MANY PLACES OCCUPIED
ISTHMUS CLEARED OF ENEMY RUSSIANS’ TRIUMPHANT MARCH (Received Sept. 22, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 21. Troops of the Leningrad front, developing their offensive in the Tallinn direction on September 21, occupied the town and key railway station of Rakvere and fought their way into 300 inhabited localities, says a Moscow communique.
The Russians advancing west from Narva have completely cleared the enemy from the Isthmus between Lake Peipus and the Gulf of Finland, and joined the troops advancing on the western shore of Lake Peipus. The Russians north-west and west of Valga occupied inhabited localities and west of Jelgava repelled large enemy infantry and tank attacks. The Red Army south-east and south of Krosdo occupied a number of inhabited localities. The Russians in west Rumania, in co-operation with the Rumanian forces, occupied 100 inhabited localities, including the town of Lipova.
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22460, 22 September 1944, Page 3
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