NAZI FAILURE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1941, Page 6

NAZI FAILURE

TO REACH OBJECTIVES IN RUSSIA As Struggle Enters Fifth Week POWERFUL EFFORT BEING MADE ON CENTRAL FRONT MASSES TRYING TO BLAST WAY TO MOSCOW (By Telegraph—Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 20. The Russian-German war has entered its fifth week with the three prizes for which the blitzkreig was launched-—Lenin-grad, Moscow, and the Ukraine—still m Russian hands. Inc Germans have, however, achieved considerable gams, but mos realistic observers, reviewing the course of the war, that the Germans have failed to achieve their land objective fo the first time during the present European war. As Hitler has failed after four weeks to gam any of his three objectives, it is considered in London that there are reasonable grounds tor optimism regarding the outcome of the struggle. The latest communiques show that the Germans, filing o achieve an easy break through to Leningrad and the Ukraine, have reverted on the central front to the policy of throwing in masses of troops, tanks and planes to blast a path to Moscow. The immediate battleground is a vast triangle, with the 2UUmile line between Polotsk and Bobruisk as its base and the apex east of Smolensk. . This afternoon’s German communique states that operations in the Smolensk region are progressing according to plan. Further successes have been scored on the Finnish front. German and Rumanian forces from Bessarabia have continued their pursuit of the enemy on the east bank of the Dniester, after breaking resistance. Desperate attempts by encircled Russian troops to break through at a number of points on the East front have been frustrated and the enemy has suffered heavy losses.