RUSSIAN FRONTS

Grey River Argus, 28 April 1942, Page 5

RUSSIAN FRONTS

NORTHERN ACTIVITY Other Sectors Quieter (Rec. 8.0). LONDON, April 26. “The Times” Stockholm correspondent says:— According to reports reaching Helsinki, fighting flared up in the' last few days on the Salla front, in Finland. The German and Finnish forces there are still within the 1939 frontier of Finland. The troops on the Salla front had virtually reached a standstill since August. The Finns declare that the resumption of fighting is due to Russian initiative. “The position in ithe Leningrad area, apparently, is unchanged, except for brisk patrol activity on the Karelian Isthmus, and there are German bombing operations on the Svir front. “The Germans now are busy making roads from Leningrad to White Russia. “Guerrilla raids, air reconnaissance, and bombing are the only other activities along the front (adds the correspondent). It is not clear which side is likely to have air superiority in the Spring, but certainly the Germans have not got it at the moment. A Tass Agency message from Ankara stated mass arrests were occurring in the Bulgarian port of Varna. Five thousand “unreliable” persons were detained in the first half of April alone, according to travellers from Bulgaria.

Murmansk Convoy EVADES LONG ENEMY attack.

(Rec. 8.0). MONTREAL, April 25. On arrival at a North Atlantic porf, the survivors of a torpedoed United Nations’ freighter revealed that German submarines and bomoers hammered for four days at a convoy of empty ships, which was homebound, after unloading war supplies for the Russians at Murmansk. The bombers failed to hit any of the ships. A British escort vessel, the Froac, probably sank one submarine. a LONDON, April 26. The Russian spokesman (M. Lozovsky) at a Press conference revealed that the 1,900,000 reserves who were recently called up by the Germans included 900,000 in two new classes, comprising youths aged 17 to 18, and also 500,000 from each of the vassal, countries, and from vital German industries. He said the German people were unable to forget Goering’s boast that no enemy aircraft would fly over German territory. The German people were now asking, after raids such as those on Luebeck: “Why did he lie?”

GERMAN U-BOAT SUNK IN BARENTS SEA. (Rec. 11.45) RUGBY, April 27. A Soviet communique ■ announces that Russian naval units sank an enemy U-boat in the Barents Sea. On Saturday, twenty-one German planes were destroyed, the Russians losing ten.