AT ALL COSTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1941, Page 6

AT ALL COSTS

RUSSIANS DEFENDING VITAL RAILWAY VICIOUS ENEMY THRUST, HELD IN TIKHVIN REGION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON, November 16. The German news agency stated that German forces driving toward Tikhvin cut the Leningrad-Vologda railway. Kuibyshev admits that the railway has been cut, but claims that the German drive in the Tikhvin region is held, the enemy suffering great losses of men and material. The vicious German thrust toward Tikhvin, aimed at cutting -the vital railway linking Archangel with the main centres, resulted in a fierce battle, which has been raging for several days. All the indications are that the Soviet Command is determined to block the enemy at any cost in order to protect a vital railway.

CRIMEAN FORT

CAPTURE CLAIMED BY NAZIS. (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON, November 16. A German communique says: “German troops attacking Sebastopol took a strongly reinforced and stoutly defended fort. The Luftwaffe continues to attack Sebastopol and Kerch.”

RUSSIAN DEFENCE

STIFFENING DAILY. ENEMY EVERYWHERE HELD. (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, November 16. The position on the central part of the Eastern front is unchanged. The Germans are held at Kalinin and Volokalamsk, while the Tulo front holds despite pressure from th enorth-west and south-east. The Soviet resistance on the south-west front and in the south is stiffening daily. A message from Kuibyshev says that for the Germans, Italians and Rumanians in the Don basin, it is a dreary, hard progress from one burnt-out or flooded coalpit to the next wrecked factory, and hopes by the Germans of a swift move from the Don basin, passing by Rostov, have proved false, while the frontal move from Taganrog remains halted.