SUCCESSFUL STAND
IN KHARKOV BATTLE REPORTED BY RUSSIANS. DESTRUCTION OF NAZI PLANES & SHIPS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Bay, 1.5 p.m.) RUGBY, May 29. Tonight’s Soviet communique says: “On May 29 our troops continued defensive operations on the Isyum-Bar-venkova front ahd repulsed enemy tank and infantry, attacks. Nothing of importance occurred' on other fronts. “On May 27, sixty ahd hot 28 German planes were destroyed. On May 28, 53 German planes‘were destroyed. We lost 21. “On the Barents Sea, an enemy trawler of 800 tons and an enemy transport of 12,000 tons were sunk.” A supplenieritary communique says: “The Soviet Air Force on May 28, on various sectors of the front, destroyed or damaged fifteen tanks, 100 lorries with troops and Army supplies, blew up two ammuriliidn duirips and routed and partly annihilated three infantry companies.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1942, Page 4
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136SUCCESSFUL STAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1942, Page 4
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