SOVIET NAVY'S WORK
Toll of the Enemy
(Stec. riOon.) RUGBY, Feb. 16. Moscow radio states that since the start of the war the Soviet navy has sunk 81 enemy warships and 216 auxiliary ships. In the Barents Sea two destroyers and four submarines have been sunk. One Soviet submarine sank seven enemy ships totalling 35,800 tons. In the Baltic Sea 65 enemy transports and 12 submarines have been sunk. , The Soviet navy, it is stated, is playing an important part in the defence of Leningrad and Sebastopol, and by constant raids has inflicted heavy losses on the enemy in man-power and weapons, and has destroyed a great number of enemy fortifications. Important objectives in Rumania have' also been shelled.—-8.0.W.
scores of populated points, including twelve in ten houfs. The "retreating Germans successively abandoned first cannon, then lorries, staff cars, and rifles. ■ . X.-- •'■' This latest spectacular Russian progress is believed to be designed .to de-
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 40, 17 February 1942, Page 5
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