London, July 5. ESPITE repeated German attempts to cross the Beresina and Pruth Rivers they were successfully hurled back by heavy Russian fire and suffered heavy losses, Moscow radio, quoting the official Russian war communique, was heard to announce today.
The situation on Russian front was practically unchanged, reported' Moscow radio.
The war communique, according to Moscow radio, said that Mghting on the front throughout last night falled fo bring any substantial changes in the position and groupings of Russian troops.
"In the direction of Murmansk, Xandalaksha, and the " Karelian Isthmus fighting continued with separate groups of the enemy, said the communique.
"In the Borisov and Bobriusk sectors, fighting continued throughout the night a} the Beresina and Pruth rivers. The enemy repeatedly tried to cross the rivers but way success~ fully. repulsed by our fire. The enemy 1s suffering heavy losses on water and on the shores, asserted the communique, As a result of the enemy's failure to advance in the Tranapol area, he diverted his thrust to the Novograd and. Volynske sectors, "Throughout he night our troops were engaged Ju. successful battles, stemming th advance of enemy tanks to the cast.' United Press. ready incurred la eastern Poland and Baltic States.
"Soviet forces piled up along the frontier have been scattered and penetrated," says the German news agency. "'Soviet troops, equipment and planes have suffered so severely that their losses cannot be made up."
At the same time the Germans admit that large-scale fighting—impor~ tant _mopping-up operations is the phrase used—is still going on behind the German front as "pockets" of [Soviet troops continue to resist stubbornly. "The whole terrain is being embed for scattered "units of the Meanwhile, a new. threat to Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, is developing from the south, where the Germans claim that Hungarian troops, advanc-fug across the Carpathians, have 700,000 Nazis Said Casualties Moscow, July 8.
Nazis Thrown Back Official announcements issued Moscow, Suly 5, Red Army forces yesterday threw back repeated Nazi attempts to cross the Beresina river, and fighting in fat sector was' developing—un~ favourably" for. the Germans, on official Russian communique claimed Jose night, The Russians also checked the Ger~ man drive toward Tarnopol, guarding, the rich Ukraine area, but it was admitted that the Red Army had Suffered reverses in the Dvinsk area, After. throwing back repeated German attacks, the Russians withdrew to new positions to bar the gateway guarding Moscow on the east and Leningrad on the north, 'The Russians were also pushed back several kilometers in the Lepel region of the Latvian front, the communique admitted, 'There was no fresh' news available from either the Bossarabion or Fin-stalin that a facing the country appeared to have rallied the nation around the Central Defence Committee which. has mobilized state and private resources fend energies towards the single goal of repelling the invader, The immediate reaction of thous ands of citizens was to stream to assembly halls trid outdoor meeting, Places where they heard popular Crators explain the military situation, All the meetings pledged to make supreme efforts for national defence, last night claimed that no less than 700,000 Germans have been killed or wounded since Chancellor Adolf Hitler sent his army into Russia—United Press. reached the plains beyond and have joined up. with the right wing of the German army in eastern Poland, Tough Soviet Resistance "The Hungarians overcome the tough resistance of the Soviet troops {ing Thursday's Aghting "The Hungarian air force is support Ing land forces by violent attacks on Soviet columns."
Reports indicating the determina tion with which Soviet troops are counter-attacking continue to appear in the German press. One says: "Tu the Dubno sector a German unit has for three days held up a violent a tack by hundreds. of Soviet S2-ton tanks, "German anti-tank guns have een in constant action, causing great damage to tanks by penetrating their armament and destroying their steel turrets. Many of the heaviest Soviet tanks have been destroyed, The same unit then stormed forward and took six. Soviet batteries and captured a number of armoured vehicles."
"The Germans claim to have cop-tured a large number of aerodrome {in the Baltic States fitted out by the Russians in the past year with all modern equipment, Bertin, July, Luftwaffe units yesterday raided Soviet. lines of communications and moving masses of Red Army troops as German ground troops. pushed through the front lines toward the vital "Stalin Line" guarding the interior of Russia.
The Luftwalfe bore the brunt of the German attack, as the Panzer Jcolumns began consolidating in some Unsuccessful Raid Malta, July 5.
British fighters intercepted and drove off a large formation of aircraft which attempted to raid Malta yesterday morning, it is officially stated.
One enemy fighter was shot down and another ° probably destroyed, the defence suffering no losses,—Reuter. areas. Official communiques, how-Jover, stated that operations ate proceeding according to plan.
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