RED ARMY HITTING BACK
Lightning
Cavalry
Nazis Thrown ANTI-NAZI
Back In The South-East IN ITALY
THE WAR ON THE EASTERN · FRONT IS TO-DAY ENTERING ITS TENTH WEEK WITH- OUT ANY DECISIVE VICTORY TO THE CREDIT OF THE GERMANS.
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MOVEMENT
The Moscow radio says that 140 Italian officers and men were arrested while holding a secret cave in meeting in the Tivoli, but before submit- ting to arrest they offered some resistance.
The battle is raging all along the front, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and every- where the desperate German assaults are matched by the stubborn resistance of the Red troops who appear to be fighting back with even greater zest and effect than at any misation which described itself time since the outbreak of war.
be-
Investigation of the case has been kept secret, but it is stated they belonged to the military or-
as "Badoglio's Volunteers."
Those who met at Tivoli repre.
There is no sign of flag-| Black Sea port, Ochakov,
tween Odessa and the mouth of sented the local branch of th ging, if anything their the Duleper, states the official organisation which has wide rami- morale has been stimulat-German news agency.
ed by the success of their skilful defence methods.
In the north the Germans claim a local success near Lake Ilmen and refer encouragingly to the Finns, although they do not seem to have progressed materially nearer the goal of Leningrad.
Tallinn is apparently prov. ing as tough a nut in the north as in Odessa in the south.
fications throughout Italy, includ- The Nazis report the capture ing the army, and their aim is to of 800 prisoners, 18 aircraft and free Italy from the German yoke 31 guns.
Ochakov was isolated and from Mussolini. Their stogans after Marshal Budenny's retreat resemble those of the Italian across the Dnjeper.
Risorgimento.
The official German news agency last night reported heavy fighting between Lako Peipus, on the Estonian fron- tier, and Lake Ilem, 110 miles south-east of Leningrad.
Bado- The role of Marshal glio in the organisation is not been for known, but he has some time under house arrest, the Moscow radio continues. This means that part of Mar- The view is expressed that shal Voroshilov's army is still knowing his opposition to the battling at least 150 miles from Mussolini regime, and his dis- Leningrad, German troops, said grace, the organisation may have the agency, had "gained fresh used his name without his know- The Rumanians appear to have ground after penetrating a strong-edge--Reuter. been offered a chance to dis-ly fortified position and storming finguish themselves at the latter
concrete pill-boxes and dug- place and are apparently finding outs," that Odessa has sharp teeth.
Sharp Teeth
Elsewhere in the same sector a The report that the Hungarians number of "recently constructed are being pressed to send large military bridges," presumably reinforcements is in keeping with over Plyusa, are stated to have the general picture and shows been captured. that the "new order" is proving
an increasingly heavy yoke on the unfortunate vassals who so tamely opened the Hitler.
door
to
When history comes to be written it will probably be found that in point of suffering and sacrifice there is little to choose between the countries which op- posed the Axis and were overrun and those which abjectly sub-
Nazi mitted to
penetration,
Soviet Hits Back
A SOVIET CAVALRY RECI- MENT HAS THROWN BACK NAZI UNITS OUT OF A TOWN IN THE SOUTH-EASTERN SEC- TOR OF THE FRONT AND CAP- TURED HEADQUARTERS OF A GERMAN DIVISION.
ABOUT 700 GERMAN DEAD WERE LEFT IN THE TOWN.
The Soviet midnight communi- que states, that during August 24 "our troops. fought the
enemy
along the whole front and part- cularly stubbornly in the Kex-
Heavy Rumanian Casualties
A Soviet communique states that the 5th Rumanian Infantry nearly 9,000 men Division lost killed and wounded. The 7th Rumanian Infantry lust over 7,000 killed and wounded.
Major Defeat
Marshal Timoshenko, cummand- ing the Soviet Army of the Cen- tre, has issued a special order of the day congratulating Red Army units on having inflicted a major defeat on the enemy. Presumably. this refers
Koniev's to General successful counter-attack. -- Reu- ter.
GERMANS
holm, Smolensk, Gomel and Dnel- FOOLED IN
prope'rovsk directions.
"During August 22/23, 52 Ger-
mans 'planes were destroyed In HOLLAND
air combats. We lost 39 'planes.
ED
"During the same perlod our northern fleet sank two enemy transports."
·Reds- ́Advance In
Centre
A music-hall compere has made a laughing- stack of Nazis at Gron- ingen, northern Holland.
SOVIET TROOPS COMMAND- He billed himself as “OZO!—a BY GENERAL" KNOIEV popular Dutch term for "Holland CONTINUE TO DEAL HEAVY will be victorious under Orange" BLOWS AT THE ENEMY, AC--and produced
orange ribbons
CORDING TO THE OFFICIAL and other emblems from his hat. SOVIET :NEWS^»AGENCY RE- | Patriolle songs were sung. PORTS FROM THE CENTRAL SECTOR OF THE ERONTAAN
They routed a German infantry civision, captured its artillery, nnd sinashed its headquarters,
When the audlenge roared their approvalían Nuzi Storm Trooper leapt on to the stage and cancelled the performance, Silently, 1,200 people left the
-killing at least 3,000 officers and hall, Outside they encircled the men. Enemy reinforcements, Storm Trooper and his men who, brought up from the rear, have while the police looked on, had to also been routed.
use their fists to break through
Soviet troops destroyed 130 the crowd. tanks, 100 lorries, many guns and large quantities of ammuni- tion, and General Konicv's men continue to advance, liberating Soviet villages from the Invaders und giving the enemy no respite. Ochakov Capture
Claimed
NORWEGIANS FLEE TO ENGLAND Hundreds of Norwegians from the west coast of Norway fled recently to England, according to a Swiss paper yesterday. With
The Berlin radio yesterday them went 70 fishing boats. claimed the capture of another Reuter.
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