Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-05-06 | Page 5 | Nazis Say Guns Fire Leningrad

NAZIS SAY GUNS GUN'S I T 11 FIRE LENINGRAD By Associated Press Ad Adolf lf Hitler's field headquarters I reported that German siege guns I started great fires fire in Leningrad and asserted that communications had been restored with a German army long encircled on the northern north north- ern cnn front This apparently referred to the bloody Russa sector miles south of Leningrad where the nazi Sixteenth army of men had been reported trapped for months Hitler's high command also took worried c cognizance of the havoc inflicted by Russian guerrillas declaring declaring de de- de- de claring daring that in the rear of the eastern front armed bolshevik bands were annihilated at several points Guerrillas Report Raids Coincidentally soviet guerrillas operating in the vicinity of Ger Ger- man-held man Orel miles below Moscow sent a letter to Premier Josef Stalin reporting that they had killed German troops in inthe inthe inthe the last s six months wrecked 16 troop trains trucks 29 planes and 33 tanks blown up bridges and liberated villages Soviet line front-line dispatches said more than 1500 Germans had been killed on the Kalinin front northwest northwest northwest north north- west of Moscow in 72 hours of fighting and declared the nazis were displaying signs of nervousness nervousness nervousness nervous nervous- ness by sending up star shells to illuminate no mans man's land each night Heavy y Fighting Continues Heavy fighting was reported continuing to rage around long- long longI I besieged Leningrad where th the Russians said they had stormed and overrun German positions Britain's great bombing offensive offensive offensive offen offen- sive struck at German war foundries foundries foundries foun foun- dries in Stuttgart for the second night in a row attacked other targets targets targets tar tar- gets in southern Germany and blasted nazi airdromes in northern France and the low countries A Vichy broadcast said antiaircraft antiaircraft antiaircraft craft guns at Lyons and Clermont- Clermont Ferrand 30 miles from Vichy fired at unidentified planes during the night German warplanes carried out light attacks against Engl England's nd's southeast coastal districts FRENCH TRAWLER SINKS VICHY May 6 INS The French trawler Edmond Rene has struck a mine and sunk in the Gulf of Gascoigne the admiralty announced Wednesday Four members members mem mem- mem-I mem bers of the crew of 16 were saved