HOPE NOT LOST
OF THWARTING ENEMY IN CRIMEA IN SPITE OF MECHANISED THRUST. PENETRATING DEFENCES , ON KERCH ISTHMUS. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, November 13. What amounts to confirmation of German claims to have penetrated the Russian defences at the Kerch Isthmus is contained in a Kuibyshev message, which says the situation in the area of the key town of Kerch is reported to- have become graver. By concentrating five infantry divisions, one motorised division and two cavalry brigades, the Germans overwhelmed a numerically inferior force of Soviet troops and hammered their way through the defences on the Kerch Isthmus. They failed, however, to follow up this success and the Russians are reported to be stemming further advances. Fierce fighting is continuing by day and night. The Black Sea Fleet is actively helping the defenders of the Crimea along the. entire front and the Russians have not lost hope of thwarting the enemy attempts to advance. ' x
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1941, Page 6
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