MOVE ON LENINGRAD
SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS MADE BY NAZIS DESTRUCTION OF GERMAN DIVISION. IN UKRAINE BATTLE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received'This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, August 21. The Germans are reported to have made a substantial advance towards Leningrad. The Stockholm “Aftonbladet’s” Berlin correspondent declares that Germans, advancing via Trotsk, were last night
barely twelve miles south of Leningrad. The Berlin Radio has threatened that the Luftwaffe will grind Leningrad to rubble, like that of
Warsaw, if the city is defended
Meanwhile, the Soviet Central Army is counter-attacking strongly in the Smolensk area. The “Red Star” states that troops under General Koniev are increasing the weight of their attacks and have captured more local centres.
Moscow states that Marshal Budenny has routed the 94th German Infantry Division, under General Feiffer. Three-quarters of the division were killed or wounded, and many taken prisoner, in a ten-day battle. The Berlin News Agency claims the capture of high Russian officers in the Dnieper Bend, including Lieu-tenant-General Sokolov, described as commander of the Soviet Sixteenth Tank Corps, who is seriously wounded.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1941, Page 6
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175MOVE ON LENINGRAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1941, Page 6
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