GRIMLY HOLDING ON

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1941, Page 7

GRIMLY HOLDING ON

SOVIET FORCES

CRITICAL UKRAINE OUTLOOK

LObNDON, October 5. Today, the beginning of the sixteenth week of the war in Russia, finds the Russians still holding grimly to their, lines and fighting back strongly at several points. Russian counter-attacks have pushed the Germans back at new points on the central front and in the Leningrad and Odessa sectors. The Moscow radio says that Marshal Timoshenko's forces have driven the Germans back .15 miles in one sector of the central front, while in the Leningrad sector Russian troops advanced'l3 miles at some points. Marshal Budenny's forces in the southern Ukraine thave launched a strong counter-attack to relieve the German pressure on the Crimea. The Germans and Rumanians were ejected from 30 settlements. The "Isvestia" reports that the Russians recaptured a city railway june- \ tion in an important sector of the | ' Karelian Isthmus. More than 600 Finns! were killed. There was a fierce battle on the shore of Lake Ladoga, where the Finns have concentrated large forces in an effort to break through, to Leningrad. The Russians killed 1200 of the enemy. The-situation in the Ukraine is extremely critical for the Russians, according to the Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," who declares that tli'ey will have to retreat considerably further before they will be able finally to stabilise the front. The Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says that General Rund-. stedt has launched a vast new offensive, apparently aimed at the junction of Marshal Timoshenko's and Marshal Budenny's armies near Kursk, with the object of turning both Soviet flanks and then driving north to Moscow.