WANTED BY THE GERMANS IN RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1941, Page 5

WANTED BY THE GERMANS IN RUSSIA

“Pravda” Says They Are Getting It SOVIET TROOPS INFLICTING TERRIBLE CASUALTIES SOME ENEMY FORCES ENCIRCLED LONDON, December 14. The German invaders of Russia now frankly admit that they have lost the initiative. Apart from references to shelling in the Leningrad area and at Sebastopol, an enemy communique speaks only of Russian attacks being’ repelled. , The “Pravda” sums up the situation by saying: lhe Nazis wanted a war of extermination. They are getting it. It is stated that the Russian troops are inspired to press on and smash the enemy without respite. In the Yelets area alone, 200 miles south of Moscow, the Germans have been driven out of more than 400 towns and villages. . The Germans are also being driven out of positions m the Leningrad zone and in the Donetz basin the Russians are following’ up their successes and consolidating their gains. The “Red Star” says German troops and equipment are being hurriedly evacuated from the most northerly sector of the Kalinin front. Further south, the Russians are battling furiously with the German rearguard and are cutting off lines of retreat and inflicting terrible casualties on the enemy. In a number of areas the Russians are encircling the Germans and firing on them from all sides. In the Tula sector the Russians are still advancing from the west. In a village 30 miles north-east of Tula there' is evidence of the hurried flight of the enemy, heavy guns beingabandoned at the gates of a town. An Italian official news agency in Budapest states that a Hungarian motorised brigade from the southern sector of the Russian front has‘returned to Hungary.