FROZEN TO DEATH

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21600, 10 December 1941, Page 5

FROZEN TO DEATH

FATE OF GERMANS MORE RUSSIAN SUCCESSES STRONG COUNTERATTACK (United Press assa. —Elec. Tel. Copyright; (Received Dec. 10, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 9 “We will not advance further on the Moscow front this winter,” said the German military spokesman. “The Russian winter has held Germany up before Moscow and Leningrad. We will resume operations in 1942, when Japan’s intervention may have created advantageous conditions.” The campaign has been started with the arrival of winter to intensify the training of Russian youths in the use of skis. The Russians welcome the winter, believing that they are far more experienced in facing it than the Germans. The Tass Agency reports that Soviet counter-attacks in the Mojaisk area have cleared the enemy from several villages. The Russians have also dislodged the enemy from a point in the Volokalamsk region and inflicted heavy losses. The Germans desperately attempted to recapture this position, but Russian artillery routed their infantry. The Russians entered another village in the Volokalamsk area and found many Germans frozen to death. The Berlin radio admitted that fierce Russian attacks are developing in the northern sector of the Russian front. Very Low Temperature The most recent reports from the Eastern Front, which indicate that Russian counter-attacks north and south of Moscow are meeting with certain success, would also appear to bear out the statements contained in yesterday’s German High Command communique that the fighting in the East was dependent on the setting in of the Russian winter.

Today’s German High Command communique says that only local attacks are proceeding on the Eastern Front.

The temperature in Moscow is minus 20 degrees centigrade, that at Penza (between Moscow and Kuibyshev) minus six, and there is nine inches of snow.

German air activity also appears to have been restricted by the weather recently and there are very small signs of recent air attacks in Moscow, where life is reported to be proceeding quite normally.