GERMAN UNIT
DESTROYED ON CENTRAL FRONT
POSSIBILITIES IN UKRAINE.
FORECAST OF WINTER PROBLEMS FOR ENEMY.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! LONDON, August 18. It is reported from Moscow that Marshal Timoshenko’s forces have
encircled and destroyed a large German unit during a strong counter-attack on t the central front.
The correspondent of “The Times” on the German frontier says that Marshal Budenny has not succeeded in stemming General Rundstedt’s opening drive, but the Russians’ greater manoeuvrability might still enable them to encircle the advancing Germans if they are able to muster numerically strong enough forces. General Rundstedt commands four separate German armies totalling 40 to 50 infantry divisions plus four to six panzer divisions and 40 to 50 Italian, Hungarian, Rumanian and Slovakian divisions.
The correspondent stresses the ominous nature of the approaching winter for the Germans, and he is of the opinion that the German High Command has realised the impossibility of maintaining simultaneous offensives over the whole front and is faced with the imperative necessity of economising in men and materials. The Finns, after the passage of weeks without any real progress claim to have captured Sortavala, at the north of Lake Ladoga, with practically no damage to the town. It is reported from Stockholm that the Russians are complete masters of Lake Ladoga itself and should be able to effect successful withdrawals from the west side of the lake if necessary. The Berlin radio claimed that the Germans have occupied Nikopol, 130 miles from the mouth of the Dnieper. If true, this represents an important success, bringing the Germans deep into the valuable Dnieper bend. The military spokesman in Berlin declared that mopping up operations at Krivoi-Rog resulted in the taking of 7000 prisoners, and that the Luftwaffe continued the heavy bombing of Russians evacuating Odessa. FIRST SNOW FALLING IN CENTRAL NORWAY. LONDON, August 18. Reuter’s Stockholm correspondent states that bad weather has already begun in Sweden, and the first snow is falling in central Norway.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 5
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