AGAIN HALTED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 250, 4 August 1941, Page 6

AGAIN HALTED

THE DRIVE TOWARD LENINGRAD FIGHTING IN THE KIjEV SECTOR. FLARES IJP IN ESTONIA. (United Press Association—(Rqc. 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 3.’ After the failure to penetrate the Russian defences in the central sector the German offensives have apparently intensified^toward Kiev and LeningradThe latent; official reports received from Moscow Indicate thaf sangpipary battles are pi’peeemng; da,y ap& night in the southern septqr. The Germans have seemingly; thrown a wide arc around the ,southern and western approaches of Kiev, although the indefinitenss of the German references to the fighting in this spctpr indicates that the German advance may he no more than a break-thrpugh by tanks. A Rumanian communique claims that after fighting between the Dniester and the Bug-Rivers large Soviet forces are threatened from the rear. The communique adds that an eu circl ing manoeuvre is developing, putting the Russians in i 4’ serious position. There are apparently no. important developments in Finland but lighting flared up furiously in Estonia after the lull following tiie decisive check to the Germans around Pskov l and Porkhov. ■ The Germans claim, considerable successes west of Lake Roiriis, but the British United Press correspondent at '.Moscow reports that the drives toward ' Leningrad, both from the north and from'the south, are again being halted. The Finns admit, great Russian activity northwards of'Lake Ladoga, where the Russians are stated to have been constantly attacking. ~ V The Moscow newspaper' Pravda publishes a special message from 1 allin (Estonia), reporting that the crty iS calm and vigilant, and is consistently beating off enemy raids from the Gulf of Finland. Thousands of workers ih Tallin joined “destruction battalions” for fighting parachutists and have already been in action. A people s army is also being created. . . Bitter fighting continues in the .'Smolensk wedge hut no change is reported fi-om either side, though ffre German News Agency claijned good results east of Smolensk,