PRESSED WITH POWER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1941, Page 5

PRESSED WITH POWER

SOVIET COUNTER-ATTACKS IN CENTRE AND ON DNIEPER FRONT. RISING- FLOW OF MEN & MATERIALS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, September 3. American correspondents in Berlin say they have been informed that the Germans, in a new onslaught against the defences of Leningrad, have thrust at the nearest point to 15 or 20 miles from the city in the south-west. The Germans, it was declared, are within big-gun range of the city. An official claim has not yet been issued. Russian sources say that the new thrusts have been successfully fended off. The Finns claim to have reached a point 184 miles north-east of the city. The Moscow correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that the whole interlocked series of Russian counterattacks on the central front is continuing doggedly, successfully and often brilliantly. The Russians, he states, are recovering their strength, thanks to the preparations they made eastward of the Urals. New armies are reported to be in training. Aeroplanes are being turned out fast enough to permit the Red Air Force to sustain its attacks. Superhuman efforts are forcing up industrial production to compensate for the drop in output resulting from the invasion of the Ukraine, the loss of which was foreseen years ago. The German spokesmen betray surprise at the übiquity of the Russian offensive spirit, particularly in the Ukraine and on the central front, says “The Times” Stockholm correspondent. Marshal Budenny's raids across the Dnieper have the chief effect of preventing the Germans from releasing any troops to reinforce the central front or from massing a hammerhead against Budenny himself. The raiding forces are not just a handful but are strong units, capable of inflicting havoc wherever they find a weakness, and then, if necessary, dispersing as small guerilla groups or retiring across the Dnieper. A big battle still rages round Odessa. Rome radio says this morning that the position of Odessa is somewhat stronger, and the Milan newspaper “Stampa” says that its fall cannot be expected in a hurry.