BUDENNY EXPECTED TO SAVE LARGE PART OF ARMY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1941, Page 5

BUDENNY EXPECTED TO SAVE LARGE PART OF ARMY

Strong Counter-Attacks South-West of Kharkov ENEMY MAKING NO HEADWAY AGAINST LENINGRAD SLAUGHTER OF RUMANIANS AT ODESSA LONDON, September 23. On the Eastern front the pincer movement round Kiev has provided the Germans with a spectacular thougj costly victory. It is thought that Marshal Budenny may yet be able in. many ways to save a large part of his army to defend Khark v < the neighbouring industrial area. A great struggle may Bxjrected Eussian counterattacks 80 miles south-west of Kharkov. It is four days since the Germans claimed the capture of Poltava, in this region. The Nazi forces are being held up, it is stated, while th main Russian armies are being regrouped for the defence of the Russian industrial area. The Germans have lost 30,000 m in the Ukraine fighting. , In the north, the German forces appear to be still more than 20 miles from Leningrad and have made no serious impression as yet on the strong defensive zone protecting Leningrad. lhe Russians claim that in one sector the Germans; were <back seven miles. North of Leningrad on the Karelian the Russians seem to be holding the Finns on the old line. The Finns are stated to have suffered very heavy cas u the central sector, near Smolensk, the Germans are being kept on the defensive. These operations are local in character and cannot be regarded as constituting a major’ tl ? rus ; At Odessa heavy losses have been suffered by the Rumanians, who drove a large force in a wedge nearly a mile deep into the Russian positions and sent a second big force into the wedge. The Russian artillery then came into action and mowed down the Rumanians at point-blank range.