SMALL ENEMY GAINS
SITUATION VERY TENSE
(]Jy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 12. Despite the hourly increasing German pressure, Sebastopol continues courageously to hold out. The Russians are inflicting terrific losses as the" battle sways back and forth, with the Germans making desperate efforts to consolidate the small gains which the "Red Star" admits they have made. The paper adds: "The situation in a ' number of sectors is extremely tense. It will need great staunchness, the exertion of every effort, and the mobilisation of all available means to throw the enemy back." The latest news from Sebastopol reveals that the Germans yesterday, made a major effort to break thi'ough in two sectors. Russian naval infantry in one sector were subjected to a twohour raid, but they met the enemy with 'such concentrated artillery, mortar, and rifle fire that the powerful German force was checked, after which a Russian counter-attack rolled it back. The Germans suffered substantial casualties. ' The Germans in another sector employed numerous tanks in,an-effort '.o crash, through the Russian line. Accurate Russian artillexy fire destroyed 25 tanks. The Russians then counter-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 138, 13 June 1942, Page 5
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185SMALL ENEMY GAINS Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 138, 13 June 1942, Page 5
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