HEAVY FIGHTING
CONTINUED IN THE KIEV SECTOR POSSIBLE ENEMY PLANS. RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) RUGEY. September 22. It is confirmed authoritatively in London that particularly heavy fighting persists in the Kiev sector. Further south the Germans claim to have reached the Sea of Azov. If true this report would confirm the earlier German claim to have cut off the Crimea from the mainland.
In' the Smolensk and Leningrad sectors a continuance of heavy fighting is reported. There is no indication whether the Germans, following the fall of Kiev, will continue to drive north or south, or both, but an objective indicated by their claim to have reached the Sea of Azov seems to be Rostov, a city of 500,000 inhabitants on the Don. The'plans of Marshal Timoshenko and those forces engaged in the Smolensk sector are keeping the enemy guessing. The reasons for the slowing down of the Russian advance towards Smolensk may be the withdrawal of troops to provide relief in other sectors. or preparations for an intensive Russian counter-offensive.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1941, Page 5
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