HEAVY FIGHTING
GROUND STREWN WITH GERMAN DEAD BIG CAPTURE OF MATERIAL. ACHIEVEMENTS OF GUERILLAS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, October 3. A Russian communique states: “Our troops were engaged in heavy fighting in one sector on the south-western front for two days. After the battle the ground was strewn with bodies of the enemy, over 2,700 German soldiers and officers being killed. Fortyone guns, of all calibres, sixteen tanks, seventeen mortars, 92 machine-guns, several armoured cars and other war materials were captured. Guerillas in the Chernigov district blew up, in the second half of September, eleven bridges, destroyed nineteen tanks, six armoured cars, 69 lorries with ammunition, numerous guns and other war material. More than 450 German officers and soldiers were killed by the same group. In the north-western sector large groups of guerillas arrived only a short time ago from. France.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1941, Page 5
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