Huge tank and armoured squadrons of the Soviet and German war machines, supported by masses of infantry and specialists, battled fiercely in four sectors of the western front throughout yesterday as hostilities entered the fifth week.
Official communiques stated that there were no important changes in the positions of the two armies.
Violent fighting raged in the Pskov and Porkhov sectors, where the mans were seeking to drive a sp head through Russian defences guarding Leningrad. In White Russia, the Red Army continued to hold up the Germans in the Polotsk-Nevel area, while there was no change in the Novograd-Volynsk front where the Germans have been Battering cease. lessly at Russian positions for several days In the Smolensk direction—Russia has not yet admitted correctness of the German claim of fall of that important communications centre bloody fighting raged for the fourth successive day with the Germans, according to communiques, unable fo show any decisive. advance.
Soviet naval aviation sank a German destroyer in the Baltic, according to the official communique.
The Red Air Fleet destroyed 25 German planes during operations Sunday, it was announced. Air operations, however, continued to-be limited due to the weather.
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