RUSSIANS MASTERS OF THE AIR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 293, 12 December 1941, Page 5

RUSSIANS MASTERS OF THE AIR

THE EASTERN FRONT

NAZIS IN DIFFICULTIES SOVIET TANKS DO WELL i By Teiearaph—Press Association—Copyright.) London, <jec. 10. Important information bearing on the recent Russian successes has been received in authoritative quarters in London. The Russians now claim air superiority over the whole front, particularly round Moscow, and this claim is described as being based on good evidence. Russian heavy tanks have been doing especially well on the Moscow front, and in general the Russian tanks, because of their broader tracks, are more effective than the German tanks in the snow, with which the front is now covered. The new Valentine heavy tanks which have been operating in this sector have also done well, and have been found very satisfactory by the Russians. There is more and more evidence of the great difficulties the Germans are finding in the maintenance of mechanical transport. Moreover, nearly all prisoners taken by the Russians in the Moscow sector are stated to be very inadequately and filthily clothed. The main Russian successes appear to be especially in the Ukraine, ano against the German thrust from south of Tula toward Ryazan, while the recapture of Tikhvin appears to have restored the situation in the nortn. where the route from Leningad to Vologda had been cut by the German thrust from the south of Leningrad.