NEW CAMPAIGN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1941, Page 6

NEW CAMPAIGN

ONLY NOW BEGINNING RUSSIA’S BIG FORCE OF SKI TROOPS. ABOUT TO BE BROUGHT INTO ACTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.0 p.m.) LONDON. November 16. The “Telegraph’s” Kuibyshev correspondent says: “This is the coldest November experienced in Russia for many years. The Volga is freezing a month before the normal time. Snow covers all the fronts. The first ski patrols have appeared and a new trial of strength is beginning—between Germany and Russian skiiers. The Red Army has a large force of ski troops. Marshal Timoshenko insisted that the Finnish lesson be applied and hundreds of thousands of troops last winter made long marches on skis. Russia’s winter sportsmen, comprising practically all the country’s athletes, have not yet been in action against the Germans. They have been held back for the campaign now beginning.”

GERMAN CLAIM

INFANTRY IN THE STREETS OF KERCH. “NOW OVERCOMING LAST RESISTANCE.” (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, November 16. The Berlin radio claims that German infantry fought their way into the streets of Kerch and are now overcoming the last Russian resistance.

KILLED IN RUSSIA

ANOTHER GERMAN GENERAL. INTIMATE ASSOCIATE OF HITLER. I LONDON, November 16. The German radio says .that General von Neuville has been killed in action in Russia. Von Neuville was one of Herr Hitler’s most intimate collaborators, and he played an important part in Germany’s rearmament and military education.