NIGHT AND DAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1942, Page 3

NIGHT AND DAY

CONFLICT ON THE KHARKOV FRONT Germans Attempting to Smash Russian Salient NO CONFIRMATION OF ENEMY ENCIRCLEMENT CLAIMS NAZIS PILING UP HUGE FORCES OPPOSITE MOSCOW LONDON, May 25. The great battle round. Kharkov is still raging. Although the exact position reached in the fighting is still confused, it is thought that the real centre has moved south-east from Kharkov •to the Isyum-Barvenkovo front. Here the Germans are doing their utmost to smash their way into the back of the Russian salient which bulges out in this area. Fighting is going on from dawn to dusk and from dusk to dawn. More and more machinery is being flung into the battle. The German High Command calls the fighting here a great battle of encirclement. It claims that three Soviet armies have been surrounded. In London there is not the slightest confirmation of this report. Round Kharkov the Russians are keeping up their oftensive and are busy consolidating positions torn from the Germans. Still more inhabited places have been captured during the last 24 hours. The Berlin radio states that the German forces have now reached a line which they must hold at all costs. „ On the central front, opposite Moscow, the “Red Star states, the Germans are piling up huge forces of men and material. The Germans claim to have captured over 30 places on this front.