RED ARMY CASUALTIES CAUSE UNFAVOURABLE COMMENT
FAILURE OF SHELLS AND BOMBS TO EXPLODE
(United Press Association— Telegraph Copyright) (Received December 27, 10.25 p.m.) MOSCOW, December 27. Alarming reports are beginning to circulate. The Red Army casualties are stated to be between 25,000 and 30,000 dead and 30,000 to 40,000 wounded, frostbitten, ill, captured or deserted. Such figures are not a calamity for an army of such size, but they create talk not redounding to the credit of the regime. Reports that the Russians are ill-clothed are causing surprise, because the Russian Government has previously boasted about this matter. Lack of gloves is reported to be preventing the use of rifles in the freezing weather. It is also whispered that too many shells and bombs do not explode. Communiques continue to give the impression that activity is confined to patrolling and skirmishing. The official newspaper Pravda publishes the names of a number of factory managers and workers summoned to appear before the Moscow People’s Tribunal.
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Southland Times, Issue 24010, 28 December 1939, Page 7
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