IN BITTER COLD

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24125, 18 November 1941, Page 7

IN BITTER COLD

BATTLE FOR CRIMEA ; CLAIMS BY BERLIN ATTACKS ON SEBASTOPOL IRecri. 12.53 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 17 " Fighting in 27 degrees of frost, the Germans are sacrificing thousands in their attempts to storm the Crimean defences, but apart from their own claim to have captured one fort at Sebastopol there is no indication of progress. M. Lozovsky, Soviet spokesman, said Russian guerillas were particularly strong in the Crimea, and units of the regular army were also fighting behind the German lines. A German communique says the German troops attacking Sebastopol "took a strongly reinforced and stoutly defended fort. The Luftwaffe continues to attack Sebastopol and Kerch. The Berlin radio'claims that German ihfantry have fought their way into the streets of Kerch and are now overcoming the last of the Russian resistance. There is no confirmation in London of Berlin's claim that German forces are fighting in the streets of Kerch. A Moscow bulletin stated that in three days' fighting in the Volokalamsk ■area, west of Moscow, the Russians routed four infantry battalions and destroyed a large number of tanks, heavy guns and other war material, a part from 48 enemy aeroplanes and laden lorries destroyed in 10 days the Moscow front.

FINNS' CAMPAIGN Helsinki claims advance LONDON, Nov. 16 ;' A message from Helsinki claims that the Finns have advanced 90 miles florth f rom Petrozavodsk, taking an important strategic road junction at -Juustjaervi. -The Swedish newspaper Svenska announced that Finnish troops will begin demobilisation shortly, of older men are being sent home.

tu • has become fiercer on the.Finnish front, particularly in Rusheld re^a > the attacks are being

WORKERS' FEAT SOCIAL ORDER FOR RUSSIA ' . LONDON. Not. 17 _ -British workers have risen to the filfff 1011 anc * ' n f° ur days have ful•'W an order for special ammunition . £ Russia which would normally have it three weeks. The order came 'ift 1011 before the workers were a^er a day's work. They tw/l ° n w^re re P' ace d by other T}> f ra w^en "they were exhausted. -a* I 3 ? l tory worked "day and night untij job was done.

£589,000,000 FOR WAR Weed. 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 16 , grand total achieved in the • ve; ! 1 " °f the war savings cain.foj?' which began on November 22, v, shows an increase of over 30 on the total at the end of the ■ The figures are: Second year, fir3t y ear - £448,153,275. '£Lsavings groups in England, Wales i, r Gotland are rapidly nearing the kten mark. With 1327 groups last week, the total is now