BOLD RAID
BY SOVIET WARSHIPS ALONG SHORES OF SEA OF AZOV. ENEMY POSITIONS BLASTED. LONDON, December 9. The Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Express” reports a daring raid by Russian warships. Coming from Sebastopol the Russian battleship Pariskaya Kommiina, escorted by three cruisers and several destroyers, made a lightning raid along the shores of the Sea of Azov and caused panic among General von Kleist’s retreating troops. The raid greatly surprised the Germans who never supposed the Russians would be bold enough to send ships through the Kerch Strait, the western side of which is dominated by German guns. With her 12-inch guns the battleship shelled the road between Taganrog and Mariupol which skirts the shores of the Sea of Azov, after which the warships turned west and bombarded Mariupol for 15 minutes, destroying most of the fortified positions which the Germans had built around the city. After the raid the warships, without loss, returned to Sebastopol. Russian fighters helped to beat off German bombers. The military spokesman in Berlin claimed that Taganrog is still in German hands.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 December 1941, Page 5
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178BOLD RAID Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 December 1941, Page 5
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