London, June 27. JNPA4RLx five million men are reported to be locked in furious combat today all the way from the Arctic to the Black Sea as the Na: reinforced by the Hungarians, who today declared war against Russia, increased pressure along the entire front.
German tanks' were to the fore in every major battle, and while it is admitted by Moscow that some Nazi mechanized units have penetrated the Russian lines between Vilna and Darenovitsky, 120 miles to the south, the Soviets are said to have won a fierce tank battle about 25 miles north-east of Lwow.
On three fronts from the Baltic to southern Poland the battles today are reported {0 have been between German tanks and Russian aircraft, and it is claimed that Soviet bombing attacks caused very heavy casualties among German infantry which. followed in the wake of their tanks, At the most southern front, wiiers the River Pruth separates Rumania and Ressarabia, Moscow asserts that the Germans have been beaten back with Tosses,, and. that five Russian Gotachments have crossed the river into enemy country, No News of Nazi Push, There is no further news of the progress of the German push through the Baltic States towards Leningrad, which is believed to be the objective of their fourth main drive on Western Russia, The Russians also claim that they huve accounted for all the parachutists dropped behind their nes.
It is believed in. Washington' that the German army has apparently tested control of the Reich's war policies from the Nazis and embarked on_a campaign of conquest, Forelnn reports are quoted there fas saying that on the question of a German attack on the Soviet Union Yeaders of the army split sharply with the party heads, who appeted such an attack favouring Instead ellcout attempt to conquer Britain, Hitler, these reports: satd, nally sided with the military, thus' placing the army back in power in Germany, It is reliably reported in Washing: ton that the Russians have two-thirds the number of German planes Dut twice as many tanks in. action, They are credited with 48 tone bri: gades, considered the equivalent of Dulf os many full divisions, compared ili 12 German Panzer divisions,
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