CHECKED AT ALL POINTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 28 October 1941, Page 5

CHECKED AT ALL POINTS

THRUST TOWARDS MOSCOW RED ARMY' REGAIN GROUND ENEMY' PRESSURE INCREASING ON SOUTHERN FRONT «Rec. 10.35 a.m.) London, Oct. 27. Dispatches from the Moscow front confirm the earlier report that the thrust towards Moscow was checked at all points says the British United Press Kuibyshev correspondent. The Red Army counterattacking regained some ground. Savage lighting continues in the direction of Malo-Y'aroslavetz and Mojaisk. The Moscow radio reports that the ertemy crossed the river Aro early in the morning but the Russians counterattacked and beat them back to the other side. German pressure on the southern front is still increasing and new forces were hurled in in an attempt to break through to the town of “S.” So far the attacks have met with stiff resistance. The Russians broke up a mass assault of 100 tanks on an important sector at the approaches to Rostov. The German News Agency to-day states what the Russians have freely admitted, namely, that every house in Moscow is being turned into a fortress, but adds that the military authorities have received information that the Russians have arranged for the destruction of the city, and “dynamite, straw and matches have already been issued to squads entrusted with the task.” Russian newspapers state that factories moved from Moscow are operating at present in the Ural mountains. A German communique says: “Despite unfavourable weather operations in the . -s: have further progressed. In an attempt to delay orr advance in the Donetz Basin the Russians counteratiackcd but they were thrown back with heavy casualties”—U.P.A.