CONTINUED GAINS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1942, Page 3

CONTINUED GAINS

MADE BY RUSSIANS RED ARMY SWEEPING ON. IN SPITE OF DESPERATE COUNTER- ATTACKS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.47 a.m.) RUGBY, January 13. The Soviet midday war communique merely states: “Active operations by our troops continued in a number of sectors of the front.” Reports reaching London from different sources, however, show renewed activity near the Valdai Hills, to the south of Leningrad. Authoritative quarters in London said there was every reason to believe that our Russian Allies were continuing to make good progress. The only recent news of fighting in the Crimea is contained in a Stockholm report which suggests that the Soviet forces which landed at Eupatoria and Theodosia are trying to establish contact.

Messages from Kuibyshev say the Soviet advance on the western front is increasing behind new lines. In the last three days. 157 settlements have 1

been recaptured on the western front and an important city has been encircled by Soviet troops. In the course of the encirclement, two enemy regiments and a large group of tanks were trapped. In spite of desperate counterattacks by the Germans, the Red Army is sweeping on.