NAZIS BAFFLED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 July 1942, Page 4

NAZIS BAFFLED

TFT’AQWJS FOVIET STAND R~PELL~D. ENEMY DRIVING SOUTH. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. Noon.) LONDON. July IG. With the Voronezh prize almost within their grasp, the Germans are being baffled again and again. The Russians are fighting with amazing tenacity. The “Pravda” says: “Our troops, ejecting groups of Germans from strong points in one street, completely cleared German pressure against the city from the north. The Russians elsewhere are strongly counter-attack-ing and thwarting German attempts to encircle the city. The most acute threat continues from its south, where the Third Hungarian Corps, supported by a huge number of tanks, is hammering at the Russian positions guarding a small river flowing into the Don River.” The “Red Star” says: “Despite all their efforts, the Germans are not making progress on the Voronezh front. They have been pushed 'back to some of the Don crossings and forced to take the defensive. Other German attempts to bypass Voronezh City and cross the Voronej River failed.” The Rome radio claimed that the centre of Voronezh City had been captured. It said the Russians fought from 'every corner and from , every house before they were routed. Reuter’s Moscow correspondent reported that German forces, after capturing Millerovo, are now driving southward. Von Bock is seemingly attempting to isolate Voroshilovgrad, which is already menaced from die south and also to gain a foothold on the Stalingrad Railway. The German bulge between Millerovo and Boguchar is seriously threatening Stalingrad itself. A German spokesman declared that all the Russian key positions on the Donetz loop had been breached and the Russians oh the south front completely separated from those on the north front, and that the German armies were now on the threshold of the steppes. The Tass’ Agency stated that successive German attacks in the past 24 hours against an inhabited locality on the Kalinin front had been rolled back with enormous losses. Russian counterblows, it is added, have completely halted the Germans on the Bryansk front, where the Germans are hastily reinforcing and are believed to be preparing for large-scale action. Tire Russian Baltic Fleet Air Arm in three days sank three gunboats, a patrol boat and a transport, and damaged a torpedo-boat, two gunboats and six patrol ships. Northern Fleet Air Arm pilots sank two convoyed transports.

GERMAN PROGRESS REPORTED BY VICHY. (Received This Day, Noon.) > LONDON. July 16. „ The Vichy radio says the German Fourth Army reached Stalino and Kamenskay last night. German tanks advancing along the Stalino-Kamens-kay railway, it is added, reached Sverovo, on the Moscow-Rostov Railway. The’German push on the Don front has slowed down. SOVIET INTIMATION INITIATIVE TAKEN IN SOME SECTORS. ENEMY ON DEFENSIVE. LONDON, July 16. A Soviet communique states that the initiative is being taken by the Russians in some sectors. The Germans are on the defensive in these sectors. ____