ABORTIVE EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1943, Page 3

ABORTIVE EFFORT

NAZI ATTACK ON DONETZ FRONT TEMPORARY GAIN QUICKLY LOST. FIERCE AIR FIGHTING NEAR LENINGRAD. LONDON, April 4. Fighting has again flared up on the Donetz front. The Germans renewed their attack South of Tsynm, where the Red Army lias a bridgehead inside a small loop of the river. Some enemy tanks and infantry managed to break into the Russian lines at one point, but a Russian counter-attack drove them back again. Things are fairly quiet along the rest of the front. In the Leningrad area there, have' been further fierce air battles. The Berlin radio commentator, Captain Sertorius, declared yesterday that a concentration of major Russian forces in the Krasnodar area and farther north, which had been observed in the past few days, was possibly the prelude to a big offensive. The Stockholm correspondent of “The Times” reports that the enemy is plentifully supplied with men and material in the Crimea, and that as long as the Axis bridgehead is not divided and separated from the coast these can be transported fairly easily across the Kerch Straits and the Sea of Azov. It is a question which side can divert the larger forces to gain supremacy in the Kuban. The Moscow correspondent of the British United Press says the Germans are rushing up immense reserves of men and material to the Ukraine front. The dense network of railways and roads in the German rear is teeming with traffic. The German High ■Command is regrouping as fast a's possible.