BRITISH TANKS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24133, 27 November 1941, Page 9

BRITISH TANKS

MOSCOW FRONT SUCCESS PRAISED BTRUSSIANS EFFECTIVE FIRE POWER l-ondon, Nov. 25 The British United Press correspondent at Kuibyshev reports that British tanks have been in action for the first time on the Moscow front, where they are winning high praise. A Soviet tank commander said small units of British tanks wiped out two enemy battalions and mortar nests, and also repulsed German attacks against two villages. He dded that shells from the British a l- mine niereed even the heavy tank guns pierced German an " . summing up The iiewsp a per _ > Moscow the genera siu Cermans in the front states that t » direction of Kim north we: S°oviet SU Soops slightly in exceedingly violent engagements. Red Army troops Jn the Volokalamsk direction beat ott enemy attacks and launched counterattacks. In some sectors the defenders retired to new lines better for defence. The Russian forces beat off_ a number of enemy attacks in the Mojaisk direction A" German attempt to turn the Soviet flank was repulsed with heavy losses by artillery fire. The German effort can be summed up as progressing to a frantic climax. They have suffered tremendous losses, but keep on ignoring them. One of the Russians' greatest hopes is that supply problems may yet cause the final breakdown of the German offensive because it is becoming more and more difficult for the Germans to find sufficient vehicles to replace those destroyed by Stormovik dive-bombers, apart from road and weather difficulties. A Soviet communique gives details of air successes 011 the south-western and southern fronts. Thirty-nine tanks seven armoured cars, 760 lorries with enemy soldiers, five petrol tanks 25 s „„ s and over ICO carts with Mi were destroyed. Two regiments of infantry and more tlhan one platoon ol enemy cavalry were routed.