GROWING WEAKER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1942, Page 4

GROWING WEAKER

NAZI ATTACKS ON KHARKOV FRONT • - .. ... BERLIN RADIO BLAMES WEATHER. SUCCESSFUL BLOW BY RED AIR FORCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, June 18. A Moscow message says the German thrusts on the Kharkov front are noticeably weaker, after the heavy losses inflicted on von Bock’s forces. The Berlin radio blames the weather for the slow-down, declaring that heavy rains are making communications difficult, and claims that, despite; his losses, Marshal von Bock still has left a good proportion of his original thirty divisions of first-line armoured and infantry forces. The. Moscow radio reports that the Russian Air Force, in a surprise attack on a German airfield on the Kalinin front, destroyed or damaged twenty aircraft, mostly Junkers troop-carriers.