RUSSIAN FRONTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 June 1942, Page 5

RUSSIAN FRONTS

AERIAL ACTIVITY. LONDON, June 4. There is still no news of any major development in Russia. To-day’s Soviet mid-day communique says merely that no important changes occurred on the front during the night. While the Royal Air Force is bombing the Germans in Western Europe, the Russians are intensifying their air attacks on the _ Germans from Kharkov to the Sea of Azov. Reuter’s correspondent in Moscow says that air battles are taking place over the whole of the southern front. On various fronts large numbers of tanks and motor vehicles have been destroyed or damaged. Soviet airmen have also blown up an ammunition dump, damaged a ship, sunk two torpedo boats, and bombed two transports. An important aerodrome in the southern sector has been bombed and in addition the Soviet Air Force has given protection to the Russian ground forces. Berlin, as usual, is making fantastic claims of Russian air losses. GERMAN DEVICE June 3. Colonel Denisov, of the Red Air Force, in an article in the “Soviet War News’’ has described a device whereby the Germans are protecting their bombers from attack from the rear. The German bombers, when attacked, drop small time-bombs, which are attached to miniature parachutes. The bombs are swept up, by the air current, behind the tail of the bomber.

LOCAL CLASHES.

RUGBY, June 4

A Moscow message says: Fierce local clashes are reported from all sectors on the front, while both sides are massing their reserves for the forthcoming struggle. The defenders of Sebastopol have dislodged the Germans from tvyo lines of trenches in one sector, while in the Black Sea the Red Fleet air arm continues to raid enemy aerodromes.

JAPANESE ATTITUDE

(Reed. 12.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 4. The Tokio official radio to-day quoted a diplomatic review asserting that Japan in conforming to the spirit of the neutrality pact with Russia, nevertheless, as Germany’s ally, desires the complete success of the German forces against Russia.