IF BREACH IS MADE

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

IF BREACH IS MADE

THE CRIMEAN DEFENCES

SERIOUS CHANGE IN BATTLE

(Rec. 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 30. ; Authoritative military quarters in London point out that so far there is no confirmation or denial from the Soviet side of. the German claim to have broken through the Crimean defences. If the claim should prove correct, however, it would mean that the Germans would have penetrated through the Perekop Isthmus into the Crimea proper, and the whole position of the battle would have changed and become more serious, since the Germans would, be ; able vto^ fight on a much wider front. '

vAt Rostov the Germans appear to Have made very little progress.

The only new development on the Moscow front, is the reported German thrust from Orel towards Tula, though it is not known how far the advance has progressed.

A report from Kuibyshev gives news of fighting in Kalinin; For thirteen days this strategically important town north-west of Moscow has been contested between German and Russian troops,", and the report states that violent street fighting continues.

According to the "Pravda," the Germans have brought up a complete army, corps, with tanks, artillery, trench and aircraft, but the Russians are, not only holding their own but are counter-attacking, especially in one suburb where the enemy captured a concrete defence structure and a grain elevator.—B.O.W.