BLEAK PROSPECT
NAZIS LOOK AT EASTERN FRONT
LONDON, January 12. The bleak prospect facing the German soldier on the Western Front as Russia's true winter begins is underlined by articles in German newspapers. A writer in "Volkischer Beobachter* says that the situation of the German soldier in the east is much the same as in the trenches in some of the worst sectors on the Western Front during the last war. The temperature in "the sunnyCrimea," according to the "Hamburger Fremdenblatt," is 40 degrees belowzero. Illusions about the "Bolshevik Riviera" were lost long ago. • "Supply columns march through ice and storm, the. Black Sea bears Russian destroyers which bombard the coastal road, in the sky are Russian! night bombers, and from foggy gorges: at dawn come shock troops up to our i trenches," says the newspaper. i
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1942, Page 5
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