REPORTS FROM BOTH SIDES
(Rec. 10 a.m.) LONDON, August 18
A Berlin communique states: "The. Luftwaffe reports new and considerable successes on the eastern front. Our bombers, dive-bombers, and fighter formations, from Novgorod to the Black Sea, dealt heavy blows on the enemy and hit armament factories, Industrial works, aerodromes, and dispersed troop concentrations, and destroyed railways and transport trains. Also, in the area east of Lake £lmen. they bombed many industrial / plants and. railways, in addition to armament works. During air engagements south of Lake Ilmen they shot down 13 planes and also attacked aerodromes in the Novgorod area and destroyed 52 planes on the ground."
A Mbscow news agency report says that guerrilla detachments in the rear of the Finnish and German troops in the past few days have blown up eignt bridges, engineered eleven train crashes, destroyed 45 planes and 18 tanks, and killed 25 officers and 480 men.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 7
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