NEWS BLANKETED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24085, 2 October 1941, Page 9

NEWS BLANKETED

BOTH SIDES SILENT GERMANS BEING HELD ONSLAUGHT ON CRIMEA LONDON. Oct. 1 Reports from the eastern front indicate that the Russians are holding the Germans in all sectors, and the battle is continuing along the whole front. Silence in the news sense largely covers tremendous commotion between the Gomel region and the Crimea, while the Murmansk and Karelian fronts are similarly blanketed. An American correspondent in Berlin reports that a Wilhelmstrasse commentator warned that there will be little news from the eastern front for the next few days "for certain reasons." He added that certain importance can be attached to German press statements that the German campaign on the eastern front will run into the winter. Black Sea Offensive News is anxiously awaited respecting Stockholm reports to the effect that the Germans have launched a big panzer offensive from Kalanchak, on the Black Sea, which will be followed up imminently by a great airborne invasion of the Crimea. It is known that tha Russians have been warned regarding the German plans, and are fully prepared to resist the onslaught. A neutral source states that the Crimea will be defended to the death in order to keep open the possibilities of the British landing against the German flank and rear once von Rundstedt's amies have been sufficiently bled and spreadeagled. Marshal Timoshenko's armies in the central front again attacked the enemy on Sunday night, recapturing more villages, while the Leningrad defenders still keep the Germans at an appreciable distance from the city. Importance Widening ® Stockholm correspondent wys Timoshenko's counter-blows on the central front show a tendency to become more than locally important, but *tis still advisable not to over-estimate h] s power, and intentions. Another local success on the central r .ont tas been scored by the forces 0 ifarshal Timoshenko. Two enemy regiments were routed, losing 1800 men n r a considerable quantitv of equipment. 11 The, Soviet newspaper Pravda states: ussian troops recaptured a number J a | es | n the Leningrad sector." i ra dio admitted Russian Lai- 1 e i"" a^ac^s on Monday between " e Ladoga and Lake Onega, also on fin! part of the front, where hpr <* battles were fought.

GERMAN AIR LOSSES

second r.a.f. squadron Th fi is . LONDON. Oct. 1 down «*; USSlans c ' a ' rn that they shot losiiifr 97 aeroplanes on Sunday, T|™ t' ot their own. Royal A°' SCOM p ra( l' 0 said that a second °PerahV*„ lr rce squadron is now '""ction w'+t li 6 front in conthe ZZ Soviet Air Force. In °Perati n£ r r <) fi U p ere the MjUa<ll ' on is s ' 1Q t down " ~/e nna" aeroplanes were Bri tis'n got*]? 1 n V V ° days < whiie the ?? e -Jtossian r!u° nly one Britisli a,ld l We operations. 3 " 0 Uer ° lost durin S