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Russians Admit Outskirts Reached by Enemy NAZI PROGRESS BEYOND DNIEPER TANK DIVISION HURLED BACK AT LENINGRAD (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.ni.) LONDON, September 19. The German High Command has announced the capture oLKiev. A communique states: “After a bold penetration through a strong fortification on the western bank of the Dnieper, cur troops penetrated into Kiev. The German flag is flying from Kiev’s citadel.” 1 ’ Moscow says the Germans have broken through the fortifications and reached the outskirts of Kiev. It is estimated that the Germans have lost four divisions in this battie, which has been continuous for 45 days. Carnage has also been terrific at Velikiye Luki, where fighting has blazed up intensely, the Germans attacking with forces outnumbering the Rusians two to one. The Germans, with two thousand tanks, advanced from Kremenchung to Poltava. The German High Command announced that Poltava had fallen and that furious engagements were raging at Nikopol and Novogoro Tsovska, where the Germans have established a bridgehead several miles wide. Another brideghead, it is added, has been gained at Borieslav and street fighting is raging in Kakhovka. Marshal Budenny’s artillery is pounding the Germans, who are waging the offensive in this region more fiercely than ever. Late dispatches from the Russian front reveal that terrific battles throughout the front continue, with fluctuating fortunes for the Russians. The “Red Star” says a Russian coumnter-attack hurled back the German Twelfth Tank Division, in its renewed attempt to storm defences south-eastwards of Leningrad. The Russians attacked both frontally and on the flanks, destroying forty tanks and capturing others. A Finnish communique claims that the Finns control the whole of the Leningrad-Murmansk Railway, artillery keeping the line under fire where Finnish troops have not actually occupied the line. The Finnish Air Force, it is claimed, has broken Soviet attempts at counter-attacks on the Karelian Isthmus and in eastern Karelia.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1941, Page 6

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Tapeke kupu
318

CLAIMED BY THE GERMANS Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1941, Page 6

CLAIMED BY THE GERMANS Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1941, Page 6

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