SECRET WEAPON
CARRIED BY RUSSIAN PLANES ANSWER TO PANZER TACTICS ACCORDING TO PRESS AGENCY MANAGER. ONLY REALLY NEW INVENTION OF THE WAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) MANILA, November 17. Mr Wallace Carrol, London manager of the United Press, upon his arrival from Russia, said a Russian fighter plane, equipped with a secret weapons which had been described as the only really new invention of the war, was probably the long-sought answer to German panzer tactics. Mr Carrol added that despite heavy losses of men and material, the Russian army remains a strong defensive force. The Red Air Force was still a powerful fighting organisation, and had taken a heavy toll of the Luftwaffe, besides giving the Russian Army strong support. VIOLENT FIGHTING ON THE MOSCOW FRONT. ■ (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 17. The Berlin news agency reports that the Russians are throwing in new units on the Moscow front, where violent fighting followed a Soviet coun-ter-attack, with a number of tanks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1941, Page 6
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