GERMANS WARNED
MORE HARD BATTUES AHEAD BAD ROADS IN R I SSI V Rugby, Oct.. 11. In spite of a typically boastful statement issued this afternoon by the WilI hclmstras-e to the effect that the Rus sian power of resistance has been utterly crushed as a result of the last terrific German offensive, official comment by Berlin wireless this evening i>n the German High Command communique warned the Germans that the mass levy of Soviet forces had not yet | come to an end. "Our troops will have to stand up to quite a number of hard battle: ." the broadcast said. “We have had to at | tack on a straight line front an enemy j who. unlike the French, had in time recognised the value of tanks and was m possession of a sufficiently strong air force. The position is made more difficult by the bad roads in Russia, where a single fall of rain is sufficient to transform highways into impassable mud. “The farther the German troops advance the mere they are departing from their supply bases, while the Russians are getting near • • to theirs. So far as our rear communications are concerned, there arc only bad roads and the railway lines of a gauge different from that in Germany. Moreover, the front has extended to over 1000,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 13 October 1941, Page 5
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