of. well-trained

{ by a galaxy of brilliant
erals are Sweeping forward
ne of the greatest military
mpaigns in all history.

q Despite ihe ‘formidable de- ~
Wises with which the Germans
ive reinforced the desolate
“H5w-eovered wastes of Nor-
‘ ¥, the lakes, swamps, forests
; ast Prussia, the high-wood-
“}' Carpathians in Poland and
: Gechslovakia, the Transylva-
Alps, the Danube and
#ers in ‘Yugaslavia, they are
i ding to the irresistible on-
: jught of the Soviet armies of
ipration.

™\ more difficult battlesround
Ra Northern Finland would
hard to find. Here is what
Gen. ‘Degen, commander of
20. 5 German Alpine Divi-
n saul in an order to his
a Ops: ;
a “The Russians will recoil
Al ‘om our strong points. And
piving bled them white we
y pall proceed with their ex-
?rmination. All the adyvan-
OP: ; =
iges are on our side. Not-
ithstanding political changes
1 Fmland, we must hold
Sus front. You know why
iis is necessary—we need

Op

a
iekel and copper and more-
Sser we must show the Rus-
-ans that-here’s a front they
ever shall breach.”

Mh OW, ten days after that or-
‘der was written the “impreg-

ble” front has disappeared,
ost of the general’s Alpine

excellently-equipped men .

dal

20 dhe. grey-misted fjords of northern Norway to the
_ placid sunlit waters of the Danube, powerful Soviet

uns and planes

troops are out of commission,
the nickel mines written off,
vital bases from which the Al-
lied conyoys were attacked are
in Red Army hands and the
flag of free Norway is flying
from the Town Hall in Kirke-
nes.

But Soviet eyes are glued not
on Kirkenes and not on the
Balkans. They are focussed on
East Prussia. I can recall but
two events that have occasioned
Sreater joy than the entry of

_ Soviet troops into German ter-—

ritory: the news telling of Hit-
ler’s retreat from Moscow in
1942, the other the encircle-

ment of the Germans at Stalin--

grad.

With innate simple straight-
forwardness Red Army men
upon crossing the
border chalked on signposts,
doors, everywhere, the phrase
Thrice Accursed Germany —
Here She Is At Last. Every
shell sent against crumbling
German strong points bears
chalked imscriptions, sometimes
words for Stalingrad, for Khar-
koy. Kiéy, Leningrad, but often

the shells bear the name of,

towns and villages razed by the
Germans. -

Yesterday, when the guards-
men’ cleared Goering’s hunting
forest at Rominten and cap-
tured his hunting lodge, one of
the guards chalked up on the
bars of the lodge-gate, ““We’ve
Got the Hunting Ground—Now
for the Hunter.” One thing is
absolutely certain——there will
be no coddling of Germans by
the Russian soldiers.

Prussian |

UCH of the transport ie
ties bearing men and supplies
deeper into Hast Prussia are
produced im American factories.
Columns of Studebakers and
jeeps fill the roads. German

prisoners marching eastward,

_eurse “these American ma-
chines” that transport Red _
Army men to the west. ie

‘Much credit for the Red
Army’s forward surge along —

‘the entire front is due to the

magnificent. effort of the Soviet -

Union’s 25 million trade union
members. During the eight

months between the fall of 1941

and the summer of 1942, hun-

-dreds of factories were dis-

mantled and equipment was

ship ed, with a total of one and

a qu rter million freight ears,
+o the east. While the machin-
ery was  enr oute, building
trades workers remained on the
job day and night getting new

premises ready.
3)

* ers,

&

PLA. Features, November 18 — Page 3

AE ae of hundreds of
thousands of industrial work-
trainloads of machinery
from the Ukraine and Lenin-
grad to the Asiatic side of the
Ural Mountains is one of the

really big stories of the war.
Its writing will enable people

of the world to understand this

BUSSES miracle.

: Despite _ ineredible wartime.
hardships, the housing shor-
tage, minimum food rations,

difficulties of obtaining shoes
and clothes, Russia’s trade
unionists in 1942 supplied the
Red Army with four planes for

every plane supplied in 1941,
‘with seven tanks,
' and ten mortars for every tank,

eight guns
gun and mortar

ty has improved with quantity.
The latest models of the Yaks

and avs are recognized as the
“best all-round fighter aircraft
‘Phe Stormovik, ter- a
xor of German tank columns, is

in service.

peveay: Fjords. to the Danube

generally admited best of its
kind of plane anywhere. A new
heavy tank ‘“Kotina” demon-
strated its fighting - qualities
over the German’ King Tiger.
As for the Soviet artillery, if

4,000 Germans killed by gun-
fire during the initial bom-
bardment of the Hast Prussian
fortress could only speak, they.
would tell that tale.

In “order that gunshells and
tanks could be delivered to the .

front line for the great offen>

sive, railroad workers’ had to-~
repair 18,750 miles of railways i
—a distance from Cherbourg

all the way across Burope and
produced at ~
the beginning of the war. Qualic=:

Asia to new factory towns be-

yond the Vladivostok and back

again. The Urals may have un-

familiar sounding names, but

their contribution to the swell-

ing fund of Allied victory are
none the ‘less for all that.

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