SURVEY OF FRONTS
VERY SEVERE FIGHTING ROUND LENINGRAD POSSIBLE GERMAN PLANS. IN NORTH AND SOUTH. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, September 10. A survey of the situation in the German-Russian fighting shows, according to authoritative circlies, that fighting round Leningrad continues to be very severe and the Germans have sustained very heavy casualties. Further south, at Elnia, the Russians have made a*successful counter-attack, with a substantial gain of ground. It is not known whether the coun-ter-attack is still continuing, but it is undoubted proof of the power of the Russian army to hit back at the Germans. There is also news of a counter-attack in the Gomel sector, probably on a smaller scale, which met with some success, but the scale is such that, unless it is continued, it cannot be expected to hold up a further German movement in this direction. There are no further' details of activity in the Dnieper Bend. Fighting continues and attempts have been made by the Germans to cross the river at 1 different places, but there is no information that they have attained their object. Unofficial expert opinion agrees that the Germans might now make two further efforts. First, they might use parachute troops to surprise the Leningrad defences —it is recalled that although the Liege defences in the Western campaign were known to be exceedingly strong the Germans reduced them by first taking Fort Emael by a surprise parachute attack. Again British troops in Crete were at times surprised and surrounded by parachute troops being suddenly dropped at dawn and carrying out a speedy movement before help could be given them. Second, the comparative lull in the Gomel sector might mean that the Germans are reorganising, in readiness for a push to the south, to try to cut off Marshal Budenny's forces, and the opening of such a move might begin very soon.
SOVIET REPORT DETAILS OF ENEMY LOSSES. BLOWS STRUCK BY TANK DIVISION. (Received This Day, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, September 10. A Moscow communique states: “Fighting continues along the whole front. Russian tank divisions on September 7 destroyed 100 tanks and armoured cars, 80 anti-tank guns, 300 ma-chine-guns and mine-throwers, 16 radio stations and 225 motor-cycles. In addition they killed 7.000 infantrymen and annihilated three cavalry squadrons.” GERMAN CLAIM “CONSTANT & SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS.” (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 10. A German communique states: “Constant and successful attacks continue on the Eastern front.” GLOOM IN ITALY SUFFERINGS OF TROOPS IN RUSSIA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 9. The Italian newspaper “Messagero” prints the following gloomy account from its war correspondent with the Italian soldiers in Russia: — “The war in the east daily becomes more complicated. The temperature has sunk to nine degrees during midday and our soldiers suffer through the cold. The enormous distances cause severe difficulties in getting supplies to the troops. The people at home must know all this in order to understand that they have no right to speak of their own hardships, which are nothing compared with the sufferings of the Italian troops on the Eastern Front.”
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