AIR BATTLES
ON THE EASTERN FRONT 415 NAZI PLANES DESTROYED ' LAST WEEK. AT COST OF 281 RUSSIAN MACHINES. LONDON. September 13. A Soviet communique states that last week 415 German aircraft were destroyed in air combat by antiaircraft gun fire and on enemy as. "Jdromes. The Russian losses were 281. In the Baltic Sea, Russian warships sank a German transport of 10,000 tons. HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL RAID BY SOVIET MARINES IN ARCTIC. MANY GERMANS KILLED & GUNS & DUMPS BLOWN UP. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, September 13. A “Commando” raid by Russian marines landed on the shore of the Barents Sea is reported from Moscow. The Soviet Navy put men ashore and they captured German-held trenches, killing more than 200 men and taking prisoners, as well as destroying eleven large guns and blowing up ammunition dumps. The raid is said to be still in progress. REPELLED WITH LOSS POWERFUL GERMAN ATTACKS ON STALINGRAD. RUSSIAN GAINS ON CENTRAL FRONT. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, September 13. The Germans west and southwest of Stalingrad have launched between 30 and 40 attacks in the past 24 hours but have failed to make any large-scale breakthrough. The Germans follower up the capture of a settlement south-west of Stalingrad with three attacks, all of which were repelled with heavy losses. A German communique claims tnai. Axis forces stormed several positions on the edge of Stalingrad and penetrated into the southern part of the city. Moscow announces that, despite heavy enemy counter-attacks and also rain, the Russians continue to advance in the Sinyavino sector, south of Shlusselburg. The Germans are bringing up reinforcements, by land and air. The importance the Germans attach to the Sinyavino fighting can be gauged from their massive counterattacks, which have already cost them 5,000 men. The Moscow radio reported that the enemy has begun to withdraw from the mountains near Mosdok, after heavy losses, inflicted as the result of ambushes. The Germans on the central front have suffered a severe setback in the fighting for an important .ownship. The Russians attacked the township on Friday and the Germans counter-attacked on Saturday with 90 anlcs and infantry. They lost 49 tanks, _n addition to a large number of troops. The Russians also gainecL a 3 aj-ically important village and bridge's head, ensuring progress in a neighbouring sector. The British United Press correspondent at Moscow says 15,000 more enemy troops have been killed on the Russian front during the past few days, two-thirds of whom died before Stalingrad.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1942, Page 4
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