ONLY BEGINNING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 7 August 1941, Page 5

ONLY BEGINNING

WAR IN RUSSIA review of fighting to date HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES London, Aug.. 5 No matter what difficulties may be ahead, victory will be ours.” says the Soviet Army organ. “Red Star,” in summing up (lie first six weeks of lighting. 1 “Failing to drive deep wedges into Soviet territory with their armoured formations, the German High Command began to disperse the mechanised forces among the whole tremendous front, turning them into suppor for attacks hy the general troops, and thus the Germans’ main force of infantry and artillery came into action with all the technique of modern warfare,” it states. “The Nazi infantry, who had been | accustomed to having an uninterrupted advance after the tanks had cleared the way. were now compelled to engage in violent fighting. Our infantry and tanks incessantly attacked the motorised columns, inflicting tremendous losses in manpower and equipment. Now Hitler, who relied on his almighty tanks, is already beginning to talk | about rifles, “The conduct of a blitzkrieg does not i require reserves, but the real war which the Nazis have encountered in eastern Europe constantly demands fresh forces. No matter what army the Germans have they are numerically unequal to the Red Army, which is beat in/, back the invader but is still strategically on the defensive. “The Red Army troops, far from be i ing complacent, clearly realise that the enemy forces are great and that the ! war is just beginning.” I The Moscow correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” quotes a statement I by the Soviet writer Count Alexei Tol- , j stoi, who is in touch with Government j ! circles, that the Red Army in a week of, | particularly heavy fighting smashed up five German divisions and also a column of 300 tanks, which was (destroyed to the last machine. “DESTROY NAZI DOGS” Marshal Budenny, commander of the southern front, in a proclamation calls on the Russians in the territory occupied by the Germans to band together; jin guerrilla units and carry out fully Stalin’s scorched earth policy. “Those capable of bearing arms should join thep partisan units and ori ganise new detachments to destroy the , Nazi dogs, overturn trains and blow up | dumps. Do not allow an ounce of j I bread to reach the enemy. Harvest j I exactly as much as you need and | ! destroy the remainder. The hour of j victory is approaching," the proclam-! ! ation says. I ENEMY MORALE SAID TO BE j BE BROKEN , The deputy chief of the Moscow In- ’ ! formation Bureau, M. Lozovsky, at the . Press conference said: “The disintegration of the German army has be-; gun: its morale is broken. This is the! (surest sign that it is nearing ruin and I