ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1941, Page 6

ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT

Attacks in Several Sectors SOVIET FORCES IN GOOD HEART ENEMY SUPPLY DIFFICULTIES EMPHASISED (By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 1 p.m.) LONDON, October 6. Because Moscow is identified with the core of Russia’s spiritual and administrative resistance, observers tend to concentrate their attention on the German two-pronged movement against the Soviet capital, but apparently the Germans are also endeavouring to smash towards important objectives in other sectors. Even the reported slackening off of the attack against Leningrad may be only relative, because the latest Soviet dispatches describe fierce fighting on the approaches to that city. Reuter’s Moscow correspondent declares that, despite enormous German troop concentrations in the Leningrad area, the Russians believe that the city is no longer under an immediate threat of capture. Communications are maintained with Leningrad by road and rail and Leningrad’s industries are still carrying on, despite considerable difficulties. The Red Fleet in the Baltic is also in no immediate danger. The Russians point out that unless the Germans unexpectedly score an enormous success, they, are faced with the task of keeping a million men under inclement conditions in the Leningrad sector, with their supply problems daily becoming increasingly difficult.