LASTERN FRONT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1941, Page 6

LASTERN FRONT

INTENSE DRIVES PREPARED BY GERMANS. IN LENINGRAD AND UKRAINE. AREAS. (Received This Day. 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, October 2. News from the Russian front indicates that the Germans are preparing intense drives in the Len-, ingrad and Ukraine areas and are rushing reinforcements to the Leningrad front. The Berlin news agency denied the Russian claim made on September 29. that a 6000-ton German cruiser had been sunk. , PLANS in shape SUPPPLY OF WAR MATERIAL TO SOVIET. (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, October 2. Lord Beaverbrook and Mr Harriman at a Press conference in Moscow revealed that they had brought personal letters from Mr Churchill and President Roosevelt to M. Stalin. Mr Harriman said he was leaving a number of American experts in Moscow, while some United States officers were coming to Moscow in connection with the supply of planes and other equipment to Russia. GERMAN REPORT PRISONERS TAKEN BY ITALIANS (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, October 2. A Germah communique reports: “Operations on the Eastern front are proceeding. according to plan. During encircling operations eastwards of the Dnieper, the Italians ' took prisoner over 8,000 men and inflicted bloody losses on the enenly. ' “The Luftwaffe last night bombed Moscow and Leningrad.”