FULL-SCALE WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 137, 12 June 1942, Page 3

FULL-SCALE WAR

ON THREE FRONTS IN RUSSIA

GERMAN OFFENSIVE

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) ; LONDON, June 11. A full-scale battle is now raging j on three sectors of the Russian front. Moscow radio says that tank, infantry, and air attacks have been launched by the Ger- j mans on the Leningrad, Kharkov, ' and Sebastopol fronts. The Germans began the Kharkov attack on Tuesday night with intense ferocity. Among the seven German attacks in one sector of the Sebastopol front which the Russians repulsed was one by an entire German division, and 1000 Germans were killed. Berlin radio declared the Russian counter-attacks at Sebastopol were remarkable, not only for the extensive use of mine-throwers and mechanised weapons, but also for the masses of human material thrown in. j NATURALLY STRONG. j Sebastopol is not only protected by I concrete defences and guns, but by hills, ravines, and rocky gorges. The Russian defences are comparable with the Metaxas Line in Greece, which held up the German advance for some time. A Moscow message, reporting that the German army and ,air force are steadily increasing their activity along the whole front, says that dispatches from the front indicate that the summer campaign is getting under way with the Germans at last rolling into large-scale action.