ATTACK CONTINUES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1942, Page 5

ATTACK CONTINUES

LONDON, June 9. The third German offensive against Sehastopoi has failed so far to take a single inch of ground from its Russian defenders. Intact after five days of continuous assault the Russians have improved their positions in some sectors of the front Moscow reports that the Germans have thrown more tanks, artillery, and planes into the offensive, regardless of cost. Tl^y - concentrated considerable forces on the approaches to the city, including many divisions of infantry, great numbers of tanks, and a particularly large force pf planes, which have been carryins: out incessant bombing raids. '.'■"■' s ' .

A Kussia* observer.^ thattle, Germans succeeded in making a wedge in the Russian positions at a single point, but that they were thrown back to their after a terrific counter-attack by the Soviet forces. Allfl» «» * *™« are now «ttered with enemy corpses smashed tanks «d guns, but the Germans ye still bringing «n fresh reserves to continue the attacTc., The observer recalls that during the two previous offensives on Sebastopol last year the Germans lost 45,000. men. Tens of tiaousands oJ enemy troops have since been killed or wounded in repeated unsuccessful attempts to capture this great naval base. ' ~