London, June 29.
FIERCE battle is now progressing in the Minsk and Luck areas, in the central sector of the Russo-Gernan war front, with both sides throwing masses of armour ired units and infantry into the engagement.
The German drive is divided into two main columns, one directed against Minsk and Luck and the other towards Minsk and To Russians claim to have halted the drive against Luck after infiting devastating losses on the Germans, while in the Baranovitch sector fierce fighting is still progressing, 'A Russian communique states:—~ "The advance of tank units forming the spearhead of German tank ceclumns. in the direction of Minsk fend Luck has keen stopped by opera tions of our troops, Enemy—tank detachments. suffered heavy losses, "In the direction of Minsk and Beronovitch Merce fighting is, in progress, with enemy infantry Units attempting to link up with their advanced tank columns., By stubborn resistance and counterattacks these directions our troops are holding up movements of the enemy's forces, inflicting heavy defeats on him, the direction of Luck," adds the communique, "large scale tank balties are continuing, while our air force has dealt a number of crushing blows to enemy tank formations. Ri full of th battle are under examin 'Turning to the northern front, the communique claims that along the whole of the Russo-Finnish frontier enemy forces carried out consider-fable land reconnaissances accom: panied by artillery fire, but that all 'Attempts to penetrate' into Soviet territory were beaten back, "In other sectors of the front our troops are holding the state frontier", concludes the communique, Terrific Battle The greatest battle of the week-old Soviet-German war is in progress in the Minsk sector, where Nazi and Russian armoured units are reported to have clashed in a headlong collision, According to a Soviet communique, Tesé than 4,000 tanks are engai Ju the battle, besides artillery, alr raft, and infantry.
Moscow also announces that intensive fighting is-going on in the Lwow flank in the struggle developing around Lwow, A communique Issued by the High Command of the German and Ruman. fan Armies says action against the Russian forees continued from_ the Sea, mountains of Bukovinia to the Black
'According to a Bucharest message to the official Italian news agency this communique claims' that the German-Rumanian units have every= where aflamed their objectives, also declares that Russian parachute troops had landed at several points on Rumanian territory, Most of them, had been captured,
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