The Archive · 1941

Red Army Firm

The latest Moscow communique re~ ports no more about this part of the front than shat the Russian army is standing firm on the old Russian frontier.

The Germans do not yot claim the faking of Livow, bu? say they have captured strong positions west of the town and are now advancing on Lwow itself.

'The Russians, it is remembered, very recently claimed that they were holding their own all along the front for from Przemysl, some distance south-west of Lwow, to the Black Sea, and this makes' is more signi. ficant that the eagorly.expected German announcement last night said nothing whatever about this art of the front, although it covers arly a third of the whole line from Baltic to the Black Sea.

"The Germans have not yet claimed fo have crossed the river Pruth, the boundary between Rumania and Bessarabia, except at one point.

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