COSTLY FAILURE
NAZI MECHANISED ATTACK IN CRIMEA ENEMY LOSS OF 32 TANKS. SOVIET TROOPS CROSS FRONTIER OF WHITE RUSSIA. A big German tank attack in the Crimea is reported by the ivar correspondent of the “Pravda.” The Germans, he reports, sent a whole tank division against the Russian Army’s defences and tried to follow up with hundreds (fl motorised infantry. . At the end of the battle, which started at dawn and lasted all day, the enemy forces had to give u]i. Altogether 3'2 tanks were accounted for. Eight of them were found in good working order.
There is no official news of any vital change on the Russian front. It is reported unofficially that Red Army units have crossed the frontier of White Russia, adjacent to Poland, at a number of unspecified points. While confirmation of this report is awaited, it is realised that Russian forces have been operating near the White Russian frontier for some time. The “Red Star” states that in February and March the Germans on the Russian front lost nearly half a million men, including 137,000 killed, over 1000 guns, 3000 machine-guns and 184 tanks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1942, Page 3
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189COSTLY FAILURE Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1942, Page 3
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