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RUSSIAN ARMY
LEADER DIES
MOSCOW, May 29 (A.A.P.).
Lieut.-General Matvei Mak-
simov, Russia's leading com
mander of railway troops, has
died. -
This is reported by the Soviet
army newspaper "Red Star."
uenerai lviaKsimov naa
charge of the reconstruction
of railways leading to the Rus
sian battle lines during the
Stalingrad battle. He also
organised the crossing of the
Volga. .
He had been in the Red
Army 30 years.
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