STABILITY MEANTIME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1941, Page 5

STABILITY MEANTIME

ON FRONT FROM KALININ TO TULA DEFENCE OF SEBASTOPOL. MAY LAST INDEFINITELY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.47 a.m.) RUGBY, November 6. The position in front of Moscow—broadly speaking, between Kalinin and Tula—may be said to have been established, it is learned authoritatively in London. While a warning is added that the situation may be only temporary, there are no indications that the Germans are making any progress. In fact, they are definitely held, and at least in the Kalinin area, the Russians are counter-attacking. The weather is still very bad. The latest Russian communique does not disclose this information, but merely states: “During the night of November 5 our troops fought the enemy on all fronts.” In the northern sectors, information that has reached London shows no appreciable change. On the Murmansk front the deterioration of the weather appears to have reached a stage where large-scale operations are no longer possible. In the Crimea, the Germans have reached the outer defences of Sebastopol, roughly twenty miles from the city’s centre, but nowhere have they made penetration. A British officer, now in London, who was in the Crimea a month ago, reports that Sebastopol is very strong and very well supplied. There would appear, in fact, a strong chance of establishing a “second Odessa” at Sebastopol, and not necessarily with the same results.