HEAVY LOSSES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1942, Page 3

HEAVY LOSSES

SUFFERED BY GERMANS ON THE LENINGRAD FRONT IN APRIL. MUCH NAZI MATERIAL CAPTURED OR DESTROYED. LONDON, May 1. A special announcement by the Moscow radio confirms earlier reports that despite bad weather heavy fighting has taken place during the; past month around Leningrad. During April, the Germans on this front had lost 58,000 killed or wounded. Large quantities of enemy war material were destroyed and a great deal more fell into Russian hands. The enemy losses included 19 tanks and over 1000 machine-guns, 109 guns and more than 400 lorries. The Leningrad defenders destroyed 248 enemy planes during the same period. The latest Soviet communique reports that no great change occurred yesterday. The Red Army was still attacking in the north and had gained local successes in the region of Smolensk. The United States Ambassador (Mr J. G. Winant) declared in London that the average American wanted to give all possible support to the Soviet Union. Mr Winant emphasised that his people were prepared for a long war. RAIDS ON BRITAIN FIVE PERSONS KILLED IN SHELTER. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, May 1. During a night raid on a north-east coastal town, a high-explosive bomb hit a shelter containing eleven persons and killed five of them. Two others are still unaccounted for. An unusual incident occurred in a raid against an East Coast town nearby. A bomb explosion startled a man who was dozing, with a pipe in his mouth. He woke up with a jerk and the pipe fell to the carpet and set fire to the house.

The Berlin news agency stated that German bombers last night raided Sunderland;