NORTHERN FRONTS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 47, 19 November 1941, Page 7

NORTHERN FRONTS

Russians Still Held From

Tikhvin

LONDON, November 17.

The correspondent of “The Times” on the German frontier says that the Russians attach the utmost importance to their recapturing. Tikhvin, 100 miles east of Leningrad, in order to reopen land communications between Leningrad and Moscow,. but the German grip on Tikhvin has been unbreakable.

However, news reaching London shows that Leningrad is not completely surrounded and can still communicate with the rest of Russia. In the north of Finland all major operations are reported to .have ceased because of intense cold.

A war correspondent of the “Pravda” on the Karelian front describes an operation by picked German troops a fortnight ago in the Kestenga area when they attempted to cut the important railway, drive a wedge between the Russian units, and disrupt the Russian communications, and thus improve their position in the Murmansk area.

The enemy’s furious attack was met with such tenacity and valour that in the first ten days of fighting the enemy lost about 4000 in killed. The Soviet troops then attacked the German flank, advanced several miles, and captured a number of important localities,- and left hundreds of enemy killed and wounded lying on the snow-covered ground. Thereafter the enemy failed to move a step forward.