INVADING ARMIES BATTER STALIN LINE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 164, 14 July 1941, Page 7

INVADING ARMIES BATTER STALIN LINE

GERMAN BOASTS

Russians Deny Advances

By Enemy

United Press Association.—Copyright. Re C 1 p.m. LONDON, July 13. that h tho ß^ lin - news agency boasts has br„,Fi£ Cmg of the Stalin Line victo™™ B*l8* 1^ 3 complete German LeST r ussia > and claim s that that tk? d ls "nmediately threatened, Ukraine pupation of Kiev, in the lS'. IS imminent, the route to fu??w ls oP en ed up, there being no and tw natural or artificial barriers, the supply hnes are assured for aikh^ ?er dlvl sions' victory against certaint lsm become a beautiful

iJnto,£ en P n Hl S h Command comZ r q^lclaims that the centre of offensive has advanced "a miles east of Minsk. rJnn«^' Sl l nday Times" Moscow cor[s»ent says that while the battle tho rfX? a / ew nun dred miles away A tw£u s str angely calm and serene. fflf> m any men have left for the clvni J here *. s no shortage of male S*.noticeable on the streets. P " USSian man P° wer is

A^M deßpread SoTict Air Raids stiihK£2! co J, commun i f lue states that the b &™.Anting on Saturday in «£*W»M of Pskov, Viebsk and Epf ra t d * Volynsk - the German y toward Leningrad, Moscow imDortanT caused no t . cnan ge in the front. The Slnf ir u force llad attacked dromI me S, hamsed foi 'ces and aeroof trSL and . covered the operations wort* Presides bombing harbour Sutina & an sport at Constanza, uuna and Ploesti, in Rumania. on •fct,, 1 ?^ 01 * operations took place imS£ y e . nlsht '" states a Russian "I?! 0 !" 0311 Hi g h Command says: broken Y arin g onslaught we have alHmJii rOl i gh the Stalin Line at RumaE 31 ? Points ' German and haveth™ tr ?°P s f ™ Moldavia Wide H? 11 back the Russians on a River tw on t0 and beyond the A ?nri eSt Qi- G er man, HunGalka o~ Slovak troops from Russians ™ Persuing the fleeing "Ui' ffi; o North Least of tne Dniester °f the^?fnL re^ befo vr e Kiev - North a ßtronpl£ et Marshes we captured W*r &iepfr° f fortifi cations on the tr oOM U lri n ni^ e , central se ctor our *m. &»H ead Z 125 miles ea st of "isatton ffound^ und signs of disorga?any e n and dl stmtegration among in umts - Vitebsk ha! c »st SSLo. s since Friday, and & e advanHn£ ei P us ol,r tank units SSffirf i mva , rd Leningrad. **»anrt? ffe ' by destroying railhas pre- | lou nter-att a cks.'' arse ' scale B - vssian

The Rome radio says the Hungarians have broken the Russian resistance on the River Zbruch and, continuing their advance, have also occupied Kamenets Podolsk.

There is an unconfirmed report that the Germans have reached Narwa, about 100 miles west of Leningrad.

"War is Only Beginning"

The Berlin news agency stated yesterday: "Heavy rains in the past few days increased the difficulty of the terrain in the southern sector of the eastern front, but German troops made a considerable advance in this sector on Friday and repulsed Soviet tanks and infantry formations, which put up a hard fight. In the northern sector shock troops have been storming the fortifications of the Stalin Line."

The Moscow radio announced on Saturday that after halting the German panzer attack the Russian armies had begun counter-offen-sives. The Deputy-Commissar for Foreign Affairs, M. Lozovsky, declared: "The war is only now beginning."

The Ankara radio reports that 8,000,000 newly-mobilised Russian troops are moving to the front to meet the next big German offensive.

According to a Moscow communique guerilla detachments behind the German lines are incessantly attacking communications, destroying munitions and fuel trains, and exterminating whole groups and units of German troops.