Ski Troops Appear In. Coldest November For Many Years
(Rec. 2 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. lfi. The “Daily Telegraph's” Samara correspondent says this is the coldest November experienced in Russia for many years. The Volga is freezing a month before normal, and snow covers all the fronts.
The first ski patrols have appeared, and a new trial of strength is beginning—between Russian and German skiers. The Red Army has a large force of such troops. Marshal Timoshenko insisted chat the Finnish lesson should be applied by hundreds of thousands of troops who last winter made long marches on skis. Russia’s winter sportsmen, com-
prising practically all the country’s athletes, have not yet been in action against the Germans. They have been held back for the campaign that is now beginning. A Moscow communique refers to the great losses of enemy troops, tanks, guns, armoured cars, lorries and supplies on the central and southern fronts caused by the Russian air force and guerillas. Four enemy transports totalling 36,000 tons were sunk in the Baltic in two days and a submarine hit a mine and blew up.
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Northern Advocate, 17 November 1941, Page 5
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