NORTH-EAST OF RIGA
HEAVY FIGHTING RAGES
RUGBY, September 30. The Red Army is grimly battering down the German defences north-east of Riga, the capital of Latvia, in some of the heaviest fighting ever seen on the Soviet-German front, writes a Moscow correspondent.
Large German forces concentrated in the Riga zone are enveloped by Soviet troops on three sides, with one narrow corridor* open in the west. Through this, the enemy is continuously drawing up reserves, as Riga is vital to the defence of East Prussia..
The Germans in the Riga zone are savagely defending every mile, ambushing and mining" forest roads, while hundreds of German snipers perched in trees allow Soviet troops to go past and then shoot them in the backs.
Picked Soviet troops, with mortars and light guns, are infiltrating deep into the "enemy's defences, wiping out ambushes and strong-points. German artillery and tommy-gunners desperately defending marshy terrain near the terminus of the Pskov-Riga highway are being mercilessly strafed by Stormoviks and pounded by mobile guns.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 80, 2 October 1944, Page 5
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