NEW INTENSITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1941, Page 6

NEW INTENSITY

REACHED IN LENINGRAD BATTLE Russians Attacking Day and Night WARSHIPS AT KRONSTADT GIVING USEFUL AID HEAVY FIGHTING ON CENTRAL FRONT (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, September 26. The Russians are launching an increasing number of counter-attacks on the Leningrad front. They recaptured four villages at one point and pushed the Germans back five miles. Fighting has reached its highest pitch in . the south-east and south-west approaches to the city, where the Russians are reported to be’ attacking in mass formations, alternating with skirmishing tactics. ' . , The Russians are also resorting to night attacks in an ettort to retain the initiative. .. A dispatch to Vicrly claims that after occupying a town ten miles south of Leningrad, the Germans are launching attacks against the fortified heights overlooking Pulkova. The damaged battleships Marat and October Revolution, and also Russian coastal batteries, are pounding the German positions between. Peterhof and Oranienburg. A German correspondent says the guns of the Marat and October. Revolution, off Kronstadt, are seriously handicapping the attack on Leningrad despite constant dive-bombing attacks on the warships. Kronstadt, in addition to harbouring a large number of valu-. able warships, is playing a vital part in the Russian defence. The German news agency declares that the Russians are throwing great masses of troops against the German positions on the north sector of the central front, attempting to draw German! strength from Leningrad 1 . Marshal Timoshenko has scored further local successes on the central front, where he is steadily advancing towards Smolensk. „ _ A „ Vichy reports say Field-Marshal Von Runstedt s iorces have pushed 120 miles eastwards of Dnepropetrovsk and occupied the town of Stalin. The reports admit that Marsnal Budenny is strongly counter-attacking between Kiev and Poltava. . ' » n u The Helsinki radio declared that Germans from Poltava are at the gates of Kharkov and are also approaching Orel.