STRONG ON ALL FRONTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1941, Page 9

STRONG ON ALL FRONTS

SOVIET RESISTANCE

BIG GAINS MADE AT ROSTOV

(Rec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, December 2. The.,,latest news from the. Eastern Front indicates that on all sectors the Russians are offering even stronger resistance. This resistance has been outstandingly successful in the Rostov sector, where as the result of the rout of yon Kleist's army the Russians have captured at least 188 tanks, 210 fieldguns, 306 machine-guns, 178 mortars, 4050 rifles, 871 motor vehicles,, and a large amount of other material. Dxiring the last seven days' fighting in the Rostov area, furthermore, 102 enemy planes have been destroyed. These details of captured war booty

follow immediately upon impressive figures and s damage and destruction inflicted on the enemy by the Red air. force during the battle all day long on November 30, which included' 216 tanSs and 32 field-guns.

ON THE MOSCOW FRONT.

. A Soviet unit in a sector on the Moscow front destroyed two tanks, 18 more armoured cars, 90 supply lorries, three mortar batteries, several field-guns, and two convoys of war material, and killed 1500 officers and men.

Another Soviet unit operating in a different -sector on the. central front, it is stated, in the past eight days, has occupied 15 ■ villages, captured three tanks and 16 mortars, and a large number of rifles and ammunition. . ' . . :"/'■ Soviet cavalry, in. a daring attack on the, central front, captured considerable war material.

SUCCESS IN NORTH-WEST.

Successes have also been gained by the Russians on the north-west front, according to the Moscow radio, which states: "On December 1, after three days of fierce fighting in the region of Lake 'S,' our troops reoccupied their former positions. On November 29, one of our units attacked the enemy in the region of Lake 'B* with the bayonet and hand • grenades, and wiped out the enemy from his positions. ,

"The complete figures show that our troops from November 26 to 28 annihilated about 2500 German officers and men, destroyed two tanks, 37 machineguns, several guns, three ammunition dumps' and many . pill-boxes, and silenced a number of hatteries."