ARCTIC FRONT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1942, Page 3

ARCTIC FRONT

FEARS OF ANGLO-SOVIET OFFENSIVE ENTERTAINED BY NAZIS. REINFORCEMENTS RUSHED NORTH. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, January 3. The Germans are rushing up reinforcements to the northernmost tip of. the Eastern Front, fearing a joint British-Russian offensive ' which they expect within a few days, says the “Sunday Express’” Stockholm correspondent. Several Russian infantry divisions have been concentrated in the Murmansk sector, where fighting has flared up in the past few days. The Russians, after occupying Tulomaelven, 10 miles south of Kola, arc now driving up the Tuloma River with the object of cutting the Arctic highway between the Finnish Arctic port of Petsamo and Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland, which is a most important German-Finnish operations base. The Germans are rushing thousands of Russian prisoners northward for the construction of fortifications.