INTENSE FIGHTING AT KERCH

Southland Times, Issue 24593, 15 November 1941, Page 7

INTENSE FIGHTING AT KERCH

TOWN DESCRIBED AS GATEWAY TO CAUCASUS

(Rec. 12.35 a.m.) LONDON, November 14. The most intense battle on the Eastern Front is taking place at Kerch, which is described as the gateway from the Crimea to the Caucasus. The Germans claim that the harbour installations at Kerch are within range of their artillery. Outside Rostov, at the head of the Sea of Azov, the Germans are still held up by the determined Russian resistance. On the Moscow front the initiative has passed to the Russians. Even the Vichy radio admits this claim. The Stockholm correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, referring to the statement that the Russians on the Neva river are bringing up reinforcements along the railway from Vologda, says this is a clear indication that the Germans prematurely claimed the capture of Tikhivin, because the Vologda railway passes through Tikhivin. The Russian Army newspaper Red Star says that Soviet units are beginning to receive a new anti-tank rifle in increasing quantities. It tells how on the Mojaisk front a Red Army anti-tank rifleman, 430 yards from the road, fired against one of several advancing tanks. The bullets pierced the turret and evidently hit a shell, for the turret was blown clean off, the remainder of the tanks turned back.