ON RUSSIAN FRONT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1942, Page 5

ON RUSSIAN FRONT

All German Generals Called To Attend Urgent Conference

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Hitler has left Berlin 1 r LOND °N, May 24. according to Stockholm reports" *****? front - wherethe operations against Russia have h-J*™hj con »nanding conference to revise the German r>l a „ ft 0 * t0 a s P e c»al is the surest indication that Mar*hal T' This move ,ive ha. completely s su n>rise oftentions, at least on the souther n e fron r f m r^ Pla rif f ° r BUmm « operaof equipment and Munitions which h U thr L at f n,n S vast stores tion for the German attack Wh,cHhaVe been up in preparaThe Russians on some sectors of th*. k"k i r to prrss back the Germans but «« »k Kharkov front continue ncccssary for consolidation is eointr sectors only fighting the Isyum-Barvenkova region , re P orts from that the Germans are held desr>ite h* l • Markov, indicate that the .»«»„ there continue, to b7favoura a"!,"" back ,o°the a D„'„ a et noXet' JftcE*"" !?"" J?" b — gigantic battle around Kharkov itself . 3 • ° ', hat lhe tanks and also plane, and a, l^toOO.O^ Fierce local actions continue in I >1, 11 Tht ment ß o'f d Ke',ch """J" * b »d<>"hundred, of plana. fZ the! Z 11"'" iT" * concentrating terrific hammer blows from the air The R °. nt ' o .'" 0 b,ck fifty?' 8 * P^Vere d t*d G rd"b-^TS. 0 m c.r m ln'd,v p ;r om t"rr„dLh t :rV o fr i s aI i cot '" po " d^ t -»» Kerch offensive. Pre.umablv thev tTI S P »" lc 'P» ted '•>« Ke.,elring had previ„„.ly flun'g mX h e »Sd. """ ,dro ~ that ™rch B 'one oPtt „H« cXTTrJ"■ m M °"° W . '«"»"■ hJve b"e"e U n ltie " h ' h * on ,he Peni"ula are "uiiTve'd'"* saving bulk o'fXT b °' h "" Ru » i! ™ -"ceded saving tne bulk of their men and equipment, which, after retr M * ing under a three-day rearguard action, have now been diverted to reinforce the Taman Peninsula. diverted