RUSSIAN WARSHIPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1941, Page 6

RUSSIAN WARSHIPS

ACTIVE AGAINST ENEMY FLANK GERMAN TANK COLUMN CRUSHED. BUDENNY HITTITNG BACK IN SOUTH. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) * LONDON, September 25. The Vichy News Agency reports that Russian warships continue to steam into the Gulf of Finland and heavily shell German positions in the vicinity of Leningrad. Squadrons of British planes are helping the Russian Air Force to inflict serious losses on the Germans. A German tank column, attempting to infiltrate behind the Russians, under the Red Flag, met with a crushing defeat. They lost 36 tanks and over one hundred German officers and men were killed. Marshal Budenny’s troops are hitting back at several points in the Ukraine, while the left wing of his army has flared into violent activity, near the Black Sea coast. Red Army regulars and Home Guard troops continue to deal heavy blows against the Rumanians on the Odessa front. Two Rumanian divisions were routed during attempts to win back strategic position from which they had been ejected. SOUTHERN FRONT GERMAN AIR RAIDS ON CRIMEA. PROGRESS CLAIMED IN DONETZ BASIN. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 25. A Berlin radio message stated that the Crimea isthmus has been heavily air raided, causing violent explosions and fires. The Hungarian Army Command claimed that German-Hungarian troops have reached the outskirts of one of the most important industrial towns in the Donetz Basin. GROUND REGAINED BY LENINGRAD DEFENDERS. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 25. Heavy rain is falling on most of the Russian front. Despite the German forecast that Leningrad and likewise Odessa, would fall within a few days, the defenders of Leningrad have recaptured several fortified points and held them against all attacks by panzers and infantry. NAZI REPORTS (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) LONDON, September 25. Dispatches from Berlin claim that new ground has been gained near’ Leningrad and a large factory occupied, after breaking Soviet resistance. The Germans in another sector, it is claimed, captured “a bigger locality and several small villages. German artillery turned back Russian warships attempting to intervene.” A Berlin communique states: “Desperate attempts to break out by the last of the enemy forces pocketed eastwards of Kiev were defeated with bloody losses. The Russian Comman-der-in-Chief on the south-west front, General Kirponos, was killed, together with his staff and also the staffs of the Fifth and 21st armies.” EFFECTIVE WORK DONE BY RUSSIAN GUERILLAS. • MANY GERMANS KILLED OR CAPTURED. (Received This 1 Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 25. Moscow reports that four expeditions against guerillas in the Minsk area failed completely. Guerillas in this area in September killed 2,500 Germans and captured 400 lorries. A unit blew up eight German munition depots and also successfully attacked supply columns.