BATTLES CONTINUE
ON MANY PARTS OF FRONT RUSSIAN AIR FORCE ACTIVE. AGAINST ENEMY MECHANISED FORCES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, July 18. A Moscow communique states: “Fighting continued yesterday in the Pskov, Porkhov, Polotsk, Smolensk and Novograd-Volynsk sectors and also on the Bessarabian front, with no important change in the disposition of our troops. “Our air force operated against enemy motorised and mechanised troops and also destroyed enemy planes on aerodromes. A German submarine was sunk by a mine in Varanger Fiord, northern Norway.” The German news agency admits that the Soviet launched strong coun-ter-attacks against German infantry which were trying to link up with the advanced motorised columns in the Kiev area. It is claimed that German artillery have broken up the counterattacks. It states that the Germans have also advanced toward Orsha, 60 miles west of Smolensk. Yesterday the news agency claimed the fall of Polotsk, which is 140 miles west-north-west of Smolensk. Today it modifies the previous statements, denied by Moscow, that Smolensk itself was captured and now says there is fighting in the town.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1941, Page 5
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