BATTEL RACING IN VAST TRIANGLE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 170, 21 July 1941, Page 7

BATTEL RACING IN VAST TRIANGLE

DRIVE OiV MOSCOW

Hitler p a u s i„ P i an In First Four Weeks

Halted Press Association.—Copyright. Kec -1 p.m. LONDON, July 20. »• Russian-German war has ottered its fifth week with the three which the blitzkrieg was Moscow and Ukraine— still in Russian hands. , e . Annans have, however, eved considerable gains, but the ■ M * realistic observers, in review--2 the course of the war, conclude ~ *" e Germans have failed to fir*? * an( * objective for the ™t time during the present European war.

Hitler has failed after four . . to Sain any of his three objTj ® ft is considered in London » ire are rea sonable grounds optimism regarding the outcome «the struggle. tj3® ktest communiques show an« v man s, failing to achieve and T rea k through to Leningrad ne Ukraine, have reverted on taJWni front to a policy of and w? 8 masses of troops, tanks iloscavV? . blast .a path to ground io « i e ir nmediate battleHno V v ast tr iangle with a 200ao a f en Polotsk and Stnolensk and the apex

Invaders Claim Succcsses ®iniauA a llt^ noon , German com*£3lJX2" tha t operations in iodine tn glon ar , e progressing further SiJ£LP tan and claims that the Sfl se f have been scored juoanianiif front. German and r ,i es fr° m Bessarabia aiem, "n "? 1 tne pursuit of the bank of the *nce. tjA-*® l " breaking the resisttircltd i*r,?f- rate attempts by entC,7a 8ia n troops to break the tag* JTC a number of points on '"toy auftSLfi re frustrated. The Buffered heavy losses. Stir" the Moscow "Red "ft^ivei2fiL. troo P s in a counterSf n *ined a city which is inscribed as "S." &an e r g that superior s*K>re attaofc« In disorder frb. ThTi? n front and both r e| nW Lsii ssians Pursued the J* «Bd bav^^l with artillery agK"* 4 charges. The Gera considerable cars. nnon » tanks and arm-