HIGH TENSION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1943, Page 3

HIGH TENSION

ALONG WHOLE EASTERN FRONT

RECAPTURE OF HILL IN KUBAN

CLAIMED BY THE GERMANS.

RUSSIAN GUNS POUNDING ENEMY LINES.

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright)

(Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 4

After emphasising earlier than the Kuban fighting had again flared up with a Russian attack, the Germans tonight report, their recapture of a height. The Berlin radio states that German reserve formations made a counter-thrust early yesterday and that a large number of batteries and bombs from several hundred planes displaced the Russians from an important hill position. Reuter’s Moscow correspondent says there is tension along the whole front, with an air of expectancy everywhere. Detailing sectors, the correspondent declares that the Red Army on the Kalinin front holds the initiative and in the past 24 hours has improved its line. The Russians struck forward in a new local attack, capturing another village and dominant hill. German attempts to restore the position failed. The Russians are giving finishing touches to their defences. At Voroshilovgrad, for example, the whole population has recently been working on fortifications. The Russian artillery is systematically weakening German positions. The guns are roaring all day and night. At the Lisichansk bridgehead, where a big German drive is expected, the Germans are maintaining permanent night dive-bombing attacks against the swaying pontoon bridge across the Donetz over which Russian lorries' still trundle.