GERMAN THRUSTS
THREATS TO LENINGRAD & MOSCOW FINNS CLAIM ADVANCE IN NORTH. REPORTS OF FEROCIOUS FIGHTING. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, July 15. While indicating that the Russian Army is not only ferociously resisting the German attacks but is vigorously counter-attacking, the Moscow night communique nevertheless discloses that the fierceness of the German onslaught shows no signs of relaxing. It v/ill be noticed that the communique refers to fighting in the northwest which is the Leningrad area but gives no details countering the German claims. Marshal Mannerheim and General von Brauchitsch are opposed in this area by Marshal Voroshilov, the tank expert who mechanised the Red Army. Mannerheim is attacking across the isthmus east of Wiipuri and claims advances of 50 miles. Brauchitsch’s force is pushing northward and was last heard of engaged in large-scale fighting in the Pskov area, though- his advanced units may have pushed on farther towards Leningrad The Swiss Neuezurcher Zeitung’s Berlin correspondent, indeed, says German military circles affirm that Leningrad is now within reach and may be occupied within 24 hours. The communique makes only vague references to the western sector where the Germans are driving against Smolensk. Wiping out 100 tanks in an unnamed locality may be useful, but Berlin’s definite morning claim to have reached Mohilev, 90 miles from Smo-
lensk, is disconcerting, though nothing is available to support lhe claim that the German vanguard is 130 miles from Moscow. The Swiss paper’s Berlin correspondent quoted above, however, describes Moscow as threatened and forecasts German victories before the weekend. German communiques have given no details since midnight on Sunday.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1941, Page 5
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