FIGHTING MOVING
INTO HEART OF GERMAN DEFENCES ACCORDING TO MOSCOW RADIO. REPORTS ABOUT KERCH IN CONFLICT. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 20. It is announced at Moscow that fierce fighting is still raging around Kerch.' • A German communique reiterates a claim that the Germans have reached the'Straits of Kerch over their whole length and that the last two stronglyfortified bridgeheads have been captured. An Ankara report states that Marshal Timoshenko has begun a new counter-attack at Isyum. A big tank battle is raging. The Moscow radio says the Germans on the Kharkov front are failing back with evergrowing rapidity. The battles have moved into the heart of the German defences. The Russians are driving wedges into the enemy positions at unexpected points. The debris of German planes, burnt-out tanks, smashed guns and wrecked lorries marks the retreat Df the enemy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 3
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146FIGHTING MOVING Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 3
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