HEAVY NAZI LOSSES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1941, Page 5

HEAVY NAZI LOSSES

IN MOJAISK AREA &IN ' DONETZ BASIN MANY ATTACKS BROKEN BY RUSSIANS. GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESS IN NORTH. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 11. Reports from, the Moscow front state that Russian planes wiped out the headquarters of the German Second Army, near Mojaisk. j Soviet troops have recaptured two ( villages in the Mojaisk sector. The ; Germans are rushing up reinforce- . i merits in the Malo Yaroslavets sector, where the Russians defeated a 1 fresh German attempt to break through. The “Izvestia” says that after bloody ’battles lasting for a week, the Germans have lost at least sixty tanks; almost an entire regiment of motorised infantry and much other equipment in attempting to break the Russian resistance in the Donetz basin. The enemy continues to launch fierce attacks, regardless of losses. The Russian troops continue strongly to resist. A German communique states: “German and Rumanian troops in the Crimea are pushing on towards Sebastopol and Kerch. The Luftwaffe successfully bombed both ports. The Luftwaffe plastered military installations in Moscow. German and Finnish troops annihilated a large section of an enemy division in Northern Karelia, taking 700 pillboxes, 1,200 prisoners and vast quantities of material. ATTACKS REPULSED ON OUTSKIRTS OF TULA. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 11. The Moscow Tass Agency states: “We drove off a German attempt to force the Oka.River in the Serpukhov and Alexin areas, and annihilated Germans who tried to drive a wedge in the Soviet lines. We repulsed two successive tank attacks in the Tula area. Fierce fighting is goihg on in southern suburbs of Tula. The Soviet troops are firmly holding their ground.” MORE FIGHTING SOUTH-EAST OF LENINGRAD. IMPORTANT CAPTURE CLAIMED BY GERMANS. (Received This Day, 9.37 a.m.) LONDON, November 11. The latest news reaching London indicates that there has been renewed activity on the Leningrad front and the Germans have claimed the capture of Tikhvin, about 100 miles south-east of Leningrad. The latest information from this front had been that German attacks had been repulsed, but that hard fighting vzas proceeding. Though there is no confirmation of the German J claim to have captured Tikhvin it is 1 possible that another attack on the 1 town has now succeeded. If that is so s it may prove the beginning of a drive " towards Valogda, an important city } some 250 miles to the east. It is considered in London, .however, more likely to be an attempt to join up ’ with the Finns in the Karelian Isth--1 mus. The capture of Tikhvin, if true, 3 would mean that the Germans have 3 advanced some twenty miles from 1 their previous position. " ) The Soviet midday war communique J confines itself to the statement that . during the night'fighting took place _ along the whole front. f i WAGONS FOR RUSSIA r t GREAT INCREASE IN BRITISH c OUTPUT. t (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) 1 LONDON, November 11... 1 The Southern Railway has made 1000 goods wagons for Russia in 10 weeks, 3 a total which has been, one year’s Q peace time output.