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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1941, Page 6

the Next Few Days USSIAN LEADERS SUPREMELY CONFIDENT MARSHAL BUDENNY'S DECLARATION IN UKRAINE

(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 1. Military authorities are unanimous that a crucial test in the Russian-German conflict will come in the next rew ajA>. The British United Press Berlin correspondent repor.s .hav German officials admit- that the Russians are counter-attacking heavily on ail fronts, from. Lake Ladoga to the Black cea. The Berlin Radio has admitted that the Finns are meeting strong Russian counter-attacks on the Karelian from. While there is mounting gloom among the brerman populace, Russian leaders are supremely confident. _ Marshal Budenny the Soviet commander in the Ukraine, in appealing f intensified guerilla warfare, declared that the hour of victory German communique states that fighting’ on the Eastern front is progressing favourably. . . , An Istanbul message says General Liszt is believed to hav been withdrawn from the Russian front. He was seen m Athens ATlfi Sofl£L VZCCICf jji—TA'.id l wbitt