Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1941 — Page 14

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ZERO WEATHER |

HELPING REDS

Russian Rejoice Because |

Cold Hampers Nazis: Train Ski Troops.

a By A. T. STEELE Pere GRD Te + KUIBYSHEV, Dec. 12 —Heaven help the poor soldier who is ered to go over the top in weathr like this, The thermometer outfide the entrance to my hafel read 2 below zero, Fahrenheit, When I a ventured t his morning. Simply looking at the falling mer- | cury almos t| scared me back indoors for another layer of underwear. A look at the passing Russians whose eyelids and whiskers were

: didn’t quiet my » A. T. Steele 1 ethensions. 3 Screwing up courage from the eomforting observation by my RusSian friends that “real winter hasn't get in yet” and with thoughts of tropic Singapore, which tf left only a few months ago, I accomplished shiveringly the little] task I had marked out for myself} «crossing the Volga on foot. . The Volga is now a mile-wide ribbon of white and it is no feat to walk across it. The Volga boatthan has gone into hibernation.

Skiing Is I'mportant « This cold weather doesn’t seem to make much difference to the life of the Russians. To be sure they stick more closely to their thickwalled, double-windowed houses but there are plenty of them ‘in the Streets. . Scores of youngsters are skiing,

skating and sledding. Carts have) ¥

given way to sleds hauled by steaming, crystalline horses and, oceasionally, you see a dromedary plodding majestically in an aura of vapor over the snowpacked roads. » Many hundreds of Kuibyshev’s pulation went to the city’s “locohotive Stadium” on Sunday to eer the physical culture classes, fing experts, and hockey teams, dt the opening of the winter sports Season. The event has special significance is year for skiing is now a heavily emphasized feature of the training pf vast reserve armies in process of formation in this country. Everywhere throughout the country, sports organizations have been enlisted to train instructors in skiing. These men, in turn, are| dispatched to military centers to instruct soldiers and potential soldiers. Russia learned the value of skiborne troops in the Finnish war and only last week was given another demonstration of their effectiveness in the fighting outside Moscow. A detachment of troops mounted On skis and carrying automatic tifles was involved in a furious suecessful counter-attack against a six-

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Cold Helps Defense

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