TERRIFIC DAMAGE
RED PLANES' ATTACKS
HEAVY COST TO THE ENEMY
MEN AND MATERIALS
(Rec. 2.30 p.m.)
RUGBY, Dec. 1
Details of the terrific damage which the Red air force has inflicted on the German forces are contained in a supplementary communique, which states that Russian planes yesterday (Sunday) destroyed and put out of aciion 216 German tanks. 600 carts. 1500 motor vehicles carrying troops and supplies, 32 field guns, 30 anti-tank guns and mortars, 400 cars carrying military equipment, and large fuel dumps, and routed at least three infantry regiments.
It is reasonable to surmise that it was during the Russian advance beyond Rostov that a large part of this damage was inflicted, although, as is indicated in the communique, the enemy's continued fierce attacks on the central front have also been costing him dear.—B.O.W.
PRISONERS OF WAR
TREATMENT BY NAZIS
ANSWER TO THE SOVIET
(Rec. 2.30 p.m.)
WASHINGTON, December 1
The German Embassy made public today a statement from Berlin expressing surprise that M. Molotov, the Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs, should have made a diplomatic protest against Germany's alleged violation of international law in the treatment of Russian prisoners of war. .
The statement said the German Government had given facilities to representatives of the Red Cross to visit
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 133, 2 December 1941, Page 8
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