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MANY TRAINS

WRECKED IN RUSSIA BY SOVIET AIR FORCE & PARTISANS ATTACKS ON ENEMY SHIPPING. TRANSPORT & CARGO VESSELS SUNK. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.7 a.m.) RUGBY, October 21. During Tuesday night the Soviet Air Force bombed German military trains and stores at the railway junctions of Fastov, Znamenka and Dzhankoy and the railway station at Nikopol, says a Moscow message. No fewer than five trains were wrecked, and large fires which broke out were followed by violent explosions. One Soviet plane failed to return. A Soviet supplement says a Soviet partisan group, operating in a certain area of the Volynya region, in two days derailed three German military trains, tv.’o engines, sixteen trucks laden with tanks and lorries and eighteen wagons carrying various loads. Another partisan group, operating in the same region. during the week blew up six lorries and one light car. The partisans killed four German officers and 33 soldiers. In the Barents Sea three enemy self-propelled barges and an escorting cutter were sunk. In air combats seven German planes were shot down. In the Black Sea one enemy transport of 5,000 tons and two freighters were sunk.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1943, Page 4

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191

MANY TRAINS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1943, Page 4

MANY TRAINS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1943, Page 4

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