SOVIET ADMISSION
NIKOLAIEV AND KRIVOYROG
UKRAINE BATTLE
LONDON. August 17,
The midnight Moscow communique admits the loss of the Black Sea port of NikoJaiev, and claims that the dockyards were blown up before the Russian troops left.
The communique also says that Russian troops evacuated the industrial town of Krivoy-Rog after stubborn fighting.
In the Black Sea, Russian submarines sank two large Rumanian
transports.
Renter's correspondent in Moscow says the impression in the Russian capital is that the German drive in the Ukraine is slowing down. Marshal Budenny's army, which, the communique says, has been beaten only by the German propagandists, is furiously resisting the German onslaughts and wreaking havoc behind the German mobile columns.
In the air, the communique says, 19 German planes were shot down for the loss of 12 Russian machines.
In the central sector the Germans, who fear Russian counter-attacks, are feverishly digging in among the ruins of Smolensk. An effort to find quislings in the occupied territory has failed, and the Soviet spokesman says that1 there is not a single occupied regioif without its guerrilla detachments.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 8
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