HEAVY ATTACKS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24275, 16 May 1942, Page 7

HEAVY ATTACKS

LENINGRAD FRONT RUSSIANS ADVANCING SUPREMACY IN THE AIR (Seed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 14 A special Moscow despatch says Russian infantry, in close co-opera-tion with tanks and planes, are successfully advancing on several sectors of the Leningrad front. The Germans are desperately attempting to resist, but have been forced to retreat. The Russian Air Force holds the supremacy in night and day bombing' of enemy lines and communications. Fifteen miles south-east of Leningrad the Russians are reported to have plunged through seas of mud to attack the German flank. The Berlin radio admits that the Russian defenders of Leningrad are heavily attacking the south flank of the German lines, particularly in the region of Kolpino. It says that German reinforcements have been sent to this area. The Moscow radio, however, says the Russian artillery thwarted German attempts to bring up reserves. A communique' says: "On the Leningrad front on Tuesday Soviet troops occupied ten enemy trenches and captured booty, including two tanks, seven arrpoured cars and four guns. On one sector of the north-west-ern front the Russians, in fierce fighting. occupied two enemy sea defence positions, inflicting severe losses on the enemy in men* and material. On another sector of the same front they destroved 28 blockhouses and several machine-gun nests." The Russians are thrusting north and south of Lake Umen. Enemy attempts to use transport planes on a large scale to relieve the encircled German Sixteenth Army have been /frustrated, as the Russians have down 229 of these planes in ihe course of several days. In addition, 37 fighters have been destroyed. On the Kalinin front, an enemy infantry battalion, supported by tanks, attacked the Russian positions. The Russians allowed the enemy to get m close range and then mowed them down with point-blank fire. The Russians counter-attacked and the Germans retreated, leaving 400 dead and wounded. QUISLING ON TOUR SPEEDS OVER BATTLE FRONT LONDON, May 15 The Norwegian traitor, Quisling, is feported by "the Oslo radio to have visited the eastern front from the Black Sea to Finland. The visit_ occupied six days, which means that it was ®ade at a speed of about 200 miles a day. PLOW OF SUPPLIES LONDON, May 14 According to the British United Press correspondent, informed quarters in Ankara eny that 1,500,000 tons of British *nd American war materials have reached ports in North Russia during winter, and an average of 20 lorries 4 day has entered Russia from Iran, "as as quantities of supplies arriving by rail. The volume of materials enter"g from north and south is increasing. CHINESE DO WELL VICTORY OVER JAPANESE 5.35 p.m.) CHUNGKING, May 14 Authoritative sources reported tothat Chinese troops operating only 25 miles south-west of Nanking, Hohsien, on the Yangtse about 100 Japanese being killed. Hohsien on December 12, that Japanese bombers sank the Umted States gunboat Panay. rorty thou'sand .Japanese troops Massed south of Hankow in an attempt p "rive into the interior of Chekiang ffovince, have been repulsed while tryto cross a river. RUBBER from vine SUPPLY FROM ZULULAND 5.5 p.m.) JOHANNESBURG, May 14 ' !»? anS ave ' 3een made for the extracI® of rubber from South African pMts,, particularly from Zululand's vine. Samples of landolphia' t ?;ber in London before the war * n y a pound less than