German Hordes Continue Advance

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 175, 27 July 1942, Page 3

German Hordes Continue Advance

BATTLE FOR DON BRIDGES

Furious Retaliation Fails To Halt Nazi Columns

(United Press Association.--Copyright.-Rec. 1 p . m .)

xv c u • LONDON, July 26. The fighting at Tsymlyanskaya has assumed a yet graver aspect, says a Moscow message. The Germans have overcome two fortified Russian positions. A terrific struggle for crossings on he Don continues day and night. The Germans, using tanks artillery and violent dive-bombing, are attempting to paralyse the Russian on the southern bank. The Russian Air Force is retaliating boldly, engaging in dog-fights over the Don, but the Germans have concentrated enormous masses of planes. Russian Ce n r 9 man against overwhelming German mechanised forces. They have smashed a score of German pontoon crossings, and shot up rafts and flimsy boats made of wood and rubber in which the Germans are trying to force the Don They drowned more than 1000 and scattered many more, but the German Hordes keep coming, and the position has become worse in the past 48 hours.

»U T^ C Vlclly ra . d, ° r r e P° rts that severe fighting is going on at e 7 lty o L ? elb ° W * Where tHe Germa ns are advancing towards Ostrokyanskaya and Platishanskaya, on the west bank of the Don opposite Stalingrad. The German offensive Ld. c°ZL a . p on a wide fron '' but an advan " ° f

The German communique states that south and east of Rostov crossings were forced over the Don, and Russian attempts to b»k oT,S n . Don'had "ailtd '° Uth -'"