VICTORY IN SOUTH
CLAIMED BY RUSSIANS ENEMY THROWN BACK BEYOND PRUTH. ABANDONMENT OF ARMS & EQUIPMENT. LONDON, July 8. Powerful Russian counter-attacks in the Central and southern sectors of the Eastern battlefront are described in tonight’s Russian communique. The Russians claim to have flung back German and Rumanian troops in disorder beyond the River Pruth in Bessarabia. The enemy abandoned arms and equipment. SOVIET MISSION ARRIVAL IN LONDON. I British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, July 8. Led by Lieutenant-General Golikov. Deputy Chief of the Red Army General Staff, a Soviet services mission
arrived in London this evening. The mission was met at the station by the Soviet Ambassador, the Vice-Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, the Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff and the Deputy-Chief of the Air Staff. As the Soviet officers stepped from the train a large crowd which had assembled began to sing “The Internationale.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1941, Page 5
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