CARE FOR GUERRILLAS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1944, Page 7

CARE FOR GUERRILLAS

Soviet Medical Service Rec. 9 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 20. A British surgeon who has returned from Russia told the "Daily Telegraph" that the Russians maintain a daily medical aerial transport service to the guerrillas. Even damaged dentures are flown back, repaired, and returned. iiiiiiiiiiiHiiniiiim"'"'""" 1"1"1""11111" 11"11""1"1""""" 11 to Dno and the shores of Lake Ilmen, a sweep which should bring the Rus- ! sians north-west of the great German i fortress of Staraya Russa, about 140 i miles south-east of Leningrad. The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm "Dagens Nyheter" quotes the German military spokesman as saying that the new offensive in the Leningrad-Volkhov area is the heaviest fhe Russians have ever launched in the northern sectors. The correspondent claimed that the battles at present raging were so gigantic that all other events on the Russian front paled into insignificance. The spokesman admitted that the Russians were determined to roll up the whole German line between Leningrad and Lake Ilmen. NO HOPE OF ESCAPE. Dispatches describe the plight of the masses of Germans now cut off by the link-up of the two Russian armies south-west of Leningrad. Considerable German forces are involved in the threat of disaster on the Leningrad front. They have been cut off by the linking up of the two Russian armies west of Leningrad, and are being attacked without any hope of escape. Russian j bombers, operating from snow-covered bases, are attacking German strongpoints and interfering with the flow, from far behind the battle front, of reserves and supplies.