PROGRESSING WELL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1942, Page 4

PROGRESSING WELL

RUSSIANS IN UKRAINE & ELSEWHERE HOLD ON KERCH PENINSULA UNSHAKEN. MOUNTING ENEMY LOSSES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) RUGBY, February 4. The Russian advance is believed in London to be progressing well in the north and central sectors and in the Ukraine, while the Russian hold on the Kerch Peninsula has not been shaken by the loss of Theodosia. The Soviet High Command announces the continuance last night of operations against the Germans. A supplementary report states: “In one part of the central front, one of our units, in fierce fighting with the retreating enemy, in one day killed 130 Germans, destroyed one transport column, two ammunition dumps and

some anti-aircraft batteries and captured many horses. In another part, on February 2, our troops repulsed an attack by a reinforced enemy regiment. The enemy left over a hundred killed. In one part of the Leningrad front, the enemy lost about 800 killed. Our troops destroyed sixteen pillboxes and dugouts, two guns, six machineguns, three mortars and forty lorries. Soviet air units on the north-west front, from December 20 to February 3, destroyed 767 lorries with troops and army supplies; about 300 wagons, 21 field guns, 13 anti-aircraft batteries and six ammunition dumps and ; dispersed 3,500 men.