UNSPARING CALL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1941, Page 6

UNSPARING CALL

MADE ON ENEMY FORCES IN ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE AGAINST MOSCOW. SNOW SHROUDS BATTLE AREAS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, November 24. Forty German divisions, including half of all the tanks available to the High Command, are being thrown into the all-out offensive against Moscow, says the “Red Star.” The Russians are being slowly pushed back at a number of points. Heavy snow has fallen on the Moscow front. Moscow itself is covered in deep snow. The Russians frustrated German attacks in the region of Volkhov and then spiritedly charged, recaptured several settlements and pursued the enemy for several miles. Similar successes are reported near Tikhvin. The Moscow radio reports that, af- „ ter fierce fighting, the Russians have, recaptured Krasnayavisherka, which is an important village north-eastward of Novgorod. It was the headquarters of the Thirtieth Regiment of the Eighteenth German Motorised Division. The Russians smashed through three lines of German trenches before reaching the village. Two hundred Germans were killed. After a comparative lull, fierce fighting is occurring again in the Crimea. It is particularly severe on the right flank, where the enemy has concentrated large forces. One Soviet unit cut a strategically important road and, with resolute counter-attacks, is keeping the enemy at bay. A German communique says: “Our attacks on the central sector of the Eastern front gained fresh ground, after bitter fighting. We captured Solnechnayagora.”