GLIDERS IN ACTION
Report From Black Sea Front LONDON, October 2. No important changes are reported today in Russia, where, a Moscow communique states, fighting has continued along the whole front. Following on a Moscow report yesterday that a number of German transport planes had been shot down on the Odessa front, it is announced in Moscow that planes of the Black Sea fleet have brought down three gliders. The locality is not stated. It is reported that the Germans are bringing up reinforcements in the Leningrad zone. The commander of the Soviet Baltic fleet in a statement on the defence of the city says: ‘‘We are not giving the enemy a moment’s peace. Our resistance is growing stronger, and our forces are increasing every day.”
Field-Marshal Mannerheim in an order of the day to the Finnish army describes the capture of Petrozavodsk as a glorious . victory.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 7, 3 October 1941, Page 7
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