Evening star., 1941-10-02
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Black Sea, the Soviet information
bureau said guerrillas operating be-
hind the German lines made 18 raids
during September, destroyed seven
large bridges. mined 16 roads and
killed several hundred Germans and
Rumanians.
AS an example of guerrilla meth
| DDS, one detachment of 25 German
motorcycle troops was chased into
one of the lagoons near Odessa and
drowned, the Russians said.
In one sector of the Leningrad
front, Red Star said, the battle was
raging in its fifth day where the
Germans hurled fresh forces. The
Russians counterattacked yesterday
10 minutes before the Germans had
planned to renew their own assaults,
it was said.
Red Army tanks, infantry and ar
tillery were said to have collaborated
in recapture of point known
as M
Russian counterattacks persisted
in the central sector, where. accord
ing to Red Star, tank unit and an
infantry battalion routed two Ger
man battalions from the village "V,"
destroying IA tanks and other equip
ment in the last eight days.
Germans Using Gliders.
German use of gliders was dis
closed by the Soviet Information
Bureau in statement saying three
of the craft and 10 planes had been
shot down by Red flyers of the Black
Sea fleet. The scene apparently was
Crimea, where Russian defenders
have told of repulsing German
drives from the region east of the
Dnieper.
The German-Russian battle for
Crinea has been marked by very
severe fighting, but the invaders are
making extremely slow progress
southwark, an authoritative source
said in London.
German forces still are on the
Isthmus of Perekop, which links
Crimea with the Russian Ukraine,
| and not much beyond the 7-mile
penetration reported previously, it
was said.
The action against glider trans
port of troops and supplies was one
of series of Soviet aerial blows re-
ported as the seasons first snow
blanketed parts of the Ukraine.
Indicating heavy aerial action in
the widespread battle for Leningrad,
the Russian communique said flyers
of one Soviet air squadron alone had
smashed about 300 German trucks,
38 armored cars, IA tanks and sew
eral artillery batteries and annihi-
lated a large number of infantry"
on the northwestern front in the
last three days.
Flyers of the Baltic feet were
said to have successfully attacked
Fascist motorized units" silencing
two anti-aircraft batteries and de-
stroying two tanks, as well as several
trucks
Land fighting was dismissed with
the statement that Russian troops
fought the invaders along the entire
front yesterday.
PetrozayOdsk Saved"
Finnish Army correspondents re-
ported that sudden break through
by Finnish troops in taking PetroZa-
vodsk had forestalled Russian plans
to destroy large part of the city.
The fall of Petrozavodsk, East
Karelian capital, was announced
yesterday.
Dntlnk,1rr I,o1f IF tho ~
buildings of the city were unharmed,
correspondents reported, because of
the swift entrance of Finnish troops
even as Russian demolition crews
were at work.
The Firms said they found only
few dozen civilians hiding in cell
lars, SO complete had been the evac-
uation of the city whose population
was reported to have risen lately to
100000 persons.
The Helsinki newspaper Suomen
Sosialidemokraatti was reported to
have expressed the hope that the
war against Russia would soon be
over for Finland A Stockholm dis
patch to Reuters quoted the paper
as saying:
Now that Petrozavodsk Capital
of the Karelian Societ Republic)
has fallen, it is hoped that the pres
ent war operations are nearly ended
as far as we are concerned.
Once again we repeat that the
Finnish people do not wish for war.
II 1t had depended on us, it never
would have happened. Finland is
engaged in Separate war, though
foreign observers may think differ
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