NOW IN NORTH CAUCASIAN REGION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1942, Page 4

NOW IN NORTH CAUCASIAN REGION

According to Soviet Army Paper GERMANS PILING UP REINFORCEMENTS ENEMY BEING PRESSED BACK AT VORONEZH (By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 19. The initiative at Voronezh is now entirely in Russian hands,” says the “Izvestia.” The Germans are trying to rush reinforcements across the Don, but Russian artillery yesterday wiped out a whole infantry regiment attempting to cross south of Voronezh. , The “Pravda” says the Germans in the Voronezh area ana south of Voronezh are being slowly but continually pressed back westward. The Germans are laying minefields, throwing up barbed wire entanglements, cutting roads, turning every stone house into a strongpoint and burying tanks in the ground. The Russians have flung them out of three inhabited localities in one sector on the eastern bank of the Don. The “Red. Star says: “The centre of gravity of the German offensive is now in the North Caucasian region. Fighting is going on over a wide area. The Germans are still piling in reinforcements, looking for weak spots and trying to break through and attack us from the rear. Abdurate resistance in the face of great numerical superiority is defeating breakthrough attempts. The Germans here possess so large a force that only the strongest defence, with powerful counter-blows can hope to arrest the German advance.