BITTER FIGHTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1941, Page 6

BITTER FIGHTING

BUT NO RECENT CHANGE IN POSITIONS ON LENINGRAD FRONT. SOVIET GAIN IN CENTRE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 28. Although reports from both Moscow and Berlin indicate a continuance of bitter fighting around Leningrad. there are no claims of material gains from either side. Meanwhile Moscow reports a new success for Marshal Timoshenko’s army in the Elnia sector. Advancing on a ten mile front, Marshal Timoshenko's troops forced the River Deana and straightened out a bulge in the line, then pushed the front forward to another river, designated as “S." The result of this action is that ten more villages were recaptured. The “Red Star” claims that the Russians have pierced the German fortifications at Staraya Russe and recaptured five villages. According to dispatches to Stockholm German land operations against the Crimea are. confined to a costly frontal attack across the Isthmus at Perekop. It is pointed out that outflanking moves in the Crimea are impossible because of the participation of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.