DIES FIGHTING

Opunake Times, 25 July 1941, Page 7

DIES FIGHTING

GIRL LIEUTENANT

RUSSIA’S PATRIOTS

A] German war cni-respondent reports having found the body of a pretty Russian girl lieutenant on Bialystok (western Pol anti) battlefield.

She was extremely pretty and did not look more than 17, he says.

She still clutched her rifle. Nearby was her suitcase containing lingerie and feminine footwear.

Moscow reports the formation of village armies - to co-operate with the defence and to engage in sabotage behind the German lines.

Speakers are firing them with accounts of how the "destrietive defence” of the peasants turned Napoleon’s maueh on, Moscow into one of history’s most disastrous defeats Moscow radio says that the civil population has given invaluable assistance in rounding up Fifth Columnists whom the Germans have parachuted ibiahind the Russian lines. The radio describes bow men and women, armed with axes and pitchforks, captured the crew of a • rashcd German bomber.