Russian advance IN CENTRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 223, 22 September 1941, Page 5

Russian advance IN CENTRE

I RESISTANCE AT LENINGRAD RED ARMY GIVES BLOW FOR BLOW (Recd. 6.50 p.m.) Rugby, Sept. 21. An agency message from Moscow states that the Russian forces are advancing slowly but surely in the central sector, and are mopping up enemy troops. The latest dispatch from the front reports that one division has recovered 14 villages and advanced 20 kilometres. Fighting continues, with the Red Army driving forward relentlessly. In Leningrad, messages state, the defenders are dealing out to the enemy blow for blow, and are using the slogan, “Not a step will we retreat!” In a number of local skirmishes the Red Army is reported to have recaptured settlements and destroyed enemy planes. Isvestia, in a dispatch from the front line, states that St. Petersburg. Petrograd, or Leningrad, have never permitted an enemv to enter the citv. —8.0.W. BRUTAL TREATMENT OF RUSSIAN PRISONERS RED ARMY THREATENS REPRISALS London, Sept. 19. The brutal treatment of Russian prisoners of war in Germany is reported by the Turin newspaper Stampa. A special correspondent of the paper who has just toured German prison camps where Russian soldiers are interned makes no effort to conceal his horror at what he saw. “Nowhere in the world can there exist such distress, illness and unhappiness as in these camps,” he wrote. “Of 30.000 Russian prisoners in the Neudek zone, half were stricken with typhus. The victims are segregated in special barracks guarded by German troops, who fire on any prisoner approaching them.” In a radio warning not to continue ill-treating Russian prisoners, a Red Army spokesman said: “For every Red soldier thus killed we will kill ten Germans. Neutral observers in Germany confirm this crime. Russian soldiers are dying from starvation and a lack of medical attention. They shall be avenged without mercy.—U.P.A. FINLAND WANTS EASTERN KARELIA PURPOSE IN FIGHTING London, Sept. 19. British subjects arriving in Lisbon from Finland express the opinion that Finland will continue to fight until she possesses the strategically valuable territory of Eastern Karelia, which would’ cut off the Russianfrom Murmansk. The Finns, it is said, realise that they have already lost more men than in the Russo-Finnish war. and that the Germans are likely to undertake the final assault on Leningrad themselves. —U.PA. AIR RAID ON MOSCOW ONLY ONE PLANE GETS THROUGH (R-cd. 6.40 p.m.) Rugby, Sept. 20. It is officially stated in Moscow that only one German raider, out of a number attempting to raid Moscow last night got through the city's defences. A few bombs were dropped. No damage was done. —8.0.W.