RED NAVY HELPS LAND FORCES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 187, 11 August 1941, Page 5

RED NAVY HELPS LAND FORCES

ACTION ON BALTIC FRONT s (Reed. 9.20 p.m.) London, Aug. 9. ■ Soviet warships, going into action in support of troops on the Baltic front. I bombarded and destroyed a large coni cent rat ion of Germans. [ It is announced in Moscow that ' sailors of the Red navy have taken lup position on the Estoirar. front, ilr.ey recaptured a village after a jthree-day battle in their first land i encounter. j The naval units marched 50 mile, into action and an artillery due! pre- ! ceded their bayonet charges. I lhe Times’ Stockholm correspondent says the Germans are assisting a i new and determined Finnish attempt Ito leach Lake Ladoga, with a view to applying the favourite German an jnih.lation tactics against tne relatively large Russian forces which the capture of Kexholm < Kakisalmi) ! would isolate.

I The Russians are resltiting stubbornly and the Finns so far have mad-, onlv slight progless in any direction I M. Eydinov, of the Central Cornimittee of the Communist Party, state.! I that guerrila warfare in the enemy rear had spread, everywhere. Several hundred dctacniu.-nts hai already destroyed several Germa: 'divisional and regimental headquarters and recaptured at least five towns 'before the Germans were forced t: 'dlv -rt large numbers of troops tor the 'defence of the towns.

| Moscow raidc reports an instance [of mutiny among the Germans. .Guerrillas captured 12 rr.eii of the second company of the 116th German (infantry Regiment, who were awaiting a court-martial. | GuerriJas ki!i‘ 1 the Storm Troop-|-’rs guarding the mutineers, who said I the company refused to continue the I fight because it had had no proper [food for days and the treatment by I the officers was intolerable. The Hungarians, in their first communique since August 2, say that they continued their offensive operations and gained "notable successes." In a battle of annihilation along the River 'Bug the Germans and Hungarians checked enemy attempts to break out pud the enemy suffered great losses.—