LATE MESSAGE

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 June 1943, Page 3

LATE MESSAGE

RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN.

RUGBY, June 13.

A Soviet special communique states: On Saturday night, large "ormations of long-range aircraft attacked the enemy-held railway junction of Gomel and Bransk and ’he railway station of Karachev. Big concentrations of planes and ammunition dumps were effectively bombed. Two Soviet aircraft are missing.

A supplement to the ordinary Soviet ocmmunique states during the week June 6 to 12, inclusive, 548 German planes were destroyed, either in aerial combat, on aerodromes or by anti-aircraft. In addilion, large numbers have been destroyed on aerodromes during raids by large forces attacking at night. In the same period, 153 Soviet planes were lost. In the Barents Sea, one enemy transport and two cutters were sunk. In the Black Sea one enemy transport was sunk.

West of Rostov, the Germans opened several attacks but each time were met by devastating fire. In one sector, the enemy succeeded in pushing hack the Soviet front line troops but a counter-attack restored the situation. Another report states the defenders at Leningrad continue to inflict losses on the enemy. Stormovicks wrecked a train and damaged trucks. Airmen of the Baltic Navy sunk an enemy patrol cutter and damaged .another.