LITTLE PROGRESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1941, Page 5

LITTLE PROGRESS

MADE BY THE GERMANS SITUATION IN CRIMEA IN HAND. FIGHTING AT LENINGRAD & ELSEWHERE. LONDON, October 7. The latest reports from Russia indicate that the Germans have made little progress in their great new offensive. - The situation in the Crimea is said to be in hand. It is learned, in London that a German division is held up on the west shore of the Sea of Azov, and that the German losses on the Crimean isthmus are on a heavy scale. Odessa continues to hold off the invaders. The German attempts to bottle up the Russian Black Sea fleet by the laying of mines from the air have not stopped ‘the regular passage of convoys. Leningrad is fighting on as strongly as ever, and the Finns report a Russian counter-attack on the Karelian Isthmus. Today’s Moscow communique says that Russian forces engaged the enemy along the whole front last night. The communique also mentions the routing of two Austrian infantry battalions in a local engagement in the Ukraine, successful Russian artillery operations in the approaches to Leningrad and guerilla activities near Smolensk.