NO MAJOR CHANGES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1941, Page 5

NO MAJOR CHANGES

BUT ATTACK BEING PRESSED AGAINST RESOLUTE RESISTANCE. SOVIET TROOPS FIGHTING DEVOTEDLY. ' (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, October 15. Although no major changes are reported in London from the Russian front, competent military observers stress that the German attack is still being vigorously pressed. It is also emphasised the Soviet troops have not lost cohesion and are fighting with tenacity and great- devotion. On the Leningrad front, while the absence of news of Nazi attacks may indicate that the High Command has decided to try to starve the city into surrender, it may well be that the Germans have found it necessary to transfer considerable forces to the central front, where a Russian communique mentions heavy fighting in the direction of Kalinin. Reference to this town lends colour to the belief that the Nazis have moved considerably east of Rzhev. Further south, heavy fighting is taking place in the neighbourhood of Mojaisk, on the ViazmaMoscow railway, but there is no indication that the Germans have captured the town. Neither in the Orel sector nor in the direction of Kharkov is there news of the progress of the fighting.

North of the Sea of Azov the Nazi progress seems to have slowed down for the time being. There is no further news of operations on the Perekop Isthmus. Bad road conditions and heavy , rain and snow are reported to be hindering large scale troop movements in the Ukraine.