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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24732, 8 October 1941, Page 6

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THE EASTERN FRONT RUSSIANS CLAIM SUCCESS (Rec. 2 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 7. Neither side in the mighty new Russian-German battle has yet reported progress, but Pravda to-day mentions a success which, judging from the details given, appears to be connected therewith, though the location is tantalisingly withheld. Pravda, quoted by the Moscow radio, reports the rout of a German tank division, an anti-tank brigade, and an anti-aircraft regiment with the loss of 5500 killed and 100 tanks, 250 motor cycles, 20 trench mortars, 15 light tanks and lorries destroyed or captured. The defeat was inflicted after five days of heavy fighting. Pravda does not mention wounded or prisoners, but the large number of killed suggests a heavy total of German losses.

Pravda’s war correspondent on the south-western front states that the Soviet cavalry in one sector, working with tanks and bombers, killed many hundred officers and men near a certain village. He adds that the enemy’s Twenty-fifth Motorised and Ninth Tank'Divisions suffered heavy losses. The Russians captured about 400 lorries and 100 guns and destroyed 15 tanks and 51 anti-tank guns. T|he Helsinki radio claims that German forces which are already at Peterhof defeated a Russian attempt to land there from the Gulf of Finland. BOMBS ON ENGLAND NO CASUALTIES OR DAMAGE LONDON, Oct. 7. An official communique states that during the early part of the night enemy aircraft dropped bombs at & point in south-west England. These caused neither casualties nor damage.