BIG AIR BATTLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1942, Page 4

BIG AIR BATTLE

FOUGHT OVER BARENTS SEA DEFENCE OF CONVOY BOUND FOR RUSSIA. THIRTY GERMAN PLANES (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 19. The'Moscow radio reports that a gigantic air battle, Hi which four hundred German and Russian planes were engaged, was fought over the Barents Sea, when strong German naval and air forces attacked a convoy en route to Russia. Russian warships and submarines went to the aid of the convoy and 30 German planes were shot dcwn.

SOVIET RESERVES

SEVERAL MILLIONS WAITING. ACCORDING TO ANKARA MESSAGE. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 19. An Ankara message says wellinformed Turks declare that the Russians have several millions of well-equipped reserves within the Voronezh - Astrakhan - Kuibyshev triangle.

COASTAL RAID

REPORTED BY GERMANS.* (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 19. A German communique states that the Russians attempted a landing from the sea east of Mariupol, but were beaten back. The Berlin radio reveals that the Russians had gained a foothold but Rumanian cavalry discovered and repused them. The radio adds that the Russian bpats escaped under cover of darkness. The Russian objective was the destruction of a coastal artillery post.