ENEMY STILL BAULKED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 265, 21 August 1941, Page 5

ENEMY STILL BAULKED

LEFT ARMY IN UKRAINE I . r~

RUSSIANS RETAKE TOWN

JUNCTION OF TWO FORCES

'(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 20. While a German commuuifjue says that attacks were successfully continued against the few bridgeheads on the Dnieper still in ’enemy hands, Berlin officials this evening admitted that the left ! army of the Ukraine is still baulked by the Russians. Heavy fighting is proceeding in the Kiev and Korosten area. The Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press reports that Marshal Budenny counter-attacked and recaptured a town in . the Ukraine and destroyed two German battalions. According to dispatches to Moscow from the. front, the Germans’ drive from the south against Leningrad is not progressing. The Red Army is stubbornly resisting beyond Kingisepp. However, a German thrust in the direction of Novgorod has brought the fighting within 40 miles of the Leningrad » Moscow railway. General Timoshenko is resisting the thrust toward Gomel, and is endeavouring to foil an apparent German attempt to outflank the Dnieper line southward and strike at Marshal »ur denny’s rear. ' ' * It is announced in Moscow that the Russian Army General Boldin rejoined. General Timoshenko’s main forces on the central front after they had been surrounded ior 45 days west ot Minsk. They fought bitterly without a spell and finally hacked their way through the German lines.