UNSPARING EFFORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1941, Page 6

UNSPARING EFFORTS

RUSSIANS TAKING OVER ' INITIATIVE GERMAN ATTACK ROLLED BACK. “RED STAR” GIVES DETAILS. ’ (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) i RUGBY, September 26. While the Nazis are making special broadcast announcements containing astronomical figures of pri- 1 soners and booty they claim to 1 have captured east of Kiev, reports ’ from Moscow indicate that the Battle of Leningrad is reaching an intensity not yet attained even in this fiercest of all wars, with the < Russians taking over the initiative ‘ in various sectors, and resisting so furiously in others that the general ( initiative might become theirs any day. j The latest dispatches from the front . disclose that. at one point the Red , Army recaptured four large villages , and advanced five miles. The newspaper “Red Star,” describing an unsuccessful attack by an enemy division on one of the most important sectors of the Leningrad front, says a heavy artillery fire vzas opened. Two battalions then charged behind a smoke screen, but were checked by Russian gunfire and rolled back. Four hundred motor cyclists then rushed up and were met by artillery fire and a minefield. They retreated, but at least two infantry battalions tried a “psychological attack,” charging in dense rows. The attempt petered out, the Germans suffering heavy losses.