STRATEGIC HEIGHT
IN MALO YAROSLAVETS AREA STORMED BY SOVIET TROOPS. VAIN RECOVERY ATTEMPTS BY GERMANS. LONDON, 1 November 14. Moscow radio stated that Soviet troops in a fierce hand-to-hand battle dislodged the Germans from a fortified height in the Malo Yaroslavets sector, from which the enemy retreated after losing about a battalion of infantry, leaving behind them many machineguns and trench-mortars also a regimental flag. The Germans vainly attempted to recover the lost height, but the initiative remained with the Soviet troops. Fighting is continuing. Another message states that the captured height gives wide observation over an important part of the battlefront.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1941, Page 5
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