Furious Onslaughts In Battles On Don

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 168, 18 July 1942, Page 5

Furious Onslaughts In Battles On Don

VORONEZH STRUGGLE

Enemy Driving Forward As Russians Retreat In South

lU.P.A. and British Official Wireless—Rec. 1 p, m .) LONDON, July J7. by , efforl • 10 " ke Red Star, the Soviet mi],ta"vlournV ".l'T 8 ° f ,h ' D °"- tzLit b H'V h - e P h " d r^;r bank ' south of Bogucha"* h'avTbeTn ub" ll YT"T d from Millerovo. fife. 3^ the Vo, g a. and southward ,3 fcl^K.'tLT'o7 t°he in additicmlo driving Clt °' " d "" German,, men... The rear'uaJd. «"rni„g movevery fierce battles are raging. Kiting on stubbornly and wide^propo^r, Pa -K' j'° VCli ' " ys: "The Don battle is assuming on t£ Don«z G h»T a i? C ° mmUniqU f cla . im » "<»' Voroshilovgrad, Command puVu" oY .feT" Successful Defence Would Be Red Victory ■ at Voronezh is officially reported from Moscow to be continuing with undiminishing intensity RcrtparorV attempts to break through have failed IS tk Kepeate ? enem y Hnued to suffer heavy lossesThJ R " en ? my has con " and th-ir t.«t. k , Russians are also attacking, mtng £erm,n. »»' P>«e in pur sui, of the hold T£? °r ini ° n in 4" d ° n " ,hat if th ' Russians can continue ,0 victory M™ ??" s,Ve " wi " b e a considerable Russian •I—■ ]VIOBCO 7 P res » messages state that the Red Army is regaining some of the ground lost last week at Voronezh In ess 'Tit 9 ermans are usi "g massed armoured forces regardless of losses in an effort to smash the retreating army The Russians are holding them off, but the threat to Rostov and Stalingrad increases hourly as the Germans south and east of nave achieved numerical superiority. Stalin to Direct Defence of Stalingrad A Stockholm message says German sources quote reports from Ankara that M. Stalin has gone to Stalingrad, and wilfper is already "n St f Ch ' ef ° f the General Sta G rnenlldm , in ß™d. around which strong reinforcements of ™" . f I J ler V a J °C f i new, y- forl "ed Central Asiatic Army are shiloff", f i Was . r |P" ted, y author of Marshal Voroaiansin tVTc °' »««■« ">e White Rusre.«rv^^R:rA[my^Ulh n o, ,h'°"ffr n? "" mM ,° l of the Voronezh fronl whha°," become'mo": l"ne 01 Ztr 6 ' * advancing unit broke through the German front man-'l^ r °y«ng over 100 ant,-tank guns, then penetrated the Germans second dcfence positions. F j? htil ?* '»J" progress on both banks of the Don. with posiectors :?Th7v and 9 V*' G " ma " ad — » -ve'al enemv h, K Voro "«h front has been stopped. On others the enemy has been pushed back after suffering heavy losses.