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SIEGE OF RZHEV

NOW IN FULL SWING SOVIET RESERVES REACH LENINGRAD AREA. ENEMY RING BEING THINNED DOWN. LONDON, February 7. Russian forces strengthened by new reserves and using heavy tanks have launched a vigorous new drive against the Germans near Leningrad. The supplement to today's Moscow communique speaks of numerous successful mopping-up operations by Soviet units on the Leningrad front. General Zhukov’s forces have entirely surrounded Rzhev, whose siege is now in full swing. Violent battles are in progress at the eastern and western approaches to the city, and the Russian infantry are capturing pillboxes one after another, in spite of a deluge of artillery and machine-gun fire. Rzhev’s food is running short and German planes are obliged to run the gauntlet of Russian fighters and antiaircraft fire in order to drop packets of concentrated food into the town. Fresh Russian reserves have reached the Leningrad front, where the enemy ring is being thinned down daily. The enemy lost 1500 men killed in one battle. PROGRESS IN SOUTH. The “Daily Telegraph's” Stockholm correspondent says the Russians have occupied Petropavlovka, on the river Samara, sixty' miles east of Dnepropetrovsk. The Russian progress northward and southward of Kharkov seems to be developing satisfactorily. Cavalry infiltration here is playing a . useful part and guerillas are aiding cavalry in operations over country which is far from the recognised routes. Guerillas are also successfully raiding communications in the rear of the German positions at Kursk. The Moscow radio reports freshRussian successes in the advance toward Smolensk. The enemy is offering fierce resistance but has been obliged to fall back under the repeated Russian blows. The Russian news gives- the impression that operations are in progress for squeezing the Vyazma salient outward toward Smolensk. This seemingly is preferred to a large enveloping movement from north and south, which appears to be beyond the Russian powers owing to the winter conditions.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1942, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
314

SIEGE OF RZHEV Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1942, Page 3

SIEGE OF RZHEV Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1942, Page 3

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