PUSH FROM DON
Latest Reports LONDON, August 25. Today's Moscow communique admits n German advance from the bridgehead on the east bank of the Don on the Stalingrad front. Enemy infantry, supported by large numbers of tanks and planes, pressed back the Soviet forces after intense fighting. South-west of Stalingrad the enemy
have now driven a number of different wedges into the defences.
The position in the Caucasus has also rapidly deteriorated in the last 24 hours, it is stated in London. The enemy force which, as announced last night, has reached the area of Prokhladnaya, is now on the great Georgian Military Road leading to Tiflis, though still barred by the Caucasus Mountains. Today’s Moscow communique says enemy attacks here have been repulsed by Russian forces with tho support of two armoured trains. AMERICAN’S REACTION CAIRO, August 23. Major-General Maxwell, the United States envoy, who went to Moscow with Mr. Averell Harriman, said he received a most favourable impression of the Soviet’s management of the war situation. The Russians were pleased with the behaviour of the American equipment.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 281, 26 August 1942, Page 5
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179PUSH FROM DON Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 281, 26 August 1942, Page 5
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