KEEPING ENEMY PENNED UP

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 105, 28 January 1943, Page 5

KEEPING ENEMY PENNED UP

Voronezh Triumph Not Over Yet

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received January 27, 7 p.m.) LONDON", January 26. Reports from Moscow say that the Red Army is continuing its drive in the Voronezh urea, capturing more territory and not permitting' the enemy forces to break away. The advance is apparently westward toward Kastornoye and Kursk, and south-westward toward Byelgorod and Kharkov.. According to Vichy radio, snowstorms are raging south of Voronezh, where bitter fighting is in progress. On the north Caucasian plains the fall of Byelayn Glina, the capture of which was announced last night, represents a Russian advance of 50 miles from Salsk. , Along almost every sector of the wide-flung front from Voronezh southward the Germans appear to be unable to stop the Russian advance, and the threats to Hitler’s main basts Kharkov. Kursk and Rostov —grow more acute as the Red Army advances, mopping up isolated groups of the enemy and continually loosening the German defences. Soviet reinforcements moving up through the smoke-filled streets of burning Voronezh, are passing long files of Gelman prisoners. The Russians have reached a point 65 miles east of Kharkov, while the troops which have reconquered the regions of the lower Don, the oal and the Kuban steppes are rapidly closing in on Kropotkin and Tikhoretsk, They are within 35 miles of both places, increasing the peril of encirclement and threatening the Germans ou the shores of the Sea of Azov. Satellites Fate. The “Red Star," discussing the heavy losses of the Rumanians and Hungarians, says that out of 13 divisions the Hungarians have lost, nine, representing halt of the Hungarian Army, and the Rumanians in the last two months have lost lo out of 22 divisions, leaving only five or six divisions inside Rumania. General Denisov, drawing attention to the Luftwaffe’s troubles, says it is Buttering from a shortage of men trained for winter fighting. The German planes are not built to withstand the Russian winter and manv. unable to take ott, are captured by the Russians. \ The numerically superior Red An Force is continually attacking the fleeing German troops and hammering their retreating transport.