ANOTHER TOBRUK?

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 5

ANOTHER TOBRUK?

RUSSIANS STILL HOLDING ODESSA

WITHDRAWAL ELSEWHERE , IN UKRAINE. STRONG DEFENSIVE WORKS PREPARED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) RUGBY, August 18. There are indications that the Germans have resumed their thrust towards Leningrad, in the Estonian sector, on the axis of the Tallinn-Lenin-grad railway, north of Lake Peipus.

The withdrawal of the Russians is continuing in the Ukraine, west of the Dnieper River, and experts in London await news as to whether Marshal Budenny has been able to withdraw his forces across the Dnieper, where a great deal of defensive work has been carried out and where it should be possible to make a stand on a very strong line behind a half-mile-wide river. Odessa is still in Russian hands and there is still no indication whe-' ther they intend to use it, as suggested in some quarters, as another Tobruk. No change is reported in other sectors and a Russian midday communique states: ‘’During the night of August 17 our troops continuedtto wage battles along the whole front.”