Fuhrer’s Victory Parade Deferred

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 265, 7 November 1941, Page 5

Fuhrer’s Victory Parade Deferred

advance slowed down BY MOSCOW’S DEFENDERS

LONDON, Nov. 5. Hitler’» deeire to hold a “victory parade in Moscow’s Red Square on

November 7, the 24th anniversary of the Russian revolution, is not likely to be realised despite his heavy payments in men and material, says the 'Stockholm correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. After three days of some of the fiercest fighting of the war, his armies are still held up at the defences covering the capital. At the nearest point they are about. 60 miles from Moscow. 1 According to the Moscow radio, the

Russian forces are dealing the enemy heavy blows in the Tula sector, south of Moscow, where huge losses have compelled the Germans to give up their attacks.

The German and Rumanian forces in the Crimea have reached a point 20 miles northward of Sebastopol, where savage fighting is proceeding in hilly country under appalling weather conditions, the correspondent adds. The German troops in the Eastern Crimea have been halted by the defences of the Kerch Peninsula behind Theodosia, which the Germans claimed to nave captured, but in which street fighting is still raging. The Russians’ only aim in the Crimea is to defend the southwestern and south-eastern corners, and they have concentrated all their forces in these areas.

The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent says that the German advance in the Eastern Ukraine is slowing down more and moro as the Russian resistance stiffens under Marshal Timoshenko’s strong organising hand. German and Italian shock troops are still held up in t.he hills before the industrial keypoint of Voroshilovgrad. The Moscow radio to-night declared that Red Army units continued to advance in a sector of tho Donetz region, and that the Germans were leaving behind heaps of dead and many guns. Everywhere in the Donetz Basin, the Germans were suffering heavily, the radio added.

In Mondays air-raid on Danzig, tho Russians dropped their heaviest bombs, reports the Stockholm correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Among the targets were a German submarine training school and wharves. The Russians also 'bombed the battleship Tirpitz, which arrived from Kiel last week.