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SOVIET WAR PLAN

BAS 777 ; OK RED ARMY INTACT Readiness to Yield Territory if Necessary LOOKING TO DECISIVE BATTLE IN INTERIOR OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA EFFORTS TO SAFEGUARD UKRAINE (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, July 2. “If the German offensive threatens to split the Red Army, Stalin is prepared to give up Leningrad, Minsk and Kiev and even Moscow,” says the “New York Times” Ankara correspondent, who quotes a high diplomatic official in close contact with the Soviet leaders as the source of his information. The Soviet war plan, he says, is based on the idea of keeping the Red Army intact and extending the war into the wintei. By then the Soviet Air Force will have been strengthened for an attack on Germany in the spring. Stalin and his staff have deployed the Red Army so that it can fight a rearguard action to beyond the Urals if necessary. Some observers believe that the Russians will not engage in decisive battle before the Gelmans reach the interior of European Russia. Battles can be fought there with great handicaps to the attacking forces. The “Daily Express” Stockholm correspondent says Stalin is organising a great new line to guard the Ukrainian and Caucasian oilfields. The main objective of the Russians in the south is to hinder a German advance towards the Ukraine. The harvest will be ripe in a fortnight.

NEW STRATEGY ADOPTED BY RUSSIANS ATTEMPT TO CUT OFF TANK UNITS AND IMMOBILISE INFANTRY. SOVIET & NAZI REPORTS. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 2. With the conflict between Germany and Russia now at a critical stage, the fighting of the next few days probably will determine the outcome. It is possible that the advances claimed by Germany and admitted by Russia are the result of Russian strategy, which even German commentators admit is different from anything previously encountered. This strategy, according to experts, is designed to cut off mechanised columns from the main body, and thus immobilise the foot army while the mechanised forces are disposed of.

The situation is still confused. The German occupation of Minsk and Riga is officially denied in Moscow, but the Finnish radio stated that German troops have passed Smolensk and are continuing a lightning advance: towards Moscow.

A Russian communique states: — “Fighting continued during last night in the direction of Murmansk, Dvinsk, Minsk and Luck. The enemy carried out an offensive towards the Srednu Peninsula, in the direction of Murmansk. Our troops stubbornly resisted, inflecting heavy losses on the enemy. The Red Army last night,

after destroying advanced enemy tank units, is now developing a battle in the direction of Dvinsk and Minsk. Our troops are engaged in the direction of Luck, dealing heavy blows against enemy motorised and mechanised units. There is intense patrol activity and machine-gun and artillery fire in other sectors. "Despite bad weather, whit.i i.as often made flying impossible, our Air Force was successfully active on July 1 against enemy tank forces in the Dvinsk and Minsk sectors. It destroyed motorised units and planes, both in the air and on the ground, bombed fuel transports and supply columns and hindered the progress of masses of enemy infantry. It has been definitely ascertained that we shot down 102 planes on June 30 and also 54 on July 1. Twenty-two of our planes were lost. “Our troops annihilated a group of enemy diversionists wearing Red Army uniforms and attempting to occupy one of our military objectives in the Hanko sector.

“A Russian naval squadron is imported to have shelled and destroyed the German naval base at Constanta. While returning home the squadron sank an enemy submarine.” A German communique says: “Operations against the Soviet Army in the east are continuing progressively. We occupied Ventspils on July 1. Our forces, in conjunction with our Finnish allies in Central and Northern Finland, crossed the Soviet frontier on July 1 to attack. Enemy troops retreating into Estonia and from eastwards of Lwow and near Minsk suffered heavy losses from air attacks. We finally destroyed a large part of the Soviet army surrounded east of Bialystok and captured immense booty, of which thus far we have counted 100,000 prisoners, 400 tanks and 300 guns. During a tank battle in Galicia, which concluded on July 1, we destroyed or captured a further 220 tanks.”

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1941, Page 6

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Tapeke kupu
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SOVIET WAR PLAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1941, Page 6

SOVIET WAR PLAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1941, Page 6

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