IN RUSSO-GERMAN CAMPAIGN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1941, Page 5

IN RUSSO-GERMAN CAMPAIGN

At Opening of Third Month of Fighting * THREE GREAT BATTLES IN PROGRESS NAZIS CLAIM ADVANCE TOWARDS LENINGRAD LOXDOX, Au,oust 22. The third month of the Russian-German campaign opened today without any decisive change in any of the three great battles now raging—those near Leningrad, in the central sector and in the Ukraine. In the Leningrad area there is still no confirmation that the Germans are anywhere near the main defences, though the enemy claim to be making steady progress. Not a single bomb fell in the city when the German Air Force made 17 attempts against it yesterday, but the attack on the approaches to Leningrad is unceasing. The people of Leningrad are grim and quiet and thousands are joining the People’s Army and thousands more are working on defences. At Gomel, in the central sector, the German drive to the south-east is apparently aimed at threatening the rear of the Russian forces in the Ukraine. The Germans claim the capture of a port on the Black Sea between Odessa and the mouth of the Dnieper, after fierce Russian resistance. A German attempt to make landings from the sea was frustrated by the Soviet Air Force, which attacked a German convoy off the Rumanian coast. Two transports were sunk, a third set on fire and others hit. Professor Thomas, one of the British experts in Moscow, states that few enemy aircraft have ever reached the centre of Moscow. In a raid on which the Germans were said to have used 500 planes not one of them arrived.