PLANS FOR RESUMPTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1941, Page 8

PLANS FOR RESUMPTION

THE GERMAN DRIVE

RELIEF FOR EXHAUSTED UNITS

THE KIEV STRUGGLE

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) (Eec. 2 p.m.) LONDON, August 4. While interest in the RussoGerman struggle is centred at the moment on the Germans' new desperate onslaught in the Ukraine which aims at isolating Kiev and also Odessa, there is increasing evidence that the invaders are preparing for a third instalment of the drive against Leningrad and Moscow. The military correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper "Social Demokraten" says that arrangements have already been completed to relieve the exhausted German troops and reorganise the hard-tried units and also to overhaul mechanical material. The correspondent adds that despite the attacks against their communications the Russians have also benefited from the pause, but the Germans are claiming that the fresh Russian troops are of inferior quality. The fury, of the battle in the hills south-west of Kiev betokens the. importance which the German High Command attaches to the encirclement of the Ukrainian capital. According to dispatches from Helsinki, the Germans are also fiercely attempting to break the Soviet resistance on the Leningrad road, east of Lake Peipus, while the Finns are still trying to force a way between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega. German statements continue to describe how the Soviet forces are being increasingly compressed by an iron ring, but even German sources testify to the Russians' curious capacity for fighting for weeks on end after being theoretically obliterated.