SEVERE FIGHTING
IN KERCH PENINSULA GERMANS REPORT “PURSUIT.” RUSSIANS FULLY CONFIDENT OF OUTCOME. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, May 14. An American radio commentator, broadcasting from Moscow, says the Battle of Kerch is as severe as any in this war. Both sides fully realise the importance of holding the peninsula, which is too narrow to permit of large-scale engagements. Although the Russians withdrew to new positions, they are fully confident of the outcome. The German High Command claims that a pursuit of the Russians on the Kerch Peninsula is continuing after a break through the Parpach line. Torrential rain, it is added, is not hampering. the quick German advance much.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1942, Page 4
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