FRONT BATTLES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1941, Page 6

FRONT BATTLES

NOUGHT ON “GIGANTIC OPERATIONS’ Referred to by Hitler on Friday INDICATION OF FIRM DEFENCE OF GATEWAY TO CRIMEA RUSSIAN LOCAL SUCCESSES IN LENINGRAD AREA (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, October 5. Although the Germans continue to report favourable progress on the Eastern front, no light has yet been thrown on the nature of the “gigantic operations’’ to which Hitler referred on October 3. Communiques, from both Berlin and Moscow, remain uninformative, while the general omission of specific localities from semi-official reports of fighting makes it difficult to visualise progress in any sector of the huge front. . General von Leeb’s armies are still unable to claim any substantial progress against the heroic defenders of Leningrad, while Moscow claims a continuance of local successes at several points on this front. ‘ There is little news of developments in the Ukraine or the Crimea, although the fighting in these sectors at present holds the most anxious attention. The German admission of stubborn fighting in the region of Perekop suggest that Marshal Budenny’s forces are still firmly astride the road to the Crimea. Possibly referring' to Marshal Budenny’s counter-attack, from the vicinity of Militopol, a Rumanian communique reports a battle in the- Azov Sea area, and claims that the Russian forces were repulsed and are retreating.