UNITS RECALLED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24106, 27 October 1941, Page 7

UNITS RECALLED

DEFENCE OF CAUCASUS RUSSIANS' NEW ARMIES "CAN RESIST FOR YEARS" (Reed. S.r>:t p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 20 The Teheran correspondent of the Associated Press says the Red Army Command at Tiflis has recalled mechanised units from northern Iran for the defence of Caucasia. Tanks and armoured cars from Kazvin and Zenjan have already started for Tabriz en route to the Russian frontier. A Russian cavalry division in the Lake Urmia district has sent back two regiments, and Russian Air Force units were removed to the north of Tabriz a week ago. Reports from Kuibyshev state that M arshals Budenny and Voroshiloff have been charged with the formation of new arm ies. M. 1 jozovsky, of the Soviet Bureau of Information, said Stalin and the National Council of Defence would appoint a successor to Marshal Voroshiloff in the Leningrad area at a later date. Marshal Timoshenko's southern command includes the Don Basin and the Crimea. General Zhukoff will be in supreme command of the battle for Moscow, while General Artemyeff commands the garrison of the city. M. Lozovskv said German propaganda alleged that the Soviet could not organise new formations. He declared that enormous forces were being trained under Marshal Budenny and Marshal Voroshiloff. The Germans would soon have practical proof- that the Soviet forces were far from being used up, but were increasing daily. "We can resist for several years." said M. Lozovsky. "It remains to be seen how much longer the Germans can stand the losses." Mr. J. L. Garvin, writing in the Observer, says Stalin's aim is to make German legions bleed to death in Russia. This. Mr. Garvin adds, is a long process, but the longer the more certain. The vast majority of people in Britain expect their country to lift its war production to the maximum between now and next year. They believe that help for Russia is a matter of life or death. NEED FOR DECISION NAZI LEADERS RECKLESS IRpcd. 0.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 2"> It is felt in London that not only prestige with the German people and eagerly-watching allies and neutrals, but also practical needs for satisfactory winter quarters, are forcing the Nazi leaders to throw in reserves almost, recklessly and attack with redoubled violence to achieve some definite result before many more weeks have passed. The Moscow newspaper Pravda says: "The enemy has superiority in mechanised and niotorised forces, but the resistance of the defenders is heroic. The enemy is still very strong, but we have inflicted heavy losses on him already, and vast reinforcements from the whole of Soviet Russia are arriving on the Moscow front." "WOODEN TANKS" LONDON. Oct. 20 A supplement to the midnight Moscow communique states that on one sector of the front last Thursday the Germans tried to give the impression of a lug attack by using wooden models of tanks, but this did not fool the Russians. AUSTRALIA AND RUSSIA SYDNKY, Oct. 26 The Australian Government is to consider representations that the Commonwealth should establish diplomatic relations with Russia. OFFICERS FROM PORTUGAL LONDON, Oct. 2r> Six Portuguese artillery officers are now ill Britain to study the training of the British Army and to visit. British war factories. They will see the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, and he attached for several >lays in each case to anti-aircrafl batteries and the AntiAircraft Corps School.