FURTHER RUSSIAN REPORT
OPERATIONS ON CENTRAL FRONT 4000 ENEMY KILLED OR WOUNDED f (Rec., 11 a.m.) Rugby, Oct.. 12. |: A supplementary Russian com-,;
munique states: “In one sector on the 'central front our troops operating against big enemy units inflicted heavy | loss on the enqmy. During a four-day i battle 4000 enemy troops were killed or | wounded. Eighty enemy tanks were destroyed. In one sector on the northwest front the enemy tried to break through our lines of defence and threw into the battle three regiments. In fierce fighting 2200 enemy officers and men were killed. Uncompleted figures show our troops captured 6 guns, 30 machine-guns. 5 anti-tank guns and a large quantity of rifles and ammunition. Artillery and our Baltic navy destroyed two long-range guns of different calibre and three mortar batteries.’—B.O.W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 13 October 1941, Page 5
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