WEATHER FACTOR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 29 October 1941, Page 6

WEATHER FACTOR

THE EASTERN FRONT HARD TIME SEEN I OR GERMAN; ' ALL TROOPS NOT s| IT A I.EY PREPARED lllumil itinjf del lils <.l Ihi < 1 ‘ ‘ ations on ti.i- I iHirn Front anim*ntat<;rs tend to concentrate / attention on the weather. I The Stockholm corn pondent < , Moscow have already had a taste of . and rain with 0 ”; mg around freezing point. They admit ’ | thi is very trying and are consoling • themselves during such periods with i! thoughts that it will not endure Inn:* : m Central Russia and that a "Jinn- i " winter must soon settle down. 1 Competent observers in Stockholm : believe tfiaL only part.; of the gigantic German army are likely to be suitably I protected, whereas the winter has no , ■ ui pt ises for the Ruj ian . ~! Discussion of the weather was stirn L , ulaled to day by the sudden descent j I of cold in Sweden with a temperature’ l tigrade. A . ngk* in ;fit. , ! e would inevitably . fleet the made ’ Ij quutely sheltered and clothed troops. j especially / when they realise it is mere j] Jy a foretaste of the unknown horrors! y! of a real Russian winter in the open, l-j Therefore, the German supply problem is greatly intensified by the necoI sity for providing the soldiers with | tolerably comfortable warmth. RUSSIAN COINTi: K-ATT AIKS a ( Rec. 2.10 p.m.t London, Oct. 28. it Soviet troops to-day launched coun. 1 • s ! ter-attacks on all sectors of the Mo:;-' d cow front, according to the "Red Star,” j and made “some headway.” .3 Continually flinging in fresh reserves. e the Germans are concentrating their *' 11am forces on the right and left wing., of this front. The "Red Star” admitted that the ; c German drive in the Donetz Basin is p not yet halted. * The Moscow radio declared that the " Germans in the first unsuccessful offensive against the Crimea between 24th September and Ist October lost , 30.000 killed and wounded. The Gei- • mans then began a second offensive h and suffered 20,000 casualties in the 1 c j first four or five days, j The Moscow “Pravda” states that 1 German casualties totalled 300.000 in , I | the past fortnight.—U P.A.