SOVIET REPORT
NO ESSENTIAL CHANGE.
IN TROOP DISPOSITIONS.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) RUGBY, August 3
A Soviet communique issued early on Monday states: “In the course of August 3, our troops engaged the enemy in the directions of Smolensk, Kerpston Byelaya-Tserkov and in other sectors of the front. No essential changes have taken place in the disposition of our troops. Our Air Force, in cooperation with our land forces, attacked enemy mechanised and motorised units, infantry and artillery. In aerial combat with the enemy Air Force 31 German planes were shot down, with a loss of nineteen Soviet planes. “In the course of an attack on Moscow carried out by German planes during the night of August 2, two German planes were brought down without loss.
“An enemy submarine was sunk in the Baltic Sea.
“It is now ascertained that during a raid on Constanta carried out by Soviet planes on August 2, bombs hit a floating dock, ah enemy destroyer and enemy shipping in the harbour.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1941, Page 6
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