KIEV SAID TO BE STRONGLY DEFENDED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 171, 22 July 1941, Page 7

KIEV SAID TO BE STRONGLY DEFENDED

HERMAN REPORT

Difficulties Of Terrain i Slow Progress

Bee. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, July 21. & 2S£? correspondent of the tune» ' Neue Zuercher Zeif r that he received the '"formation from a high S 1 .raihtary source:—"Geronerato flank is expected to orooT»L^? re successfully. Its slow ? s b® en du e to stubborn n Bess arabia. German S&l n ? w ,r eached some points Russiai i ut aII efforts to break the A - disorganise the \ n the Ukraine have been Kiev is still strongly success has been in tinn w zone > where penetraJ^ oscow has considerably wing of the Gersrtet . Fui nish armies, despite tattoL * orts ' are still behind expecthe terrairf 10 natural difficulties of

"AcwfrH in^ orr 5 sponden t continues: report JS ? n unimpeachable tbedprrno!? front > the delay to o?®nsive is chiefly due to country aS n? «!"• defending th e fare t> , their offensive waradapted itLi?f Army has quickly Watfarp German mechanised off mii as oft , en succeeded in Wvance I l ed divisions from Hon has Moreover, a situaBotcleararisen when it was «j t , who had surrounded whom. that RusAia o^* 11 happened at nights J^, nks J?,?. ve driven into fusion T P ,S general conthe heavy losses." A r!f Tlßh Gernian Claims >rmanßnm a «°. mmun^ ue states: troong aro n and Hungarian the ® the beaten foe gregs sector. Further proseveral enr?r,JL? in oth er fronts, destroyed '' enemy groups were that th| r p?,o . new f agency claims division, Mohileff, fierce on Saturday last after Arable jf^u ce and despite unfavthe northori German troops in Sec . tor ' it is claimed, divigjons tnr an ,„ of five Russian division »v, ng A German circled t, ce Ptral sector enThe Russian detachments. Jwims ne^ s agency also ?°OPB faniL nnish and German fcruflL the Russian Positions near Salla. }°7 rar i ds Leningrad, how>fcJ?n« S <lZ ha Y e been halted. Utopia J?® indication how much of Brnenn K, mans have occupied, ? y • more desperate Cation } Leningrad await confWwiia. their position In

[Berlin radio announced that Major-General Lancelle, Storm Troop leader, was killed in action comf?ont nS 3 vision on the eastern Moscow radio stated that a Bulgarian destroyer collided with a German submarine near Varna. The submarine sank, and the crew were drowned. The Russian Cabinet has appointed four more vice-commissars of deJ° , ass * s _t Stalin, namely, Shadenko, for the political side of the army, Lieutenant-General Fodorenko, for tanks, Lieutenant-General Jigare for the air force, and Lieu-tenant-General Knrulieff, for sudplies. 1 BETWEEN TWO FIRES Germans Rush Planes From East To Bomb Britain HEAVIER ATTACKS FORECAST

Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, July 21. „ The Berlin correspondent of the Gothenburg "Posten," quoting informed quarters, says that many of the best German planes have been removed from the Russian front westwards. Increased activity against Britain is expected. It is also learned that America's intervention is necessitating Germany to allocate more planes for the Battle of the Atlantic. I A statement from Moscow to-day denies the reports that there was an air raid on the city.

BELGRADE SABOTAGE 28 Executed After Cutting Of Electric Cable NAZI CHIEF IN PLANE CRASH Rec. 11 a.m. ZURICH, July 21. A message from Belgrade, via Budapest, says that a group of Communists destroyed the electric cables in the city on Friday and entirely deprived Belgrade of its electricity supply, which has not yet been restored. Twenty-eight persons were sentenced to death for complicity and were shot. General Shroeder, town commander, 24 hours after the executions, was seriously injured in an aeroplane accident, the cause of which is unknown.