NAZI RETREAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1941, Page 5

NAZI RETREAT

NORTH-WEST OF MOSCOW BECOMING DISORDERLY. RUSSIAN PENETRATION ADMITTED. LONDON, December 29. The German radio admits a a break through by Soviet cavalry at one point on the Russian battlefront, stating that the Russians succeeded in penetrating an advanced German covering point. In six days the Russians have liberated 106 villages from the invaders. A Tass Agency report states that there is no indication that the Germans in the Kalinin area have been able to strengthen their lines. Their retreat is becoming a disorderly one. STEADY PROGRESS IN THE AREA AROUND LENINGRAD. ENEMY BEING FORCED BACK. LONDON, December 28. “The Times” Stockholm correspondent says that the besiegers of Leningrad still hold essential points, but their forward positions are being lost daily. The right half of the arc terminating at Shlusselburg and half-embracing Leningrad now appears likely to give way any day as the Russians press near the shore of Lake Ladoga and also along the Moscow-Leningrad railway, while the Leningrad garrison hammers on from within. The Germans are being severely harassed on the Moscow front, but are fighting stubborn rearguard actions covering their withdrawal in an effort to escape pinching by the Russian prongs relentlessly closing in from the Kaluga and Rjev regions. The pincer points are still 100 miles apart and. as the going is hard, it is unlikely that the Russians will be able to pocket the main part of General von Bock’s army, but a large proportion is already doomed. Enormous quantities of equipment are inextricably frozenin and thousands of German bodies are buried under the snow.