OFFENSIVE MOVES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1942, Page 4

OFFENSIVE MOVES

CONTINUED BY RUSSIAN FORCES CONSIDERABLE BOOTY CAPTURED. PROGRESS IN SEVERAL AREAS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 9.53 a.m.) RUGBY, January 28. A continuance of offensive operations is reported in a Soviet communique which adds: “In one sector on the central front our units, commanded by General Kharitonov, have driven the enemy from one place where the enemy left on the battlefied 350 killed or wounded. In another sector two of our units repulsed an attack of three German companies, supported by tanks. The enemy left oh the battlefield over one hundred killed. “On the southern front, in one day. our troops occupied forty places and captured considerable booty, including one tank, seven guns and seventy lorries. One of our ski detachments covered 200 kilometres in the enemy’s rear, capturing three tanks, one armoured car, six guns and 150 lorries.” SMASHING ON VICTORIOUS RUSSIAN ARMY. SEVENTY-NINE MORE TOWNS CAPTURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.41 p.m.) LONDON, January 28. The Russians have captured seventynine more towns and are smashing on north-west and south-west of z Moscow, say the Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. They are on the threshold of the double defence line to which the Germans are retreating, which comprises two lines of defence works 1| miles apart and apparently running from Velikie Luki to the region of Viazma, and thence to a point near Bryansk. It is already threatened on both flanks.