(TARY sources today London, Oct. 14. id that they: believed that the Battle for Moscow might be developing into a "battle of reinforcement" in which the Ger: man and Russian High Commands were rushing fresh troops to replace fatigued units which for the past 13 days had been fig! sliting one of the most ferocious series of engagements in the history of warfare.
It was agreed that for once the Russians seemed to have the advantage in this race to throw fresh units into the fight, although the Nazi generals succeeded in advancing considerable numbers of Hungarians, Rumanians and Italians to the front in an effort to keep the momentum of the Panzer steam-roller at a peak.
Experts, however, said there were obvious signs that the German attack was slowing. down, due to. the fact the. Russian' lines of communications had been shortened, enabling Marshal Hmoshenko to achieve parity in men and machines for his defensive Aghting, "At the same time, it was pointed out that the. Germans undoubtedly had, to repair and regroup their mechanized units since Wear and tear from the advance was due to show on tanks and armoured cars.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.