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“Lenlnnrad Mnst Be Captured Wiihin Next Few Day»" Says Nazi War Chlef, But-
RDSSIANS LAUKCH FIERCE COCNTER-ATTACKS
Three Cities Recaptured*
• From Germans
Bissians Cross Dnieper at Fonr Piaces
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Red Air Foree Tafces
Toll of IVazi Planes
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London, Sept. 12th.
Russian troops have forced the lower Dnieper at four
Points. They have recaptured an island near Dnieprope-
tfovsk and two villages on the west bank of the river. Reut-
€r’s correspondent in Moscow wires that the Germans are
hot believed to have crossed the Dnieper in any force.
The Gerraan field-marshal,
v°n Lech, is said to have orcF^
€red hip t^oopá to capture
Leningrad in a few days what-
ever the cost. His men have
Itventy miles left to Leningrad
^oni the nearest point they
have reached and today reports
froni Moscow spéak of heavy
■Ftus^ian counter attacks and
the recapture of.three villages
ln the Leningrad area. Enorm-
aUs numbers of planes are in
action. The Russians destroyed
22 German planes ysterday on
an aerodrome, and on the day
before the Russians dstroyed
8l Nazi planes at the cost of
41 of their own.
Rtjssians cross luga
A new Russian counter at-
tack is developing about 100
^iles southwest of Leningrad
ar>d Russian troops are said to
have crossed the river Luga.
this attack the Russians are
threatening to cut off the Ger-
toan army in the Leninglrad
area or at least the best means
°f communications. The Ger-
hians complain loudly of bad
^eather.
In the centre Marshal Timo-
shenko’s forces are progress-
hig in their counter offensive.
The Germans admit that Smo-
lensk is under heavy artillery
fire.
There is little fresh to report
from Murmansk except that
the Russians are counter at-
tacking.
BULGARIA WARNED
M. Molotoff yesterday accus-
ed the Bulgarian Government
pf allowing the Nazis to use
Bulgaria as a bases for attack
on Russia. Hundreds of Axis
ships are now in Bulgarian
ports and German and Italian
marines have already arrived
there. The Nazis are believed
to be preparing an attack on
the Crimea. The Bulgarian
radio last night abused the
Soviet and, for the first time,
•the BBC.
A .few German bombers
crossed the east coast of Bri-
tain last night. There was
little damage.
The Admiralty ■ announces
that a German bomber, at-
tempting to attack á convoy,
has been shot down by a de-
stroyer. Other enemy 'aircraft
were driven away.
In a raid on Suez last night
British night fighters shot
down a Germ. bomber. Other
German planes were damaged.
Portrait of a Victor
Fine type of young manhood, isn’t he? He is an Australian finish-
ing his training in Britain, and representative ,of the millions
of British Empire men gathering from the four corners of the
earth to strike the blow for victory.
R.A.F. Pound Baltic Bases
Docks Hit
Ships Ablaze
Air Offensive Against-
Benghazi Continued
London, Sept. 12th.
Last night RAF bombers
were in. force over Northern
Germany. The main targets
were Kiel and Rostock, the im-
portant Baltic town. This is the
first time Rostock has been
attacked. In both towns num-
erous fires were started. Other
bombers attacked Boulogne
and Le Havre.
Bombers of the Coastal
Command raided docks at
Haugesund in Norway and an
aerodrome. at Stavanger. At-
tacks were made on enemy
supply ships off the Norwegian
and the Dutch coast. Two
ships were badly damaged and
left sinking.
Three bombers are missing
from these operations.
Reports from Cairo state that *
in the Mediterranean the RAF
are continuing their attack on
enemy harbours and shipping.
On Wédnesday night a heavy
attack was made on Benghazi
harbour and another on Mess-
ina where bombs were dropped
on a power station. Landmg
grounds in North Africa were
bombed and machine-gunned
and at one aerodrome 50 dis-
persed enemy aircraft were
bombed. Many of them were
destroyed or damaged.
Reports from Washington
quote Mr. Cordell Hull as say-
ing today that “the defence
waters in whioh U.S. ships will
shoot first will be determined
by German action.”
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