MOSCOW AND CRIMEA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1941, Page 6

MOSCOW AND CRIMEA

INCREASED GERMAN PRESSURE

FURIOUS FIGHTING

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.<Rec. 2 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 30. With : |he fighting flaring up Around Leningrad and also at some points iii the -more northern sectors, the pressure against the Russian armies on all fronts is perhaps r- more widespread now than at any .time since Hitler's announcement 'ion October 3 of new '-.'gigantic ; j':v -■'.VvL* ''' ■

.The Stockholm® correspondent of "The Times?'-emphasises that the activity against Moscow and the Crimea has been developing in the past few

days into major Axis offensives, while the efforts against Rostov and the • Donets Basin continue without abatement.

While the Germans keep the Russians engaged scarcely less heavily than before in the Kalinin and Volokolamsk regions and adopt defensive instead of offensive tactics abound Mojaisk and Malo Yaroslavets, they are developing an assault with intense fury against the opposite wing of Moscow's defences, where they are thrusting on a large gcalevih the direction of Tula, despite tough resistance, and heavy casualties. The Russians admit that this new German offensive is progressing.