NEW OFFENSIVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1942, Page 4

NEW OFFENSIVE

EXPECTED ON LENINGRAD .. FRONT . NAZIS REPORT POWERFUL SOVIET ATTACKS. SEBASTOPOL FIGHTING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, June 7. The Germans admit powerful Russian attacks on the Leningrad front, which neutral correspondents believe to be the prelude to a general Russian 'offensive on this front, anticipating a German offensive which is expected at any moment. Violent air battles arc being fought out over Sebastopol as a result of a new German drive against that base. Russian Stormoviks are pounding German mechanised units moving up on the stronghold. The “Red Star” reports that masses of German bombers are indiscriminately attacking Sebastopol, but electricity and water supplies are not damaged and communications are intact. No important military objectives have been hit. Twenty-six German planes have been shot down in this area in the past three days. . A German spokesman claims German success in the Volkhov area. Despite floods and swamps, he says, the Germans gained territory and cut off substantial Russian forces.

TRANSFER OF PLANES FROM THE EASTERN FRONT. REPORTED IN SWEDEN. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, June 7. A National Broadcasting Company’s broadcaster in Stockholm quoted the belief of Swedish military correspondents that the recent big R.A.F. raids had caused the Germans to withdraw planes from the Eastern front. The British raids are believed to have postponed, at least temporarily, any wide scale German operations to the east. POPULAR SAVING AMONG THE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS. “ENGLISH ARE GIVING THEM HELL.” (Received This Day, 12,25 p.m.) LONDON, June 7. “ ‘Anglichanye Dayut Zhizn,’ a piece of soldiers’ slang which can be translated colloquially as ‘The English are giving them hell,’ has now widely spread through the Red Army as a message of encouragement,” says “The Times” Moscow correspondent. “The phrase was first heard after the R.A.F. raided Rostock and Lubeck,” the correspondent adds.