KARELIAN ATTACK
BV PICKED GERMAN TROOPS DEFEATED WITH GREAT SLAUGTER. ATTEMPT TO CUT RAILWAY FAILS. (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) MOSCOW, November 17. The “Pravda’s” war correspondenton the Karelian front describes an operation by picked German troops a fortnight ago in the Kestenga area, when they attempted to cut an important railway and drive a wedge between Russian units to disrupt Russian communications and thus improve their position in the Murmansk area. The enemy’s furious attack was met with such tenacity and valour that in the first ten days of the fighting the enemy lost about 4,000 killed. The Soviet troops then attacked the German flank, advanced several miles, captured a number of important localities and left hundreds of killed and wounded lying on the snow-cov-ered ground. Threafter the enemy failed to move a step forward.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1941, Page 5
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