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FIERCE BATTLE STILL RAGING Reassuring Moscow Communique
AXIS CHANGE
OF PLAN
An appeal to Australian communists and left-wing supporters to give their wholehearted support to the Federal Government
Soviet as
workers
theirs, was
supporting
are
Successes In AIRMEN
North And North And South: BLOT THE Panzers Cut Off BLITZ
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The Russian air force, FOURTH DAY OF THE TREMENDOUS BATTLE RAGING ON according to a Moscow THREE SECTORS OF THE RUSSO-GERMAN FRONT BRINGS A report, has REASSURING MOSCOW HIGH COMMAND COMMUNIQUE, | “blitz" WHICH GIVES A CLEARER PICTURE OF THE MILITARY |"blitzkrieg.” SITUATION.
out
taken the
of
the
IT HAS FORCED A NEW
made by Mr. Hughes, the Navy Minister in a Syd- ney broadcast last night.
The Empire, he said, was taking According to this communique, the German thrust towards "GO SLOW" POLICY ON THE
Ger-Leningrad in the Psko, sector has not merely been brought to a A month ago, the mighty Nazi halt, but the main ene ny forces are being hurled back.
full advantage of the sent opportunity to smite
many.
Heaven-
war machine was poised to at- tack Suez and the Axis partner
In the Vitebsk region, the issue still hangs
might simultaneously at-in the balance with both sides throwing in all
tacked Singapore.
All had
been
have
he available arranged,
declared, adding that the
had now changed.
scene losses.
that
Mr. Hughes castigated
section small
of "the very
and distrusted the British-
resources and suffering severe
SOVIET
Trend of the operations is indicated in the PARACHUTE
nicest people" who auspected reference to fighting in the Novograd-Volinsk
The Russian High Command says OPERATIONS ·
Soviet Pact.
sector.
They would rather Nazism won that the Red Army is checking the ene. y's
than that the Soviet should help
to save us from Nazi domination, attempts to penetrate eastward and join his
God save us from such narrow-
minded and treacherous counsels. tanks which are in a difficult situation.
I welcome the alliance with this great Power with unbounded satisfaction."--Reuter.
TOBRUK
the progress
up
Italian news
NAZI PANZER DIVISIONS WHICH, INSTEAD OF CRASH- ING ON FAR AHEAD AND ALONE REGARDLESS OF WHAT OPPOSITION THEY BEHIND, ARE NOW. BEING PROTECTED AGAINST THE HEAVY CASUALTIES CAUSED BY THE RUSSIAN AIR ATTACKS.
LEAVE
They are slow anti-aircraft reduce their pace by more than half, and complicate transport and supply, and they
also constantly protected by swarms of Messerschmitt fighters. Reuter.
eing escorted by units which
are
to destroy a Hungarian- a troops
railway line was frustrated by the "vigilance and energetic action of Hungarian troops.”
Soviet parachute troops have been dropped in Hungary in order to des- The inference which may fairly through at several points on the be drawn is that the grandiose long front, but which have not troy railways, states German claims to sensational been able to obtain the substan- advances have been based upon tial backing of the motorised Budapest despatch to the
of panzer units infantry, following
closely official which probably have broken behind, which is the technique of
the blitz.
On the northern front, for in- stance, the Soviet High Com-
The despatch claimed that an mand claims complete victory attempt by
Soviet parachute over the German infantry divi- sions, and that behind its own! lines, German panzer units are being systematically destroved.
Mogilev Claim
SORTIES NAZI
A communique issued by G.H.Q. in the Middle East yesterday stated. that offensive patrols from the British forces on Tobruk have been active.
In a recent hand-to-hand en-
Counter the British captured
COMMENT
ON SYRIA
The Germans, meanwhile, claim a further success on the central sector, announcing the -capture of the "key"- Russian ftress city of Mogilev, south-
"With the reaching of st of Smolensk. It is claimed
prisoners and many casualties the armistice agreement
So successful was, one
of
that Mogilev is deep inside the
Stalin Line and it is asserted that
Moscow."
were inflicted on the enemy, who in Syria a campaign of the success will pave the way were surprised in their positions, the British Army comes for opening a wide corridor to these raids that it was into а conclusion with Smolensk elf, says Berlin, correctly-described in an enemy communique as a derlouset which not Berlin but is under constant air raid and artillery bombardment. In a tempt to break out of. Tobruk. Vichy will have to deal radio broadcast, last night, Berlin Abyssiniano change. Syria action is now in pro- more closely," a Wilhelm- declared that "the dissolution of some Russian divisions seems gress to give effect to the terms strasse statement said complete. A fort in the Opotchia of the convention signed on Mon-
sector" (east of Ostrav)- has been blown up. International News Service.
Reuter.
SOVIET RAID ON
last night.
The statement adds: "The end of the battle for Syria does not
prove that France is not in a posi- tion to defend her colonies.”
Soviet Communique_» Berlin political circles, adds the Soviet communique says German news agency, said it was fighting continued in the Vitebsk. matter of course that certain and Novograd-Volinske directions, NETSİZİ HARİKA the case of Syria. Whether by ed enemy motorised troops, des- TANE AIR RAID ON Germany or by both is a matter froying them section by section.
THE MAIN ENEMY FORCES BUCHAREST ON MONDAY WAS that is left open."Reuter
ARE BEING HURLED BACK TO ANNOUNCED IN AN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE ISSUED IN number of incendiary bombs on THE WESTAGRA
fierce THE RUMANIAN - CAPITAL Bucharest on Monday night" but "In Vitebak there was
ATES A DESPATCH TO THE Boys that fires started were ex-fighting all day against mechanis- OFFICIAL ITALIAN NEWS tinguished.
ed units trying to penetrate, to. AGENCY.
One was killed and one in the cast, Fighting continues with reads: jured, concludes the communique, heavy losses on both sides. Järge --Reuter,
(Continged on Pago, 10)
BUCHAREST lessons have been learned from In Pskov, our troops, surround-
'communique
agency.
Hungarian forces on the Soviet front were stated to be advancing into Podolia, in western Ukraine, despite the lack of roads and the difficulties of the terrain-Reuter,
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