CITY RETAKEN
SUCCESSFUL RUSSIAN COUNTEROFFENSIVE I BMVW. GERMANS DECIMATED & PURSUED. TANKS & OTHER MATERIAL ABANDONED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON. July 20. According to the Moscow “Red Staiy Russian troops, in a counteroffensive recaptured a city. The city is not named, but is described as “S”). The newspaper adds that superior German forces fled in disorder before attacks frontal and on both flanks. The Russians pursued and decimated the Germans, with artillery fire and bayonet charges. The Germans abandoned 2 considerable quantity of cannon, tanks and armoured cars. Although the Berlin propaganda machine is churning, out a stream of extravagant claims and promises, Axis diplomats in Istanbul are more cautious. They estimate that at least four million of the bestequipped and mechanised Russian troops have not yet been engaged and are being held strategically behind the lines, in pi-eparation for counter-offensives. The diplomats also admit that the Russian Air Force is fighting hard.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1941, Page 5
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156CITY RETAKEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1941, Page 5
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