SOME ENEMY GAINS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1941, Page 5

SOME ENEMY GAINS

IN NORTHERN & SOUTHERN SREAS HEAVY FIGHTING ALONG WHOLE FRONT. ATTACK ON THE CRIMEAN GATEWAY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, October 1. The latest information regarding the Russian campaign shows that heavy fighting is continuing along the whole front. In the north the Finns claim the capture of Petrozavodsk, on the Lenin-grad-Murmansk railway. The abandonment of Poltava by the Russians brings the Germans further along the road from Kiev to Kharkov and they are now on the western edge of the Donetz Basin. Although there are no major obstacles,, like a large river or a mountain barrier, in the Avay of an advance, the country is likely to prove very difficult. In the Crimea the German attack has reached a point about seven miles south of Perekop, which constitutes an advance of some way along the isthmus, but the Germans are still in the bottleneck. A Russian communique states: “During last night our troops engaged the enemy all along the front.”