The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-11
BRITISH FIGHTER
 PLANES IN RUSSIA
Hundreds of Them Rushed to Help SOviets Block
 Nazis Until Winter
BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR. United Press Stan COrrespoEdent)

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 London, Sept. ll-(UP)-Hun- dreds of Royal Air Force fighter planes have been sent to aid the Russian airforce against the Luit- waffe on the eastern front, officials said today, as the Germans launched new drives in race against the swift approach of wln- ter.
 Snow has started falling in Fin- land, where a big-scale Nazi push against Murmansk was reported res newed, according to British infor- nation.
 Another German push southeaSy- ward through the Gornel sector al- so was reported. It was an apparent effort to offset the Russian counter. offensive on the central front, and the battle for Lendi.. rad continued without important change of posi- tons.
 Both of the reported new Ger man tiirusts were part of the Nazl race to consolidate their gains and to seize strategic positions before winter slows down or paralyZeS fighting, but the extent of the Murmansk operations was still un- certain.
 First Important Aid
 Dispatch of Royal Air Force fight- CT planes (British pilots preSuTn. ably would be essential to operation of the fiShterO marked the first important cooperation of British and Russian armed forces on the eastern 3rnot and indicated the de- termination Of London to help maintain the strongest possible winter front in Russia.
 The Russian counter drives all along the eastern front were ra- garded here as making the German race against winter more difficult every day.
 Radio Helsinki broadcast the news that snow had started to fall Tues- day in northern Finland, whence 1t will come southward in the course of the next few weeks to blanket the eastern front for the duration of the grim Russian winter, and, if the Russians hold, to stabilize the fighting lines.
 So urgent was the necessity In German minds for an impressive victory-at least the capture of Lem ingrad-before winter set in, that belief increased among military ex- perts that if other means failed the German high command would ecsay the reckless gamble of drop- ping thousands of parachutiSts be- hind the Russian lines to win or die.
 Halt Keningrad Pressure
 There were increasing indications that the big counter offensive of Russia's central army under Mar shal Semyon Timoshenko would re. lieve pressure on Leningrad soon unless the Germans could stop It.
 Timoshenko'S right wing under Gen. Ivan RakovSky was driving the Germans back towardr smolensk and his left wing under Gen. I. A. Konev was pushing back the Ger mans to the south.
 The German right wing under Field Marshal Fedor Won Block faced the threat of being driven back into the Pripet marshes to de- struction unless the Russians were stopped.
 According to advices reaching military quarters here, Timoshenko has been able to throw fresh tanks, guns and planes into his drive and there were indications that he had thrown the Germans back across the upper Dnieper south of SmOl- enSk,
 Easing their estimates of the sit- uation on Russian reports and on German admissions of strong Rus. sian counter attacks, experts said that a continued Russian attack must soon affect the position mol only of the southern front, the Ukraine, but of the northern one around Leningrad.
 ITimoshenko evidently was press ing his advantage to the utmost they said, in order to force the Ger. mans to relieve their pressure CT l 6CLllIlS1bQ 11td ANAth1ObSC SgSAs C0' pecially because Marshal Semyor Budenny was keeping the Germani and other Axis forces busy in ths south with his hornet-iike harassial thrusts across the Dnieper river.
 sFan Complies
 London, Sept. li-(UP)-IEan complying with a British. Russian ultimatum delivered Tuesday, ha begun to hand over German Ma tionals to British and Russian au thorities, 1t was announced today
 About TOO Germans had been re- ported "entrenched' with arms ol the German legation grounds a Iran. threatening to resist any ef fort to turn them over to the Brit Ish or Russians.
 The BTitish- Russian occupation technically. was due chiefly to Te fufsal Of Iran to expel several thou sand German fifth eolumnlsts whl were believed plotting to strike the Russian oil fields.
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