Great Air Battles Raging

Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 208, 1 September 1942, Page 5

Great Air Battles Raging

LONDON, Aug. 30. The Russians continue to make hea-. way in the central trout. They nave iia. some local successes in the Caucasus aiiu before Stalingrad. The Germans arc uoing their utmost to retain the water barriers in tne Kjev area and are rushing up tana ana i man try reserves. Terrific air battles nave ueveiopea. Tne Pravua says tnat tne Germans arc ligating tootn auu nan lor every position in the Rjev area. A fierce baitie io raging west of bubstov, wuere me Russians have occupied several new places, rue Russians in tne nortnern and normeastern outskirts of Rjev nave uisiougeu me Germans irom more pillboxes and are battling on tor every house, ragming is proceeuing in the western approaches to xtjev in open country, where me Gexxnaue nave dug tnemseives in, but tne Russians are continuing tneir metnouical progress. Moscow this afternoon reported that despite fierce German resistance the xtussians recaptured lour settlements in me FroKniaunaya-otosuok area, northwest of Grozny, m ine Caucasus. Numerous German attacks were repulsed i.i Miner sectors of tnese fronts. When tiio Russian coastal uerences on Saturday smashed, a German lanumg attempt on me Biacit bea coast sinning xo trans ports witn shells, not a single vessel wabble to anchor near the snore. The Red Star says that tne norm-westward of btaiingrad captured an .mportant unnamed town. Tne Red Armj uoops, after a tierce battle, drove the Germans from heights governing vita, roads at tne rear of the town. Other units after frontal and flank assaults pushed the Germans into the streets, where me battle was carried on until the enemy remnants were wiped out. A German communique states thai infantry and motorised units with strong air support broke through strongly-forti-fied positions in the Stalingrad area anu penetrated deeply into the Russian de -ence system.