MORE RESERVES USED

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 40, 17 February 1942, Page 5

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GERMANS REPELLED

(Rec. 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 18. A Russian night communique states: "On February 15 our troops cOntiriued* their offerisive. The enemy has thrown reserves into the battle. On different sectors of the front the Germans counter-attacked arid were repelled with heavy losses fbr them. "On Febrtiary 14 seven German planes. Were shot down; we lbst five. On February 15 three enemy planes were brought down near Moscow." A supplementary Russian communique says: "On February 14 Soviet air force units destroyed or damaged 125 lorries, with troops and equipment, -three transport buses, 60 ammunition wagons, and 11 guns, and blew up one ammunition dump, set fire to 20 railway wagons, and routed and partly annihilated three infantry battalions. "During the period from February 1 to 14 the Germans lost 269 planes— 13? in aerial combat, 34 shot down by anti-aircraft guns, and 98 destroyed on the grourid. Our losses Were 83."— 8.0.W, y Australian representative and the British departmental official will secure the Australian colour in the picture. Higher up the scale, as the actual policy takes shape, further departmental consultation may be necessary, while at the highest plane the War Cabinet discussion will take place. "This indispensable vertical liaison, which interlocks the departmental views Of the two Governments at a different level, will need very little additional staff. The Australian representative on the Deferice Committee or the War Cabinet will be in a position to argue a case on an equal footing with the other represented Governments. "This machinery has proved general ,in its possibility bf application. Britain is making it:available not merely to the Dominion Governments for Empire consultation, but also an approved modification of it tb the Dutch Government as far as the Pacific War Council is concerned. The Pacific War Council, with its facilities, becomes in effect the Defence Committee for the area which it controls."—B.O.W.