EFFECTIVE BLOWS
STRUCK BY AIR FORCE , & PARTISANS ON LENINGRAD FRONT. TOLL. TAKEN OF MEN & MATERIAL (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, November 13.
The latest news from the Leningrad front, where recently there has been a certain renewed activity, is contained in a Soviet supplementary communique, which states: “Soviet Stormovik dive-bombers, operating on the Leningrad front, destroyed in one day five enemy tanks, 27 lorries of infantry and supplies, and 35 oil tanks and killed
about 150 infantry and one cavalry troop. Partisan groups in the Leningrad districts destroyed in the first four days of November five enemy planes, eleven tanks, six armoured cars, 153 lorries, nineteen oil tanks, sixteen motor-cars and two ammunition stores. They have blown up 43 bridges, amongst them seven railway bridges, and killed 28 German officers and 1,536 soldiers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1941, Page 6
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