RUSSIAN RAIDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1941, Page 6

RUSSIAN RAIDS

FAR INTO GERMANY ADMITTED IN NAZI COMMUNIQUE. SOVIET VICTORY ON PRUTH. (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, June 25. The Berlin Radio admits that Russian planes are raiding far into Germany and German-occupied territory, including a German naval base in Northern Norway. A. German communique says: ‘'Soviet planes bombed residential! districts in Meme! and Konigsberg, causing fatalities, particularly among prisoners of war.” The “Izvestia’s” war correspondent describes the Soviet victory on the River Pruth, in which the Air Force and cavalry brilliantly co-operated. The correspondent says the enemy, attacking from Falciu, surprised the Russians and crossed the river. “Our border guards self-sacriflcingly defended the frontier,” he adds, “but were overwhelmed by sheer weight of numbers. Then Soviet planes appeared and bombed and machine-gunned the enemy infantry and tanks, inflicting tremendous losses. Our cavalry then charged and, supported by the Air Force, occupied Falcu, from which the enemy retreated in confusion.” A Moscow communique states: —“Rumania has placed her territory at the disposal of Germany, and raids are not only carried out on Soviet cities from Rumania but also German and Rumanian troops are advancing from ♦here. Repeated attempts to capture Czernowitz and the east bank of the River Pruth have failed and we have captured some German and Rumanian troops. NAZI U-BOAT SUNK. ''We sank a submarine in the Gulf of Finland and. as a reprisal for a double raid on Sebastopol, we bombed Constanta and Sulina. The former was left in flames. As a reprisal fori <1 double raid on Kiev, Minsk, Liepaja] ■and Riga we thrice bombed Danzig, i Konisberg, Lublin and Warsaw and caused heavy destruction in military objectives. We set afire oil depots at Warsaw.

“The Germans have dropped detachments of saboteurs dressed in uniforms of the Soviet militia. Our real’ forces annihilated the parachutists.” Messages from Helsinki report that gigantic fires are raging in Leningrad as a result of German raids. Zurich, Switzerland, reports that a former editor of the “Paris Soir,” M. Pierre LazarefT. says that the Russian border fortifications are 100 miles deep and are designed to repel mechanised armies.