NAZI FLEET ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1941, Page 6

NAZI FLEET ATTACK

♦ LED BY BATTLESHIP TIRPITZ Reported on Port in Baltic SHIPS DRIVEN OFF BY RUSSIAN BATTERIES ISOLATED DIVISIONS HOLDING OUT (By Telegraph. —Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, August 22. An unconfirmed report from Stockholm states that the German battleship Tirpitz led a powerful German fleet in an attack on an unspecified Baltic pert, where several Russian divisions, though cut off from Marshal Voroshillov s mam armies, are still holding out. The squadron was driven off by the Kussian coastal batteries.

STAND FOR LENINGRAD

CITY BECOMES AN ARMED FORTRESS

WILL BE DEFENDED STREET BY STREET. ! FAILURE OF ENEMY AIR ATTACKS. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 22. There is every indication that the great battle for Leningrad is becoming more intense. Desperate fighting is proceeding little more than sixty miles from the city. The people of Leningrad are feverishly making every effort to perfect its defences. Marshal Voroshilov’s appeal to the populace has changed the city into an armed fortress almost overnight. Every able-bodied person is ready for battle. Picked groups have gone to the front. At least a million troops • are engaged in defence and Home Guard units are undergoing intensive •training. Destruction battalions have been organised to defend the ■ city street by street. The people are determined to fulfil the injunction from Moscow that every- house in Leningrad will be a fortress and every street an obstacle and grave for Fascists. The Moscow Radio tonight instructed

GERMAN REPORTS

PROGRESS CLAIMED IN NORTH

AND CENTRE

(Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) BERLIN. August 22

The Berlin radio claimed that Ochakov had been occupied after’ fierce resistance.

A German communique says: “Operations are in full progress on the entire front. The last of the enemy bases on the Dnieper are being cleared up. with heavy loses to the enemy, who, northwest cf Kiev, are retiring beyond the Dnieper. The pursuit of the enemy east of Gomel is continuing.

Our troops on the front before Leningrad. and also in Estonia, are pressing forward in attacks. The Finnish front on both sides of Lake Ladoga is gaining ground. A Finnish communique declares that the Finns destroyed the main body of a Russian division near Sortavala, and have occupied Kakisalmi.

the leader of the youth organisations in Leningrad to launch a propaganda campaign pointing cut the important part youth is destined to play in the defence of the city. The “Red Star’ confidently announces that Leningrad’s air defences are impenetrable. It is claimed that seventeen attempts were made on August 21 to raid Leningrad, but that not a single bomb was dropped.