GERMAN FURY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20628, 2 December 1941, Page 9

GERMAN FURY

CENTRAL FRONT 70 DIVISIONS RUSSIAN RESISTANCE CONSTANT COUNTERS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 3 p.m. RUGBY, Nov. 30. An account of the fierce fighting on the central Russian front was broadcast by the Kuibyshev radio, which stated that the Germans concentrated 70 divisions and the fighting was continuing without interruption. “In spite of the enemy’s numerical superiority the Russian troops are constantly counter-attacking and inflicting heavy losses,” continued the Soviet broadcast. “Particularly heavy and fierce fighting is going on in the Klin sector, at some points of which the enemy succeeded in pressing back the Russians, but he is in fact advancing over the bodies of his soldiers. “In two days of sanguinary fighting for one town the Germans lost more than 2000 men, 60 tanks and 12 guns. “In the. Volokalamsk sector many attacks were repulsed, but in one sector near a certain town the Russians retreated to new positions. In the Mojaisk sector enemy infantry attacks were also repulsed. There was strong artillery activity in the Maloyaroslavets sector, where the Germans iost heavily through the Russians shelling infantry concentrations. In the Stalinogorsk sector the Germans succeeded in advancing to a certain village, but in another part of this sector the Russians took a village.”