrete obstructions and miles of barbedwire entanglements. In addition, there is a great ring of forts fully protected against all except the heaviest bombs." Later. It is thought that Marshal Budenny may be able to save a large part of his army from the Kiev pincers. The Germans have scored a spectacular though costly victory around Kiev. It is thought that Marshal Budenny may yet succeed in withdrawing the bulk of his army to defend Kharkov and Rostov in the Donetz Basin, where, a great struggle may be expected. Marshal Budenny is holding up the enemy while he regroups his main army for the defence of Russia's industrial south. In* the north, the German forces are still 20 miles from Leningrad. Marshal Timoshenko's operations in the central sector are apparently local in character, and cannot be regarded for the time being as constituing a major thrust. '