Russian Veterans Overwhelm Japanese

Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 189, 11 August 1945, Page 5

Russian Veterans Overwhelm Japanese

IRRESISTIBLE URGE TO SMASH LAST HOTBED OF MILITARISM. Received Saturday, 1.26 a.m. LONDON, August 10. “The initial Russian successes in Manchuria were due not only to super for equipment and strategy but also the overall tremendous enthusiasm of the troops and their irrisistible urge to smash the last hotbed of militarism as quickly as possible,” says the Pravda correspondent in the first dispatch from Manchuria. “The experience gained during the four years of fighting against the Get mans and thorough preparation enabled the Red Army to gain a considerable early success. The Japanese were unable to hold their defensive line along the Manchurian frontier. Describing the capture of Manchouli, the first Manchurian town to fall to the Red Army, the correspondent adds: “The Russian infantry moved in behind tanks and armoured cars, crossed the Augun River and attacked the town from several points. Armour quickly crushed the outer defences and the infantry carried the inner fortified area ' by storm.”

The Exchange Telegraph’s Moscow correspondent says late dispatches from the Manchurian front state that Russian tanks pouring through the gaps opened by artillery deepened significantly the penetrations into Manchuria. Cossacks as well as infantrymen following up the tanks are mopping up. Veteran Red Air Force pilots closely supporting the Red Army ground forces include the leading fighter ace Major Ivan Kozhedud who has 62 German planes to his credit.