BATTLE FOR KHARKOV
Russian Shock Troops Within Eight Miles of City ENEMY DEFENSIVE SYSTEM PIERCED LONDON, January 15. Marshal Timoshenko’s shock troops were tonight within eight miles of Kharkov, says the Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Express.” The city’s defence line has been broken and the Germans are desperately resisting in the university quarter. The Russians engaged the German advance guard at Chuguyev. Thousands of Germans died in a savage battle, after which the Russians pressed on through the enemy defensive system of zig-zag trenches and wire entanglements, a zone in which all barns and peasants’ cottages were reinforced and transformed into pillboxes bristling with machine-guns. The Russians have now brought up heavy artillery and are blasting the German positions to atoms. The Germans are unable to construct new lines nearer Kharkov, because the ground is frozen. Excavation is possible only by using dynamite. Cossack cavalry and ski units with tommy-guns are attacking strongposts one after another. A second Russian column is exerting a pressure on the German defences north-east of Kharkov.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1942, Page 3
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172BATTLE FOR KHARKOV Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1942, Page 3
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