HEAVY RAIN FILLS OVER RUSSIAN FRONT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 228, 26 September 1941, Page 7

HEAVY RAIN FILLS OVER RUSSIAN FRONT

FEROCIOUS FIGHTING Soviet Retains Hold On Besieged Cities Rec. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 25. Heavy rain is falling on most of tne Russian front. Despite the German forecast that Leningrad, also Odessa, would fall within a few days, uie defenders of Leningrad have recaptured several fortified points and «eia them against all attacks by panzer units and infantry. The Vichy news agency reports inat Russian warships continue to "I 10 the Gulf of Finland and heavily shell German positions in the vicinity of Leningrad. Squadrons of British planes are fifing the Russian Air Force to nutlet serious losses on the Germans.

rtJL F m communique states that thf i ? attempts to break out by « s } of tne enemy's forces j . to the eastwards of Kiev Sh» e r> ? with bloody losses, ine Russian Commander-in-Chief on rl® sout h-west front, General Kirponos, was killed, together with his twU? 1s ? the staffs of the Fifth and Twenty-first Armies.

thsLMoscow Tass Agency says rrrrii.ii ssa ? s being subjected to hsrrfli i artillery and aerial bomMrcunent, but the defenders are holdM* The Rumanians have su*wea further heavy losses. in iSsi 1 ? 1 ™ tanlc column attempting uJltote behind the Russian® ine dpfiaf Flag met a crushldfl rif ' losing 36 tanks and over German officers and men killed. Budenny's troops are hitum sever al points in the armvfl,' lle the left wing of his the c°oS lent aCtiVity near the h M^ a 4, rm y regular troops and heavv Guard continue to deal on So nS a ? ams t the Rumanians divi«inni sa front - Two Rumanian sttemntl ♦ Were routed during tions wm back strategic posifrom which they were ejected. tiorL° S »™ r ! ports that four expediMinsk f ?. uerilla troops in the gueriiiao ® completely. The killed. 25(>n n area m September 400 lnrrfi? Germans and captured eight firm Another unit blew up succesßffnl? *» m V nit^on depots, also Thaf d attacked supply columns. Crimean fltv, n ra(lio stated that the vfili m * us was heavily raided, Th- *Y nt e xplosions an d fires. c kimed fh«? a £j an Arm -V Command troons havf German and Hungarian onebf thp e J oac 'f led the outskirts of towns in lm Portant industrial in the Donetz Basin.