Nazi Attacks Still Being Frustrated

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 167, 17 July 1942, Page 5

Nazi Attacks Still Being Frustrated

VORONEZH STRUGGLE

Baffled Again And Again By Amazing Russian Tenacity

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Wirh tk v t LONDON, July 16. With the Voronezh, prize almost within their srasn th* fighhngUth ama n z g ing a^achy ain ag * in * ™ been completely cleared of German,. The pre,.urn ar'n't the city from the north ha, weakened slightly, and the Russians here ?o r %Sf,h: o e^ , ' a^ aCking *" d ' h 4" in « attempu 1 y i m ° St acute threat continues from the south, where the 3rd Hungarian Corps, supported by a huge number of tanks, is hammering the Russian positions guarding a small river flowing into the Don River." guarding a

their effortfthe C military journal, says that despite all front Thiv l! v^T" 3118 ar u ju makin g Progress on the Voronezh front, I r»ey have been pushed back to some of the Don crossings to bv°MM V° take / he defe " sive at others. The German attempt to bypass Voronezh city and cross the Voronezh River has failed. t j u he Kome radio claimed that the centre of Voronezh citv and tr,T U "l l"'f th< \ Russian » f ° u ß>" from every corner ana from every house before they were routed. ™. tCr - a M IS?n OW corres P° nde nt reported that German forces, after capturing Millerovo, are now driving southward. Von Bock att "" ipt,n * }° iso ] at « Voroshilovgrad, which is already J "f w u 6 » outh , and also gain a foothold on the Stalingrad railway. The German bulge between Millerovo and Boguchar ft* seriously threatening Stalingrad itself.

9 ™ an ® poke ® man declared that all the Russian key pos tions in the Donetz loop have been breached, that the Russian r* 18 com P lete, y separated from the north front, and that the Lerman armies are now on the threshold of the Steppes. ♦U . agenc y Btated that successive German attacks in h°ur. agamst an inhabited locality on the Kalinin front were rolled back with enormous losses. Russian counterblows have completely halted the Germans on the Bryansk front, where the Germans are hastily reinforcing and are believed to be preparing for large-scale action.