Germans Thrust Upon The Defensive In Crucial Areas
Threat To Rear Round Leningrad
CHECKED IN THE THRUST TOWARDS LENINGRAD AND ON THE LOWER DNIEPER, THE GERMANS HAVE BEEN THROWN ON THE DEFENSIVE AT ALL OTHER IMPORT- ANT POINTS ALONG THE 1,800 MILE RUS- SIAN FRONT.
This much is clear from the last reports from the front, though a great deal more re- mains to be told and though it is impossible to foresee the next development.
The Red Army's heaviest This attack was frustrated with counter-assault is south of Lake heavy losses to the Russiants, Ihnen, threatening the flanks and rear of the German troops far ther north, in the Leningrud acack, while Generul Koniev is hammering at the Gomel position.
German reports mention fighting near Bobruisk, south- west of Smolensk, indicating a withdrawal for some distance In this sector.
Heavy Counter-
Attacks
a
Strong Russian forces attack- ed the German positions on the lower course of the Dnie. per. These attacks--says the German agency-were also re- pulsed with heavy losses, In this defensive battle, thousand prisoners were taken.
The agency also states that violent Agpling took place yester- day in the centre of the front and claims that 25 Soviet tanks, including eight of the 52-ton type. were destroyed in this section. It does not repeat "Annalist," in a commentary on assertion that the attacks the position, points out that while) the Soviet High Command, which
repulsed. tentions that fighting continues unabated along the entire front. is, further than this, singularly) uncommunicative for the moment, the Germans reler to the numer- OLIS and widespread counter- attacks by the Russians, not only in the central sector (Gomel and Bobruisk) but also now on the! lower course of the Dnieper in the south and in the north below) Lake ImeN.
The Soviet forces are reported to be bringing up heavy tanks of over fifty tons in the land bat-1 tles and are evidently using
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SOVIET VERSION OF FINNISH FRONT BATTLE
A STORM TROOPER division and one Finnish brigade were thrown against one So- viet regiment in the “N” sector of the Eastern Front, says Moscow's supplementary com-
IN MIDDLE unique issued yesterday.
EAST
"Our Red Army defended themselves courageously, attacking the enemy on all sides. Soon another unit joined our regi- Soviet troops. ment, strengthening the resistance of the
The steadily growing gunboats to advantage along the strength of the R.A.F. in Dnieper harassing the Germans, the Middle East, now fur- attempting to establish bridge- ther augmented by the arrival in the Western Healthy Sign
Desert theatre of war of further the South African Air properly appraised, but its Force, was brought forci- Timoshenko bly home to the enemy repeated during August when some
anti the find weak of the heaviest bombing
The situation needs clarification before it
can be
clear that Marshals and Budenny are exerting healthy! counter-action to the German attempts to spots in the central section and where the Dnieper Germans easy access to the east towards the Don and the Donetz made.
Basin,
narrowing of the raids yet carried out in near Kiev affords the the Middle East were
penetrating to our rear where it
A recent order of the German
Despairing of breaking ou de pitals in Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp fence by counter-attacks, the Ger- and other towns. mans decided to try to encircle our unit. Through forests and marshes! the Finnish regiment succeeded in High Command is that all Bel- counted upon creating a panic in gian hospitals be placed at our ranks, but the Finns made a authorities for housing German mistake, "the communique says.
"The Red Army repulsed all attacks and more Sovjet rein- forcements arrived
Finns found themselves encir.
cled by our troops.
"The Finn regiment was routed, and out of 2,000 Finns who pene- trated to our rear," the communi- que says, "not more Principal targets were Tripoli, 600 men managed
than There is no official confirma Benghazi, Derna, Bardia, as well
to escape tion that
from the Russians
the encirclement. have as many landing grounds
Forty and evacuated Viborg.in Finland. military objectives in enemy ter-machine-guns, many trench mor There would be good military ritory,
tars, and rifles and other military reasons for them dolig.Go, for Our aircraft also ranged fur- equipment were captured or des It would make it easier
troyed." for ther afield and concentrated at- them to defend Leningrad by tacks were delivered against the shortening their line of com- Corinth Canal and aerbdromes in
Crete and in Greece itself.
munications,
Guerilla Activity
12:
A Russian report says that ac- Reports that the withdrawal} Tripoli and Benghazi had severe cording to a statement of prison- has been: ordered for political hammerings nearly every night, ers nearly all the company. comTM Tather than military reasons Bardia and Derna had their usual manders and eight or nine men should be treated with reserve quota, while other objectives at cut of every were killed. because of their conflicting nae Misurata, Gambut, Gázala, Mar- Guerilla detachments.continue to ture.
tuba, Imimi, Capuzzo, Binina and harruss German and Finnish Rain
Berca were also raided.
troops," who have seized. certain These widespread operations in parts of the Karelian Finnish Re The Germans are now admit the Western Desert have not public, according to a Soviet com- ting that 'censeless rains are been confined to the night-time, munique, locating the enemy's hampering operations in the main]. Daylight sweeps by Blenheims weak spots and inflicting severe -Leningrad battlezone south-of, and Marylands are becoming more losses-upon-him-by-destroying Lake Ilmen, and It seems evident and more frequent : while Hur-bridges and stores, and making that the weather is becoming an ricanes - and Tomahawks have night attacks upon small enemy increasingly important defen- taken heavy toll of enemy, motor detachments... sive factor.
transport personnel and Tand Enemy lines of communications, convoys in ground strafing at in many casco, have been destroy- tacks.
ed and the roads mined, saya So- Two of the outstanding.bomb-viet. reports. In one case the for- Fresh counter-attacks by Mar- ing raids of the month were est through which the enemy was shal Budenny's forees south of made against the Corinth Canal moving was set afire on all sides Klev and on the lower course of with a view to preventing the cousing great losses amongst the the Dnieper are reported by, the use by shipping of this import-Finns and Germans. official German news agency. ant waterway, Considerable
Fresh Onslaughts
The Soviet forces, says the landslides were caused on tha agency, supported by artillery and banks of the canal sufficient to gunboats, yesterday repeated the prevent the passaga. ofčnemy
Belgian Hospitals
According to another Sovint re-
tients have been moved from hos-"
attempt to gain the western bank ships for the long period."-Bri-port; thousands of Belgian-na- of the Dnloper south of Kiev,itish Wircleus..
the
disposal of the Germán military
wounded. About 40,000 Germán wounded are expected to arrive any day in Belgium.-Reuter.
a high-speed heavily armed Some of these aircraft are fit-
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BOTH JUST AND NECESSARY
Cardinal Hinsley, Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, in London yesterday ad- dressed Catholic memo bers of the forces serv- ing in the war.
His Eminence said that there existed to- who day a tyrant made a God out of war and who had no
scruples in dealing with mankind.
"War
Var against such a man is Both just and
necessary."Reuter.
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