SOVIET REPORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 October 1941, Page 5

SOVIET REPORT

SOME DETAILS OF ENEMY LOSSES GERMAN TANK COLUMNS REPULSED. FIGHTING ON SOUTHERN FRONT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, October 28. A Russian communique states: ‘ Our troops yesterday and last night engaged the enemy in the directions of Mojaisk, Malo Yaroslavets, Kharkov and Takanrog. “It is established that 39 German planes were destroyed on October 25, not 27 as previously stated. Eight enemy planes were brought down near Moscow yesterday. “One of our units, operating in one of the sectors on the central front, successfully repulsed two attacks by German tanks columns, consisting of over 80 tanks. Our men applied skilfully methods of fighting against the tanks and destroyed 42 of them. Attempts by German planes to support the columns were unsuccessful and eight enemy planes were shot down by our antiaircraft fire.

“In one of the sectors on the southwestern front, our units inflicted heavy losses on German troops who attempted to break through our lines of defence. In two days’ fighting 700 German officers and men were killed in front of our positions. Some groups of Nazi soldiers, who broke through the defence lines of our position were sur-

rounded and completely annihilated. Our troops captured 5 enemy tanks, 9 guns, 22 motor mortars, 60 automatic rifles and a large quantity of ammunition.’