FICTION & FACT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1941, Page 5

FICTION & FACT

NAZI CLAIMS & REALITIES OF WAR NO BREACH IN RUSSIAN ARMIES. INVADERS STILL 128 MILES FROM KIEV. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, July 21. Today’s communique from Berlin says that in the southern sector of the Russian front German, Rumanian and Hungarian troops are pursuing beaten Russian troops. On '’all other fronts, it adds, operations are making successful progress. A number of encircled enemy troops were destroyed. In spite of this claim for the southern sector it is evident that Kiev, the fall of which the Germans claimed was imminent nine days ago, is not endangered. The midday Soviet communique, referring to the southern sector, mentions stubborn fighting in the Novograd-Volynsk sector. It . also claims that 31 German planes were destroyed yesterday and that Russian losses were six. The Germans after the month’s fighting are at present about 100 miles from Leningrad, 200 miles from Moscow and 128 miles from Kiev in their main thrusts, and, so far as is known, at no point have they made a breach in the Russian armies on a great scale since the battle of Bialystok, which opened up the way to Smolensk. Moscow had its sixth alert of the war today but no bombs were dropped.