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Evening Star, Issue 24005, 2 October 1941, Page 12

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MISSING VESSEL SIGHTED. The motor (ship Foxton, which is several days overdue at Wanganui, was sighted this morning eight miles off Horowhemia. She is expected to roach Wanganui tonight.—Press Association. FLOODS AT KARORI. The low-lying parts of the Karori district were Hooded as the result of torrential rain during the morning. The water reached a number of houses preventing the residents leaving or entering. The tram tunnel is blocked by a slip, and the culverts proved entirely inadequate to take the rush of water.—Press Association. DEFIANT LENINGRAD. LONDON, October I.—Von Leeb’s struggle near Leningrad continues to strew the approaches of the great defiant city with German dead. ‘ The Times ’ Stockholm correspondent declares that the Russians have been successful, not only at Strelna, but in other parts of the Leningrad l front. The Russians, indeed, have practically monopolised the initiative in the past few days, particularly' in the Kolpino district. German and Finnish sources declare that hundreds of heavy Russian tanks drove a deep wedge into the German positions in the Kolpino area, and reports give tho impression that they succeeded in making contact witli outside Russian forces, roughly along the railway to Moscow. A Ilcnsinki message says the Germans’ posi-

tion in this district Ims become serious, especially because all the available German infantry is engaged in fierce fighting at other points on the Leningrad front, also because the Russian Air Force has recently been very active, and the fiercest air battles are being fought above and around the main battlefield. Other enemy reports express surprise at the speed and daring of the Russian tanks, adding that after admittedly important progress they were now checked in extensive German minefields, although it is scarcely likely that the Germans would mine the area extensively unless they feared being forced on the defensive.