TANK BATTLE
RUSSIANS REPORT SIGNAL SUCCESS HUNDRED ENEMY VEHICLES DESTROYED. AT LEAST 1,000 GERMANS KILLED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, August 4. . In addition to details of the general position of the fighting with the Germans, the latest Russian communique states: “A large enemy tank formation attempted five times to attack our fortifications in the south-west sector. After the enemy had run short of fuel and several tanks had been destroyed, our forces went into counter-attacks and a fierce battle ensued, in which 300 tanks and armoured cars took part, on both sides. “After one of the tank units had been put out of action, our tank formations penetrated J into the enemy lines. In all the enemy lost 100 tanks and armoured cars, 45 guns and 30 motorised vehicles, and at least 1,000 Fascist soldiers and officers were killed.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1941, Page 5
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