Crucial Stage Of Ukraine Battle

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 122, 26 May 1942, Page 5

Crucial Stage Of Ukraine Battle

REDS RESUME DRIVES

Von Bock Hammering Hard On Timoshenko's Flank

(United Press Association._Copyright.-Rec. 1 p. m .) Th«- Rn * LONDON, May 25. tion in the KhaX>v "e^on"™^ * l re ® umed offensive operaThe Germans announce that throu gkout the night, ing to plan. operations have proceeded accordNeither side gives many details but TKp T' c .i . correspondent says that all Jr.f * Times Stockholm the Kharkov battle i. enteL« or rf' 0 ! sh ° W3 that interesting stage. It is clear V entered, the most developments of the past acr"^ 0 "^ 1 ' if the not according to the German nlan It ° T bT B *1° P y Were which the Germans did no, pUn'.nd'did To? If"'' would S b n e a a"":ij ng r erman Vic r j '' Which - sumr-er offensive to the Caucasu eri T' an setback, delaying the months. A Russian vi. Tory would be a C W jV. P r °bably for has been the scale of thfs n™l j German disaster, so large been the German material and r° nge ~a t 's° nu merous have Donetz region, whTrethe G1 n the southe ™ drive eastwards. The a f a declared that their summer P lTn 9 were unafF^^k" 8 U re Pf at 1 d| y but recently they hav'e that 400,000 Russians 'o? Graveyard of German Tanks r i,, B d c 't u ;rtrKha4t:;:r:LTd^r;: n :hrR ,oped and large Russian forces are seriously menaced Except thlTo 3 " 3 "° salient. south of Kharkov, which would be enveloped Bock managed to drive home a wedge to Isyum The Rm admit that von Bock at first managed to le a rather we ge into the Russian positions and that repeated assaults earned h.s foremost tanks perilously near the river but le Russian anti-tank weapons and ordinary artillery destroved tK*. intruders and pressed the wedge outwards. enti reS"Tt' h hrR r ' he ° rißi r' Rus r n Wn entirely restored. Ihe Russians refer to the Barvenkova-Isvum "h C ,°vo°n R VT" 'u ,h J heaVy Germa " »«<"*•• showing t"! Bock not abandoned his purpose despite the (act German tanks. h " b «» graveyard of hundred, of as bauTe London - ■»""»»« "P the position . . b f ttle Of the Ukraine enters its third week are of th» opinion that one of the war's most important strategical victories hang. « the balance. If the German flank attack on Isyum Is the 1 Dni°n U kr* WiU be * P osition to sweep on to he Dnieper. If the German attack succeeds Marshal TimoanT\h' r aVC t0 ta i<■£ ? distance from the Caucasus German s «« hkely immediately to drive to

2?^R hC late T ! y i^ C ° W c °mmunique states that the German battl DlV,Sl ° n^ as been withdrawn from the Kharkov battle, after losing over half ,ts machines and with many others front h«v- Pa,rß ' J , \ nS - ° n BCVeral 9ectors of the Kharkov front, having consolidated their positions, have been engaged in offensive operations. Heavy fighting continues in the Isyumbarvenkova region with enemy tank, and infantry.