The Moscow radio yesterday said that in the northern sector in the Kun district. German forces, stag-sering under Red counter-attacks, had "begun defensive operations. Nazis were digging trenches, laying barbed wire and bringing up reserves, said the radio.
Fierce battles continued in the Volokolamsk direction. where ' the Germans still were trying to press! ahead, despite heavy losses, said the radio.
Heavy fighting also was reported in the Mojaisk and Maloyaroslavets
tacks by two rman infantry b Ge divisions in the northern sector of the Mojaisk front were beaten Russian artillery and fire, said the radio. were reported to be Russian despatches said that the Rea Army had opened a thundering artillery barrage near Kharkov additional 90 villages near the forces of Azov, creatine such peril to German forces in the south iit; een'iy. by the Canadian corvettes Chambly and Moose-Jaw was U-501, a new submarine and the first of a Dew series of 740-ton U-boats, states the Admiralty.
She was built in Hamburg commissioned on April 30, 1941 and was under the command the surface and fire more ihan 40 shells. to sink the steamer. Destruction of, this small unprotected ship was U-501's only contribution to Germany's alleged blockade of Great Britain.
On September 11, the U-boat attempted to attack a British convoy. She was detected by two Canadian Corvettes which formed part of the escort. One of the corvettes, H.M.C.S. Chambly, made a depth-charge at-fack which considerably damaged the U-boat. All lights went out, the instruments were smashed and valves damaged. Water entered the hull and reached the electric batteries, producing chlorine gas.
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