Countless Hordes Batter At Moscow

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 281, 27 November 1941, Page 7

Countless Hordes Batter At Moscow

CRITICAL STAGE

Germans Pay Dearly In Blood And Material For Gains

(United Press Association.—Copyright.—Rec. 1 p.m.)

LONDON. November 26.

.. war ' n Russia iis now at a most critical stage on the Moscow front, where the Germans continue furiously to hurl forces in undiminished numbers against the approaches to the capital, says The Times Stockholm correspondent.

Paying heavily in blood and material - for every yard captured, they are still slowly progressing, particularly along the railway to Moscow through Klin. The exact position cannot be determined at present, but it is clear that the Russians so far nave toiled the German plan to envelop Moscow—at least die northern half of the Moscow front.

Fighting in the Klin area, 42 miles north-west of Moscow has been raging for nearly a week on or near the railway and the main road to Moscow. The next important thoroughfare which the would-be besiegers must encounter is the Moscow-Volga Canal, about 20 miles away Presumably the fighting rone has not approached this appreciably, as neither side has yet mentioned

r The pos,tK)n f n the Tula wing of the Moscow front is critical, as German forces from the direction of Kursk are striking hard to get round to the eastward in a wide sweep. This movement, which js facilitated by hard ground, has been long prepared, forcements are believed to have been brought up. even from the area northward of Kharkov.