| Show REDS GERMANS REGROUP UNITS UNITS- MOSCOW April 26 UP The UP-The The Russian and German high commands commands com- com mands were reported regrouping their armies along the vast 1800 mile front Monday with only air and find patrol atrol skirmishes breaking the lull In the fighting It was believed that the opposIng opposing opposing ing armies were drawing up battle battle battle bat bat- tle lines for tor what m may Y be hi a shoWdown shoW hoW down flown battle this summer Observers Observers Ob Ob- servers b believed th the G Germans will launch their anticipated off offensive as s soon as th the ground dries from th the spring th thaw w. w Featuring the small-scale small actions actions actions ac ac- ac- ac detailed in the soviet midday were the penetration tion of ot Gern German an trenches on th the front and the r repulse puls of a German infantry attack tt ck bel below w in the Ukraine 70 Germans Killed Seventy Germans G were killed in ina ina a hand to hand to-hand clash by a a. Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian patrol that broke into the enemy nemy trenches northeast of Sm th the c said The Russians destroyed one gun and four machine guns and blew Up a pillbox and five dugouts South of ot the Russians killed derm German rt officers and men In be beating off ff an 1 int infantry attack Soviet artillery dispersed an en enemy enemy n. n emy my convoy and d destroyed 12 c carts loaded with w war r supplies The Sunday midnight que reported that the Russians seining th the initiative in Itt n the northwest northwest north north- west Caucasus after standing off ft G German counterattacks ratta ks for r ne nearly a l fortnight atta attacked ked and improved improved im Im- proved d their positions in hi a stubborn battle Att Attack ck Airdromes Supporting the Caucasian C U 8 i n ground forc forces s t red d air force bombed enemy touching off fires and explosions wrecked wreck d parked plan planes s and destroying 18 enemy aircraft ft in dugouts On th the T gant g front on the theS S Sea df of f a Germ German b battalion pressed back soviet forces In an attack but a soviet Counterblow restored the situation German dead total totaled d the said With the war in th the air over the Russian front gaining in intensity dally daily the Russians shot down or destroyed on the ground German German Ger Ger- man planes with a loss of of ot their own aircraft during the week ended Saturday |
