RUSSIAN RAILWAYS
THEY STOOD THE STRAIN WORKMEN GIVE ONE DAI'S FREE WORK. (Recd. 10 p.m.) Moscow, Aug. 12. Twenty million roubles were handed to the National Defence Fund as the result of a "free” day's work by Soviet railwaymen and their families. More than 1,300,000 workers gave one Sunday to assist the railways, for which they took ho pay. Many observers thought communications would prove the weakest link in the Soviet defence. Official quarters admit the railways were subjected to severe strain in the first days of the war, but they stood the test. Large numbers of maintenance men are always stationed ready Io repai." lhe track at any point. As a result there has been no serious hold-up on vital lines. Furthermore, a vast quantity of rolling stock has been brought back from western Russia and the Baltic States. Railwaymen, before abandoning any section, always destroy the operative parts and also any equipment they are unable to bring away.—U.P.A.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 190, 14 August 1941, Page 5
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