BLITZ TRUMPED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 5 August 1941, Page 9

BLITZ TRUMPED

SOVIET DEFENCES } GAINING POWER FIGHTING TEMPER NAZI PRESS ADMISSION (E'.cc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Ail". 4, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 3. “Much blood and some progress" summarised to-day’s reports to Berlin concerning the Russian campaign. Dispatch after dispatch emphasised the bitterness of the Russian resistance. The Germans claim that the Russian losses are extremely heavy, but evidence is not lacking that heavy sacrifices are being exacted from the Germans. The Voelkischer Beobachter declared!" 11 Germany found in the Red Army an enemy who battled with dogged tenacity, surpassing all previous opponents in fighting temper.” The Moscow paper Izvestia said: “We are not hurrying with a statement that the Fascist army has been smashed, but the blitzkrieg trump has been beaten. Our resistance is growing and gaining strength.” Moscow Air Defences With no better success reportable after last night’s raid on Moscow than previously, the Luftwaffe apparently is changing its tactics. .For the first time for many days raids were reported against military objectives in the southern Ukraine and the upper Volga regions. The Sunday Express says that Russia will probably reveal to Britain the secret of the air raid defences which have caused Germany enormous losses during nine attempts to bomb Moscow. The greatest number of Nazi bombers ever to penetrate Moscow’s outer defences was seven of a force of 150. “Experts are asking what is Moscow’s defence secret. ‘ Probably it is thing along the lines of Britain’s radio location warning system,” adds the paper.