SAVAGE CONFLICT
SOVIET COUNTER-ATTACKS IN CENTRE SOME DETAILS OF ENEMY LOSSES. MANY TANKS CRIPPLED OR DESTROYED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY, October 7. Extremely fierce fighting is raging in a number of sectors of the central Russian front, where the Germans have driven panzer wedges into the positions of the Red Army. According to the “Red Star,” German losses in these attacks in three sectors alone number more than a thousand killed, 198 tanks crippled and 31 planes brought down. In one sector, General Goldin, after a long march, hurled a Red Army infantry unit, supported by tanks and aircraft, against the enemy. The concentration and fierceness of the battle grew hourly. Russians, armed with automatic weapons, broke through one of the wedges to a post where Soviet infantry, supported by tanks and artillery, had ,been resolutely counterattacking. This attack destroyed 38 enemy tanks and 31 planes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1941, Page 5
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151SAVAGE CONFLICT Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1941, Page 5
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