The Archive · 1941

Anti-Invasion Defences Built in Norway

that led Falkenhorst Line. a hain of powerful anti-invasion fortifications "stretching along the west the southern Moscow, Aug, 11. Sore: Russia's Red Army was reported yesterday to have halted the latest German offensive and to have launched a series of counter-blows while strengthening defences of the vital Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev sectors.

An official communique claimed the annihilation of almost an entire regiment—the 307th Regiment of the German 163rd Division which had been shifted to the Finnish-Russian front from Narvik, po Norway.

Despatches to Moscow from various of the 1,800-mile-long front German failure to and leg methods had Russians were said to control over virtually all industrial and strategic centres of old Russia.

Official communiques continual day and night ing over the entire battle front amained stationary for over a week. which were proceeding during the night toward one sector of the front. Thirty ged tanks remained on the field after the battle, it was claimed.

Soviet guerillas, according to the communique. were ween a fierce struggle in districts of the Chernovitz region occupied and Rumanian troops. tachment, the "Soviet Bukovina,"

capt trying ambush along a highway and man staff emeers Ai of the Ge—Uni: latter were killed.

Wide-Scale Guerilla Activities by the meril detectonent of Loy Great activity has been red. we! a factory Nazi Attacks Beaten Back

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