SOVIET REPORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 5

SOVIET REPORTS

LINES NOT BROKEN THROUGH BV NAZIS ENEMY ATTEMPTS FAIL. TRANSPORT & OTHER VESSELS SUNK. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, July 13. The “considerable advances” claimed by the German High Command today are discounted by the latest communique issued, according to the Moscow radio, by the Soviet Information Bureau. The communique states: “There is no important change to report from ■ the battlefronts. All the enemy attempts to effect a break through the Soviet lines and enter Soviet territory have failed. “In the south-western sector the Soviet Air Force and the Red Army annihilated an enemy motorised division. “Coastal batteries succeeded in sinking a Finnish torpedo boat and the same battery sank a German transport steamer which attempted to land a considerable enemy shock unit on Soviet territory. A German steamer blew up and sank off Memel. It is presumed that the ship ran. into a minefield. “Germans of the Volga Soviet Republic are volunteering in masses for the Red Army, in order to participate in the fight for freedom and humanity, with weapons in their hands.” The Moscow wireless announcer said that when German infantry units were attacked by Soviet guerilla forces on a pontoon bridge, a German detachment was wiped out and the guerilla forces took a considerable quantity of arms and ammunition. In stubborn fighting on the south-western front, many German officers and men were killed and a great number of Hungarian prisoners were taken*by the Red Army.