Show s I i l R 2 Fore r i q n The Salt Lake T Telegram ram Monday Evening February 23 23 1942 The Moscow radio declared that the red navy had sunk 81 warships 81 and auxiliary vessels carrying carrying carry carry- ing hundreds of tanks and guns and tens of thousands of shells in the first seven of the eight months that Germany and Russia have been ta to war But no further resume of fighting was at once forthcoming Customarily the soviet Information information information tion bureau clearing house for the red army's lumps the most important victory reports in an occasional special com com- On the other hand the German high command command presumably ably to steal in advance the thunder thunder thunder thun thun- der of any big Russian victory announcement repeated announcement repeated in some detail previous claims of heavy Russian losses in fruitless ss at at- tacks Claim Prisoners From J January n ary 1 to February 20 the Germa Germans sa said sad d Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian prisoners had had been taken The bloody loody losses of the enemy represent many times that figure Berlin boasted then gave a list of Russian material seized or destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de in the same period In ln the Mediterranean theater the axis reported aerial destruction destruction destruction tion of a British convoy off Sidi Egypt with two merchant merchant merchant mer mer- chant ships sunk air raids on Malta and a British airdrome in eastern Libya with destruction of 21 British planes and patrol clashes aground with British imperials imperials imperials im im- im- im in Libya The Cairo headquarters of the British repeated the report of patrol patrol patrol pa pa- actions and said the Germans and Italians were showing more resistance both aground and in the air The R RAF F sal the British patrols bombed axis rear positions and the Libyan battle line was reported reported reported re re- ported relatively stabilized The R RAF A F based In Britain re reported reported reported re- re ported overnight bombing bombing of ports and other objectives in northwest Germany as well as docks at Ostend Belgium Berlin acknowledged slight damage and some civilian casualties from an R A F attack In the Hel Hel- goland bight area Stalin pledged to the Russians that we shall throw the enemy from the gates of Leningrad and liberate white Russia the Ukraine and the Crimea The red banner will fly everywhere everywhere everywhere every every- where it has flown before He said new units must be sent to the front industry must work with redoubled vigor and the army must receive more tanks plan planes s guns and other arms every day |