NO MARKED ADVANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1941, Page 5

NO MARKED ADVANCE

MADE BY GERMANS ANYWHERE ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES IN LONDON. THE SWITCH IN PROPAGANDA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, July 29. According to information reaching military circles in London, there has been no marked advance by the Germans on any sector of the Eastern Front. There appears to have been some advance in the Jitomir direction (in the Ukraine) where it is possible the Russians are straightening their line in order to prevent an outflanking l movement from the north. To date, the Germans have achieved none of the aims they set themselves and which in five weeks of fighting they have constantly assured their people were on the verge of attainment. They have not yet taken Moscow, Leningrad or Kiev, which are the goals of their main drives. As a result of .stubborn and unabated Russian resistance, German propaganda has recently switched over to the claim that territorial gain is not, and has not, been the aim of German strategy, which is to destroy the Russian armies in the field. In this they have been no more successful than in

the capture of the three cities. A factor which may prove to be of the greatest importance ill deciding the result of the war is the possibility or otherwise of Russia being able properly to equip her vast reserves from Central Russia, far behind the present front, which must by now be nearly fully mobilised, but which have not yet participated in the fighting.

EFFECTIVE BLOWS

STRUCK BY RUSSIAN AIR FORCE.

(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, July 29.

An afternoon Russian communique states: “Our Air Force, in co-opera-tion with land troops, inflicted blows on large groupings of the enemy and on his Air Force and aerodromes.”