At the end of the eighth week of the German invasion of Russia, the third German offensive was reaching the height of its crescendo, with the Russians admitting intense fighting on all fronts. In the Ukraine, the Germans appear to have made some advance, but it is generally conceded that the Russian armies are retiring in good order, and that the Germans have failed of achieving that annihilation which they have been promising the world they would inflict upon their opponents. The loss of territory which the Russians have been obliged to yield cannot be lightly disposed of, even though the Germans themselves aver that territorial gains are not their first objective, but. the areas they have succeeded in penetrating are industrially and agriculturally rich. Yet they are being paid for at enormous cost to the invaders, and it is possible that when the truth of the expensiveness of this campaign tó the Germans comes to be known the world will find it difficult to believe that men could so ruthlessly slaughter their fellows for what up to the present have been very shallow successes.
Even if the recent Russian claims regarding the -losses"they say they have inflicted upon the enemy have to some extent to be discounted,—there is no real reason why they should be, in view of the comparative truth of the Russian communiques as compared with the blatant lying of the Germans,—it is still clear that the price the Germans have (been paying in men and material far outweighs any benefits they can hope immediately to receive from their temporary gains against the Soviet. The latest claims by the Russians is that Hitler started his offensive pect to suffer heavier casualties than the de-tenders.
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