HALT IN OFFENSIVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1941, Page 6

HALT IN OFFENSIVE

ADMITTED BY GERMANS COMPLEX & WIDESPREAD OPERATIONS. STRONG RUSSIAN ATTACKS IN LENINGRAD AREA. (Received This Day, .11.15 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, October 21. The “Social Demokraten’s" Berlin correspondent reports that German officials admit that the offensive against Moscow has assumed a stationary character. They give as a reason the complicated and widespread operations. The German news agency states that the Soviet yesterday counter-attacked with great ferocity on a broad front against German troops advancing in

the Lake Ladoga area. The attacks were repelled. Declaring that the Russians have taken the initiative in the Leningrad sector, the “Corriere Della Sera” describes a Russian landing of 4,000 troops supported by heavy artillery and planes, behind the German lines on the Leningrad front. Soviet planes swooped a few yards from the ground and machine-gunned German positions. A special Berlin announcement states that all Baltic islands, including Dago, are in German hands. Dago was finally captured after ten days of fierce fighting. The campaign in the Baltic is now considered ended. A Gerpaan communique says: “Italian and German units yesterday occupied an area around the town of Stalin and alpine detachments took the town. During the mopping-up of the battlefield east of Bryansk, General Patrov, commander-in-chief of the Fiftieth Soviet Army, and mmeber of the Supreme Soviet Council, in addition to several members of his staff, were killed.”