SOVIET ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1941, Page 5

SOVIET ATTACKS

IN NORTHERN & CENTRAL SECTORS BUDENNY STRIKING WEST OF DNIEPER. CONFLICTING REPORTS ABOUT BALTIC. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, August 31. Soviet counter-attacks continue in sectors on the northern and central fronts, and the Paris radio says that Marshal Budenny’s army is making strong efforts to regain a foothold west of the Dnieper estuary. The Germans have made little progress toward Leningrad, and the Berlin spokesman sp'oke of the “tenacious opponents.” A Swedish correspondent says the Russians have destroyed a dam and power station on a river 75 miles from Leningrad on the. Finnish front. The Finns claim to have penetrated into Viborg. Inside Estonia, where the Germans on August 29 claimed the capture of Tallinn and Baltiski, Russian detachments still hold on. The Moscow spokesman, M. Lozovsky, said he had>' no information to give about Tallinn.. Berlin claimed that 90 Russian ships} were sunk or crippled during the evacuation of Tallinn, and the Nazi spokesman said the Soviet Navy met a fate at Tallinn similar to that of the Allied fleet at Dunkirk. ' Correspondents state that most of the troops were successfully evacuated to Leningrad and the town was left wrecked after a terrific fight.