RUSSIAN SACRIFICES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1943, Page 7

RUSSIAN SACRIFICES

"Unequalled in Any Free Country"

' (Rec. 10.20 a.m.) 1 . NEW YORK, January 29.----i The fortitude and sacrifices of the I Russian people are unequalled in any free country, according to- travellers who have arriyed from Moscow, says the "Herald Tribune." Dwellings in Moscow are so cold that frost forms on the walls. Men, women, and children live and sleep in all their wearing apparel, including overcoats, boots, and gloves. Food', is scarce and inadequate; potatoes cost five dollars' a pound,, and money was worth little. A barter system has been developed, in which even funerals are paid for by exchange of goods. : . '

still had to storm the' streets. When the main railway station was in Russian hands German troops still held out in defended wagons on sidings and they were driven out at the point of the bayonet. The Germans .finally broke out to the south and west, but ; only to find a Russian force waiting to destroy them. ' : -•.:■•.-.. THREAT TO NAZIS is' CAUCASUS. On the Caucasus front, the main German line of escape is increasingly threatened as the Russian spearheads approach . the Rostov railway. The columns closing in on Tikhoretsk and Kropotkin have only ; a few miles to go. The Axis troops holding the great oil country in the Maikop area are now threatened on three sides as the result of the latest Russian capture.

Somewhere on the Caucasus front the Russians are fighting for the complete destruction of a',large German mechanised; column which they encircled last night.