WINTER WARFARE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20638, 19 August 1941, Page 6

WINTER WARFARE

SOVIET PREPARES OFFENSIVE IN SPRING TOWNS STORE SUPPLIES (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 19, 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 18. The Russians are speeding up preparations for the winter campaign against Germany and a possible coun-ter-offensive next spring, reports the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent at J Moscow. Every Russian town is storing its own supply of fuel and food. The object of this is to keep the strategic net of the railways centred at Moscow free for the How of war materials. The Istanbul correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that the huge Russian army occupying a line across the north Caucasian area is ready to defend the rich oil lands. In addition the oil centres or Datum and Baku have formidable battle works set into the Caucasian mountains. The Moscow radio states it has been learned from Berlin that a former German military attache in Moscow has been shot for giving incorrect information regarding the strength of the Soviet army. Moscow is protected from air raids by a ring of hidden guns, says the Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. The guns emerge from the ground and hurl a heavy screen of fire and then disappear. The correspondent says that he inspected a battery of these guns in what appeared to be a harmless wheatfield.