ADMITTED BY OFFICIALS IN BERLIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1941, Page 6

ADMITTED BY OFFICIALS IN BERLIN

Intense Straggle on Central Front RUSSIAN ARMY HACKS WAY THROUGH GERMANS •AFTER BEING SURROUNDED FOR 45 DAYS (By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 11.10 a.in.) LONDON, August 20. While a German communique says attacks have been successfully continued against the few bridgeheads on the Dnieper still in Russian' hands, Berlin officials this evening admitted that the left of the army in the Ukraine was still baulked oy the Russians. Heavy fighting is proceeding in the Kiev-Koro-sten area. , The Associated Press of Great Britain’s Moscow correspondent reports that Marshal Budenny counter-attacked and recaptured "a town in the Ukraine and destroyed two German battalions. . According to despatches to Moscow from the front, the Germans’ drive from the south against Lenihgrad is not progressing. The Red Army is stubbornly resisting beyond Kingisepp. However the German thrust in the direction of Novgorod has brought the fighting within forty miles of the LeningradMoscow Railway. Marshal Timoshenko is resisting the thrust towards Gomel, endeavouring to foil an apparent German attempt to outflank the Dnieper line southward and strike at Marshal Budenny s rear. . It is announced in Moscow that a Russian army under General Boldin has rejoined Marshal Timoshenko’s main forces on the central front after being surrounded for 45 days westward of Minsk. The army fought bitterly, without a spell, and finally hacked its way through the German lines. The Swiss newspaper “Neueswiener -Tagblatt’s” correspondent with the German Army says German attempts to use the Russian telegraph system failed. The difficulties of the signals sections are providing the biggest obstacle of the wai. The long distances make difficulties enough, but the Russian tactics of attacking the rear and harassing the flanks from the cover of woods mean that members of the Signal Corps are constantly involved in fighting fanatical Bolshevist civilians, interspersed with Red Army units, who carry out ceaseless sabotage.