MOSCOW BATTLES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1941, Page 5

MOSCOW BATTLES

CONTINUANCE OF SOVIET ONSLAUGHTS FIGHTING IN THE DONETZ BASIN. ITALIANS SUFFER SEVERELY. (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, November 9. “Soviet troops on the Moscow front last night were engaged in fortifying their defences,” says the “Pravda.” The Russians have surrounded a village in the Volokolamsk area and are continuing their onslaughts. They also counter-attacked on the right flank of the Mojaisk sector, where several villages changed hands a number of times, and the Soviet troops are coun-ter-attacking in the Serpukhov area. “The Germans have been unable in the last few days to press their advance in the Donetz basin. Russian counter-attacks have inflicted heavy losses and are being continued. The Russians repulsed an attack at one point by two Italian battalions which suffered severe losses. The German General Rens, was killed by a Soviet tank in a tank battle in this area.” GOOD PROGRESS IN TRANSFER OF FACTORIES. LONDON, November 8. The "Kuibyshev correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says the Russians have made a good job of evacuating machinery from the menaced regions to safe areas east of the Volga. He has visited a fuse factory covering scores of acres and employing between 10,000 and 20,000 workers of whom nine-tenths are women. Many are enthusiastically doing double shifts. There has always been a great munitions industry east of the Volga which the Russians greatly extended after the German invasion of Poland, he reports. GERMAN REPORT PROGRESS IN CRIMEA. ■' I (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, November 9. A German communique states: “German and Rumanian troops in the Crimea have successfully continued their pursuit of the defeated enemy along the southern coast and in the peninsula of Kerch. We have taken Yalta.”