RAGING IN LENINGRAD’S DISTANT DEFENCES
Germans Unable to Advance Further FORCED TO RUSH UP REINFORCEMENTS RUSSIAN SPOKESMAN’S REVIEW RONDON, September 4. The first official news of the great battle for. Leningrad is given tonight by M. Lozovsky, chief of the Soviet Information Bureau, who says an immense and bloody battle is going on by day and by night in the distant defences of the city. The Germans, he states, are unable to advance any further an have been forced to rush up large reinforcements to maintain their present positions. Leningrad, he says, is far from being encircled and is not cut off. The city maintains railway communications with the rest of the country. The Berlin radio refers to new Russian counter-attacks. East of Smolensk the German positions were attacked yesterday from three sides. The Germans say their soldiers fought until their last round of ammunition had run out but they do not say what happened after that.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1941, Page 5
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157RAGING IN LENINGRAD’S DISTANT DEFENCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1941, Page 5
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