Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

VERY INTENSIVE

FIGHTING ON CENTRAL FRONT RUSSIANS STANDING FIRM. AGAINST HEAVY ENEMY FORCES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY, October 21. The Moscow radio gives a report from the central front that the fighting is very intensive and continues: “The enemy is constantly throwing.big units and many tanks into the fighting, but the Soviet troops are offering a stubborn resistance. The Red Army has succeeded in stopping the advance of the enemy in several sectors. In some sectors our troops have instituted successful counter-at-tacks." The radio then states that, after heavy activity by Soviet artillery, one unit attacked the enemy and entered the town of “K” which had been occupied by the Germans after heavy street fighting. In another sector the Gei’mans threw in seventy tanks and fighting lasted till nightfall, when the enemy had been repulsed. His losses were eleven tanks and many soldiers killed. The Soviet Air Force is constantly dealing blows on the enemy. In one sector on the central front the Red Air Force, during five days, destroyed 108 enemy tanks, 189 motor-cars, six fuel tanks, two heavy tanks, two heavy guns and two anti-aircraft batteries. SOVIET REPORTS t ENEMY AIR & OTHER LOSSES. HEROISM OF RUSSIAN TANK CREWS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY, October 21. A Russian supplementary communique states: “On Sunday ?3 German planes were destroyed. Our losses were

seven plapes. One of our air squadrons, operating on one of the sectors of the Orel front on Sunday, destroyed 23 enemy tanks, six armoured cars and 31 motor-cars. On the same day the same squadron bombed successfully an enemy aerodrome and destroyed 20 German planes on the ground.” The communique then refers to the heroism of the Soviet tank crews, operating on the Orel front, who were inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. It says: “One tank crew during Sunday killed one company of infantry soldiers. On Saturday one Soviet tank attacked foui'teen German tanks which were in the village of Ilkovo and destroyed nine.”

Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19411022.2.28.4

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1941, Page 5

Word count
Tapeke kupu
337

VERY INTENSIVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1941, Page 5

VERY INTENSIVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1941, Page 5

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert