ERMAN attempts to leach Mi London, July 1. murmansk, on the Arctic Ocean, to push farther into White Russia and to break through into the Ukraine from Volhynia were cot tinuing with undiminished fury yesterday, but the Russians claim to have halted Hitler's panzer formations in the south and are Russia. opposing the Nazi drive in White The Russians admit that they have withdrawn from the town. of Lwow because the enemy was threatening the rear of the town.
The latest news from the front fan unconfirmed German report that Neal tank columns ore driving at high speed along the road from Minsk to Moscow. It is in this sector, north of the Pinsk marshes, that the heaviest clash between Russian and German forces has occurred, The Germans hurled overwhelming masses of tanks and men into their main incor drive towards Moscow, and the Russians, as their communique he reported, are offering stubborn resi ance, 'This morning's Russian communique does not confirm the German claim to have captured Minsk, the capital of White Russia, Round' Minsk, i is, said, Russian troops are engaged in heavy fighting with numerically superior German mobile units and fave holding their advenes Determined Push South of the Pinsk marshes, where the Germans are making another determined thrust towards Kiev, the Russians state that the Germans being held also. Big battles between tank formations are reported to be continuing and the Russians claim that all German attempts to. break through towards the east have been repelled with heavy losses in the Baltic States, is said to be taking Dvinsk. An, man numerical superiority in which is described as furious. The Russians are opposing the enemy's motorized and armoured column with 'On the southern end of the battle front, the Russians say that yet an~ that German attempt to force a crossing of the River Pruth has been thrown back with heavy losses, 'On the Finnith border, hard fghting is going on near' Murmansk, where German attacks have been Thrown back.
Messages. from Helsinki and Sweden say that a heavy al lack is being made against the Russian fortress of Bange, wert of the Finnish capital. The Finnish radio report that 33 Russian aircraft have been shot down over Finnish territory since Aghting began.
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