HEARD IN LONDON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1941, Page 6

HEARD IN LONDON

GENS IN LENINGRAD BATTLE BROADCAST FROM FRONT LINE. 1 SIGNIFICANCE OF FIGHTING IN CENTRE. (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, September 10. Londoners today • heard guns booming in the fierce battle for Leningrad when they clearly picked up the Leningrad radio’s relay from the front line of a dramatic broadcast to Russian factory workers. The tumult of the battlefield vividly focused attention on Marshal Voroshilov’s valiant struggle against the invaders who are feverishly attempting to batter down the defences of Leningrad. German despatches admit heavy fighting everywhere neai- the city, against whose defenders the Germans are using “the greatest masses of planes ever known.” Meanwhile, Marshal Timoshenko apparently continues heavily to bomb the enemy at various points on the. central sector, although an absence of place names, and also of dates, makes it difficult to disentangle various claims regarding the destruction of German forces. “The Times” correspondent on the German frontier, however, says the Russian victory in the Smolensk region is so momentous, in view of winter's approach, that it almost justifies the hope of an eleventh hour tide turning on the Eastern front, and at least assures Moscow’s safety this year, while making improbable a successful German drive across the Dnieper.