Bitterest Fighting Of Russian War

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 123, 27 May 1942, Page 7

Bitterest Fighting Of Russian War

CONFUSED POSITION

German Attempts To Entrap Large Soviet Forces

(United Press Assoei a ,i„„._/.- 0 p yr , ght _ Rcc , The bitterness and intensity of lhe L ° N °° N - 26. I,on, surpasses any previous h «tl°. „„ ° n ! he Kharkov Moscow dispatch. The 1 eastern front, says a I unoshenko's attack as a ° escribed Marshal in the Crimea have now no dpi againßt German onslaught st battles „f the war. but T"' ' " " ° n ° ° f * he seven days, suggesting of ™ i_ ey S3y ,l ma y be over in to them. Bgesttng, of course, that it will result f avolm>b £ any l vc l !y S v!!^ u ,.l"' f " r n na u elr ', S '' ll do not „n the Kharkov front ,cL , '"4 «"« [sjum-Barvenkova sector south e** C \ i fighting in the also refer to fightingTo uthwald'.TkK.A *" h * id " tlie Russians admit is in the Isvum rif.rv L° V a river w hich the Germans specifically „,mTaT'the SeC ""' were "»< ">'« Soviet armies the pressure exerted by these herder! ° V 3 Sector * but admitted that and the Sov.et resistance o'SnIUT UM ' ans Deny Encirclement Ereatesf 0 encirclements wt^a^"' forces which surrounded the Russian left wint 1 Gern }an hark westward around the trannerl • Ji° W BWee P in ß Command report broadcast from Berfe'd'e'eribed ho™?he tLrt^ a «t':Vpled C RU ' S ' anS a "™P'ed e to P bre e ak, brn furthered' UkT' |?T™" 47 freed from the Russians in two days. This indicates'that opera,,on, extend over a wider area than was bith.S supposed' but strenuo'usly denied * BcarceT *. German. and 2S£L SfS ~ M bearing a greater o " d ,T T "*"? Sre f :Tur!n h g ~