ENEMY HELD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1941, Page 5

ENEMY HELD

ALL ALONG EASTERN FRONT Successful Russian Counter-attacks at Many Points GERMAN MOBILE DIVISION ROUTED WEST OF ROSTOV LITTLE CHANGE APPARENT IN CRIMEA LONDON, November 14. All along the Eastern front the Russians are holding the Germans and launching successful counter-attacks at many points. . . A German communique claims that in the Crimea Keren is now within range of their artillery, but there is no indication that the Germans have made any closer approach to either Kerch or Sebastopol. The enemy communique says Kerch and Sebastopol are being heavily bombed. 'The Moscow newspaper "Pravda” states in the Ukraine all attempts by the Italians to launch an offensive have failed and that a number of Italian regiments have been put to flight. The rout of a German mobile division on the approach to Rostov is reported by the Moscow radio. Heavy fighting is reported round Tula, 100 miles south of Moscow. Russian planes 'are taking a heavy toll of German reinforcements coming up the Orel-Tula highway. German attempts to reach the highway north of Tula have been frustrated. The Russians are also attacking at some points west of Moscow. In the Kalinin area, north-west of Moscow, the Russians have been counter-attacking and have driven the enemy out of a score of villages. At some points the enemy were routed by dashing Russian cavalry charges. There has been renewed fighting on the Leningrad front and further north the enemy has been driven back west of Murmansk. According to the German radio, the Finns have bombed the Murmansk railway.