GERMANS NERVOUS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 201, 23 May 1944, Page 5

GERMANS NERVOUS

Sparring On East Front LONDON, May 21. Red Army scouts, thrusting sharply nt widely-separated points on the eastern front, are tying up considerable forces and causing the enemy nervously to describe every minor attack as “an attempted break-through,” whereas the sprtng lull actually continues, says Reuter’s Moscow correspondent. The German news agency’s commentator, Major von Hammer, declared _ that hundreds of planes of the Luftwaffe had been thrown in to check a Russian onslaught against the German bridgehead above Grigoriopol. “Our positions are stretched like a bowstring in front of the Dniester bend.’ he said. “German Grenadiers met the Russian attack. The Russians at firs', penetrated our lines and on the third day of the attack they threatened to engulf the whole of our positions, but finally they were repulsed.” Berlin radio stated that the Russians wore repeatedly attempting to cut the Jassy-Kishinev railway line. The latest Russian communique reports no change on the front today’. A supplementary communique issued yesterday again mentioned unsuccessful German attacks north-west of Tiraspol and south-east of Stanislavov. The Germans south-west of Citebsk vainly attempted to recapture a height which was lost after two days’ fighting. The Russian air aim attacked shipping in the Gulf of Finland, sank two patrol vessels, two landing barges, and a launch, and shot, down 15 German, planes in aerial combat