Daily Post - 27.08.1941, Page 4

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Germans Claim Gapture Of Rossieo Towos
Moseow
Raid-Free
Loss of Steel Town
Setback for Reds
Beavy Figtating Continues
London, August 26th.
Late today the Germans
announced the capture o£
Dniepropetrovsk, the important
steel town. They say von
Kleist’s panzer units entered
the town late yesterday and
that the Russians have now lost
their last foothold on this side
of the Dnieper. If the report is
true, the loss of this town is a
serious setback for the Rus-
sians hut it does not follow that
the Germans will succeed in
forcing thte river which is more
than a mile in breadth.
The Red Star, organ of the
Red Army says that during the
fighting in the Ukraine the
Germans have lost 50% of
16 panzer divisions. ’ The
Rumanian Guards division has
been completely routed and
cteased to exist as a fighting
unit.
TANKS’ DIFFICULTIES
The Germans also claim the
capture of Luga, a small raií-
way town north of Novgorod.
They admit that they had to
fight there for several days.
There are heavy rains on this
part of the front and it is be-
coming extremely difficult to
use tanks.
The Germans have made no
attempt to raid Moscow during
the last week, but previously
they had made 24 raids on the
city.
The Russian communiqué
this morning briefly stated that
stubborn fighting was going on
along the entire front. The Ger-
man communiqué was only two
lines and laconically announc-
ed that everything was going
according to plan. It was an-
nounced in Moscow last night
that Novgorod had fallen.
LENINGRAD READY
It may therefore be expected
that the Germans will try to
cut the Moscow-Leningrad rail-
way line, but they have a long
They Signal Success
t
By thumbs up members of the crew of the British submarine Snapper mean they are satis-
fied with their latest trip. And they certainly should be — they had sunk four or five
German ships and had a number of prisoners aboard.
Anstralian Cabinet
Will Not Resign
The Australian Labour Party
has not only rejected Mr. Men-
zies’ offer of a National
Government but demanded the
forming of a new government.
This was stated in a letter from
Mr. Curtin to the Cabinet.
The Australian Cabintet has-
decided not to resign. The Ca-
hinet had a five hours meeting
to discuss the letter written by
JWr. Curtin and then announced
its decision.
way to go to reach it and
difficult country.
Today Pravda says that the
people of Leningrad stand like
a steel wall in defence of their
town. Thousands of workers are
learning warfare against tanks,
how to throw grenades and
bottles of petrol.
THE SHOW GOES ON
(Continued from page 3.)
ered to Close unti'l futther niotice.
We expeoted then to be bombed
day and night froan the word
“go'”. The weeks wient but Goer-
ing, it seems, was not ready,
so gradually the order was re-
laxed- The cinemas o.pened in
the day-time only. Here and there
a theatre came batcik to life.
Gradually the shows got later,
and now it is “business as usual,
bombs permitting”.
May and June in peaœ-time
were always the pealk-months of
the London season. They have
been- the brightest for the show
business úi this year of war 1941.
Our “d'Oiuhle summer-time” as
we call it (putting the olock on
flwo hours ahead of sun-time in
the summer) give us long re-
freshing evenings to make up for
liost sleep and shorter holidays.
The longer the evenings the later
the shows» and more of them.
We have niot as many theatres
Oipen this time as we had in
tíie last war. Many have been
bombed, including the fainous
Theatie Royal Dmry Lane, head-
quarters of ENSA, the troops’
entertainment organisation.
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