RUSSIAN TECHNIQUE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24000, 25 June 1941, Page 7

RUSSIAN TECHNIQUE

WAR CORRESPONDENT'S VIEW

SAW CAMPAIGN IN FINLAND (Reed. 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 21

Describing his experiences as the Sun's war correspondent in the Grecian and Finnish campaigns, .Mr. James Aldridge, who has returned to Sydney with an injured back, paid tribute to the gameness, toughness and resourcefulness of the Australian soldier. He said the weapon of to-day was not the rifle but the tommy-gun. There was still need for in-fighting, he explained, but to persist in training infantrymen solely with rifles and bayonets cost men and material for victory.

Mr. Aldridge, who saw the whole of the Russo-Finnish campaign, said the Russians put only second-line troops into the war at the outset, but later Red Army divisions, wonderfully equipped, showed truly what Russian technique had evolved. He was confident they would triumph against Hitler. DRIVE ON BATUM GERMANS IN BLACK SEA NAVAL CRAFT OPERATING LONDON. .Tune 2:s Supporting the Turkish belief that the main German thrust will skirt North Moldavia to the Ukraine, thence heading to the Caucasus, the Turks declare that a complementary thrust will be a sea-borne one to Batum with a covering attack against the Crimea. Barges have already been assembled at the mouths of the Danube. A German High Command communique to-day stated: "fn the Black Sea, a mixed force of light German and, Rumanian naval craft was unsuccess-. fully bombarded by Soviet coast,?il batteries during a reconnaissance sort ie." The German High Command ,aKo claims that German R-boats penetrated Soviet coastal waters in the eastern Baltic, sinking one patrol boat and four merchant ships. PARTITION OF RUSSIA BERLIN COUNTS CHICKENS (Reed. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 21 The Berlin radio broadcast an article by Rosenberg, the Nazi cultural leader, who wrote: "'A military victory over Russia would solve the problem ol many nationalities which the-Bolsheviks have enslaved. The problem/of Russia proper remains, but treaclicii'ous Moscow has forfeited the chance of keeping even the old Russian territory in the future Russian State."

Other German propaganda proposes autonomy for Polasnd, the Ukraine, White Russia and |he Caucasus, and visualises a revolution in the remainder of the Sonet Union.,