AIR BATTLES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1942, Page 3

AIR BATTLES

INTENSE IN SEBASTOPOL REGION ' GERMANS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES. AUtfWW ® *•« **" *■! s KI V ® TB4 B SOVIET GUERILLAS PLAYING IMPORTANT PART. LONDON, June 7. Land fighting on the Russian front is still on a minor scale. The war in the air has flared up with renewed ferocity over Sebastopol, where, since the beginning of the month, the Germans have* launched a new air offensive. The Germans have suffered heavy losses. The Russian Air Force is fiercely attacking enemy mechanised columns moving up to the Sebastopol area. The defenders there are still holding their own. In skirmishes taking place elsewhere on the Russian front, guerillas are still playing an important part. Round Smolensk guerillas have killed 15,000 of the enemy and have also accounted for 27 enemy planes and 34 tanks. SOVIET SUCCESSES IN LOCAL ENGAGEMENTS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, June 7. The Moscow radio says a Russian reconnaissance reported a German concentration of infantry and tanks in one sector of the south-western front. Russian artillery opened fire, destroyed three German tanks and killed a hundred German officers and men. Afterwards Soviet infantry launched an attack and occupied an important height. On another section of the same front the Germans launched an attack against Russian positions. They were repelled with heavy losses to the enemy.