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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1941, Page 6

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German Pincers Drive Against Kiev INDICATIONS OF EFFECTIVE RUSSIAN RESISTANCE REPETITION OF FAMILIAR PUBLICITY TACTICS (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, August 5. The new German pincer drive against Kiev appears to have greatly slowed down if it is not fully checked. For the third successive day the Soviet communique has announced fighting in the directions of Korosten and Byelaya-Tserkov. Berlin correspondents of Swedish newspapers suggest that the German High Command is specially emphasising the Ukraine drive in order to give the German public the impression that operations are terminating in the Smolensk area and is making the same claims of successful encirclements in the Kiev region as were made in the early days of the drive against Smolensk. The Germans similarly promise enormous captures of men and material. The Russians, however, persistently refuse to “lie down’’ in the Smolensk sector, where the hostilities are covered in Russian communiques by the familiar phrase of “continued fighting.’’ It is not yet clear whether the switch of German attention from Smolensk to the south—and to a lesser extent to the north—indicates a determination to develop fresh major drives in these areas, or merely constitutes a diversion while the Germans are massing for a greater effort in the centre.