GERMANS PROGRESS FURTHER SOUTH

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 263, 5 August 1942, Page 5

GERMANS PROGRESS FURTHER SOUTH

Toward The Oilfields HUGE WEIGHT STILL HELD ON DON IBy Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, August 4. The Germans yesterday continued to make progiess towaid the Caucasus, but elsewhere on the southern front they were being held. Great battles are still raging at Kletskaya, north-west.^ of Stalingrad, says the Stockholm correspondent of the ‘‘Daily. Mail. Russian reports suggest that Marshal Timoshenko is wresting the initiative from Field-Marshal von Bock in this area, and Berlin admits heavy Soviet counter-attacks. . .... The Stockholm correspondent of ‘'The limes says: Another day has passed without the Germans making palpable progress in the Don elbow or at Zymlyanskaya. The Germans have beeiv obliged to expend tremendous energy and sustain heavy casualties, but their wedges are being checked or headed off. In the south-west, though the progress to the Caucasus has been relatively easy, the Germans are sustaining heavy casualties from the Russian rearguard, particularly from the Cossacks, equipped with anti-tank guns. The Russian communique again, as in the previous tew days, reports fighting in the Kushchevka and Salsk sectors (towns respectively 50 miles south and 100 miles southeast of Rostov). The Germans claim they are well past the towns, and the Vichy news agency says that advanced German armoured forces have reached the Kuban River at a point about 60 miles east of Krasnodar and established a bridgehCadThe German official military spokesman last night called attention to the “extraordinary resources” of Russia and said that because o these the achieving of “ordinary victories” is not enough.