THE KALININ FRONT

Evening Star, Issue 24291, 4 September 1942, Page 3

THE KALININ FRONT

RUSSIANS TAKE MORE VILLAGES ENEMY MAKES PROGRESS IN CAUCASUS LONDON, September 3. The Moscow correspondent of ‘The Times ’ says there is heavy fighting at many points in a great semi-circle before Moscow from Kaluga to Bryansk.' The Russians on the Kalinin front recaptured several more villages, but their advance has been slowed down by the Luftwaffe, which has been heavily reinforced. The buttle for Rjev rages on. The Germans claim that the Rjey attacks were repulsed and that Russian mass attacks were broken up on the River Urga, between Medyn and Vyazma. There have been many local clashes in the Bryansk area, where Russian troops and guerrillas hold the initiative in dense forests. Fighting again flared up on the west bank of the Don south of Voronezh. The situation has become worse in the West Caucasus, where the Germans are gradually making progress along the mountain railway from Krasnodar and the Black Sea coast. The newspaiper 1 Pravda ’ says the Germans are using alpine troops, who were trained in the Austrian mountains. Small parties of alpinists are infiltrating in the valleys, attacking strong points on tho roads and the railway. According to a Stockholm report the German drive against _ Grozny is still held up on the Terek River. The Germans admit that the “ scorched earth ” policy has been applied most intensively in the Caucasus. They claim, however, that they have received valuable information from the Japanese on methods of restoring damaged oilfields.