DESPERATE EFFORTS
MADE BY THE GERMANS AT SEBASTOPOL DEFENDERS HARD PRESSED. BUT STILL ROLLING BACK ASSAULTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, June 12. Despite hourly increasing pressure, Sebastopol continues courageously to hold out. The Russians are inflicting terrific losses on the enemy as the battle sways back and forth, with the Germans making a desperate effort to consolidate the small gains which the “Red Star” admits they have made. The paper adds: “The situation on a number of sectors is extremely tense. It will need great staunchness and the exertion of every effort and the mobilisation of all available means to throw the enemy back.” -‘The latest news from Sebastopol reveals that the Germans yesterday made a major effort to break through in two sectors. Russian naval infantry in one sector were subjected to a two-hour raid, but met the enemy with such a concentrated artillery, mortar and rifle fire that the' powerful German force was checked, after which a Russian, counter-attack rolled the enemy back. The Germans suffered substantial casualties. The Germans, in another sector, employed numerous tanks in an effort to crash through the Russian line. Accurate Russian artillery fire destroyed 25 tanks. The Russian's then counterattacked from two sides and the enemy was driven back. A German High Command statement claims that the Germans yesterday occupied a wide strip of territory in the Volkhov sector.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 June 1942, Page 4
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