GERMANS PRESS HARD

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 137, 12 June 1942, Page 5

GERMANS PRESS HARD

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LONDON, June 11. ■ A dispatch from Ankara to Vichy says that German troops from the Crimea are reported to have landed on the Tainan Peninsula, on the Caucasian side of the Kerch Straits. The Germans are attacking regardless of losses. They have very strong forces massed for the Crimean prong of the three-prong-ed fork with which they are believed to be preparing to strike eastward through the Kerch Peninsula, through the Donets Basin, and through Kursk, north of Kharkov. Military quarters in Ankara say that 200 German trains of 40 carriages each, containing mostly artillery, motor-tor-pedo-boats, and submarine parts have passed through Yugoslavia in the past four weeks en route to the Black Sea. Barges, including some which are capable of carrying several thousand men. are being increasingly concentrated south of the Danube mouth These moves aro interpreted .-"<s mean-, ing thfil 'the Germans hoo" :.o take Sebaslop:;l and ihen devekrj extensive f.ea transport from the Piii^umiuii port:-. SLIGHT ADVANCE M/YDfc. The latest reports from Moscow say that in general the. battle is, raging where it started five 4ays ago, except

for one place where the Germans have made a slight advance in the direction of the two heights after three days' fighting.

The Red Fleet still controls the Crimean coast and has landed several cargoes of ammunition at Sebastopol since the new attacks began.

There is no evidence that the German attacks reported yesterday in. the Valdai Hills indicate anything like a general offensive in that region, where the Russians appear to bo maintaining the initiative.

Moscow radio stated that in a threeday battle on the north-western (Leningrad) front the Germans, in repeated attempts to force an important river, lost 1500 men killed and wounded, and also 17 tanks. Some Germans wore Red Army uniforms.