NEXT NAZI EFFORT ON EASTERN FRONT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1941, Page 5

NEXT NAZI EFFORT ON EASTERN FRONT

Moscow Reports Fighting in Many Areas

TRIBUTES TO RUSSIAN ARMY AND PEOPLE PAID BY BRITISH LORD PRIVY SEAL LONDON. August 6. Further signs are reported of a third German offensive developing on the Eastern Front. Military circles in Moscow await it with confidence. A Moscow communique reports that fighting continues in Estonia, also at a point half-way between Leningrad and Smolensk, at Smolensk itself and in the Ukraine. The Russians claim to have sunk two German transports. The Germans lost five aircraft in a raid on Moscow last night. In a review of the war from the German angle, given from Hitler’s headquarters, the Nazis do not claim possession of any of the towns the capture of which they alleged three weeks ago. They claim to have inflicted great losses on the Russian forces, but do not give their own figures. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr C. R. Attlee, Lord Privy Seal, spoke of the magnificent fight which the Russian army and people were putting up. It was abundantly clear, he said, that the plans of the German High Command for a rapid victory had not succeeded. From Murmansk to Kiev, all the German objectives were still in Russian hands. The Germans had suffered heavy losses in men and material.