RESISTANCE GROWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24138, 3 December 1941, Page 7

RESISTANCE GROWS

RED ARMY TROOPS ALL PARTS OF FRONT MUCH BOOTY CAPTURED (Eecd. 12.15 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 2 The news from the eastern front indicates that, on all sectors, the Russians are offering even stronger resistance, says the British official wireless. Such resistance is outstandingly successful in the Rostov sector. As a result of the rout of von Kleist's army the Russians have captured at least 188 tanks, 210 field guns, 306 machine-guns, 178 mortars, 4050 rifles, 871 motor vehicles and a large amount . of other material. In addition 102 enemy aeroplanes have been destroyed. Much booty has also been captured by Soviet units on the Moscow front. One Soviet unit on the central front in the past eight days occupied 15 villages and captured tanks and other material. Successes have also been gained by the Russians on the north-west front, according to the Moscow radio, which states that on December 1, after three days' fierce fighting in the region of Lake S, Soviet troops reoccupied their former positions. Complete figures, Bays a Moscow report, show tha;t Soviet troops from November 26 to 28 annihilated about 2500 German officers and men on the north-west front, destroyed guns and ammunition dumps and silenced a number of batteries. CAUCASUS THREAT (Reed. 6.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 2 "The relief gained at Rostov, even though the threat to the Caucasus will certainly be renewed, is a great deal in itself," says the Times. "More encouraging still is its proof that, after five hard months adversity, the Russian spirit is still unbroken and—still aggressive." FASTEST CROSSING I • 1 ' AMERICAN-BUILT BOMBER (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 1 The fastest west-to-east crossing of the Atlantic by a Ferry Command aircraft has been made by an Americanbuilt Liberator bomber, which arrived in Britain to-day, says the British official wireless. From take-off to touchdown the flight took eight hours and 23 minutes. The aircraft was piloted by Captain O. P. Kones, formerly well known to passengers in Imperial Airwaysf and British Overseas Airways machines. The previous fastest west-to-east crossing was by a Liberator and a Boeing Fortress) both of which made the trip in eight hours and 54 minutes. MARSHALS ECLIPSED ZURICH, Dec. 1 A message from Rome says that, with the capitulation of Gondar, the last Italian stronghold in Abyssinia, Marshals Badoglio and Graziani have disappeared from the public eye. Marshal Badoglio is at present a guest at the Royal Palace. Marshal Graziani is in a nursing home for nervous complaints. FREIGHTER MISSING NEW YORK, Dec. 1 The Associated Press says the TJnited States Maritime Commission's freighter Macßeth, flying the Panama flag, has been posted ; as missing. "Unofficial reports to-day said she had been torpedoed.