NEW BATTLE
THE SEBASTOPOL BASE
GERMANS REPELLED
LONDON, June 7. A Moscow communique gives the first official news that a new battle has been joined for the vital base of Sebastopoi. Fighting has been going on for three days, and stubborn encounters with the German attackers are reported. Moscow says that the enemy is being repelled with heavy losses,
There has been much air activity around Sebastopoi since the beginning of the month, when the Luftwaffe launched a new offensive against this Tobruk of the Black Sea. An observer says that the Germans started by sending over single planes, but
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 133, 8 June 1942, Page 5
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100NEW BATTLE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 133, 8 June 1942, Page 5
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