Indicating that the Nazis have not yet gained any outstanding decisive Success, the German public at a late hour this morning Were stil)-waiting for the promised announcement of ig victories over the Red Army.
In the ast 24 hours. however, German units are reported to have penetrated deep into the Soviet line between, Vilng and Baranoviteh. in the and many were captured in perfect In one sector. itis claimed that Bavarian Alpine troops dispersed an_armoured division, capturing large number of guns and destroying hundred tanks.
In another sector, a whole Russian Aivision, supported' by an armoured regiment. is said to have been ted.
Tt is also claimed that Germen troops are welcomed as liberators by all frontier peoples conquered by the Soviet. and that a Lithuanian battery and a Cossack unit of 200 men went over to the Germans.
Among exploits of the Luftwaite tone. squadron is reported to have destroyed 21 Russian" machines and scattered a column of lorries.
'Meanwhile, a Merce battle is raging. round Lwow' (Lemberg), according 19 the Lyons Radio. Lwolw is presumably ti] in Russian hands despite UunoMeial Axis reports that Germans had captured it.
'The Lyons Radio also says. that after five days' fighting Nazi circles consider that the battle of frontiers over and that the results are. thely favourable to" the Germans.
Attention, it adds, is now fixed on Leningrad. which is threatened from three sides—by German troops from the Baltic countries, by German-Fir-ruth forees, and by, aerial bombard-tment, Four Russian divisions. are! ald io be massed round Leningrad.
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