RACE FOR CROPS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 169, 20 July 1942, Page 4

RACE FOR CROPS

ON FERTILE PLAINS

Valiant Rearguards Foil 4 X ' S Pincers' Efforts United Press Association.—Copyright. Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, July 19. The Russians in the Voronezh area are straining every nerve to throw back the Germans across the Don, and the enemy on this front is definitely pinned down. It is another story south of Millerovo, in the eastern Ukraine, where the Germans hold the upper ha*.d, despite the stiffening of Russian resistance.

Router's Moscow correspondent says the original German spearhead y.. . thrust southwards after the fall of Millerovo has been broadened into a wide front on both sides of tne main Voronezh-Rostov railway. Many towns and villages have been nurned, some as a result of the Luftwaffe terror raids. Mtllor°vo is a good base from which to threaten different points of the Russian southern front. The Germans here have concentrated masses of aircraft, men and materials and have already thrust out exploratory units.

Little i- known of the German move south-eastwards from Millel'ovo. which could open the war into the fu tile grain plains to Stalingrad, vhera the peasants arc racing to pat her in the harvests. German attempts to cut off the retreating Russian forces have been thwarted l\v the Russian rearguards' valiant delaying actions under intense preset U'O.