FINE DEFENCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1942, Page 3

FINE DEFENCE

MAINTAINED BY SOVIET FORCES GERMAN ARMIES HAMMERED. IN BATTLES FOR BRIDGEHEADS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 27. The latest news from Moscow indicates that the Russians on the south bank of the Lower Don are hammering the advancing German armies and smashing bridgeheads across the Don. The Russian Air Force in the Zymbyanskayan area, supported by infantry and artillery, is blowing up pontoons and attacking the German infantry with bombs and cannon-fire. HEAVY PRESSURE ADMITTED IN RUSSIAN REPORTS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) RUGBY, July 27. The latest Soviet official reports are of further heavy fighting on the outskirts of Rostov, where superior German forces are constantly attacking and the Russian positions have been penetrated at one point. In the region of Zymlyanskaya bitter fighting is going on for bridgeheads. Although in some places the enemy advance has been successfully resisted, Russian forces at one place withdrew to new positions. The Russians have continued offensive operations in the Voronezh and Bryansk regions. WAR ON THE STEPPES RED PILOTS’ CHEERFUL SLANG. KUIBYSHEV, July 27. The war correspondent of “Izvestia” says: “The Germans have only a few good tank crews left from last year. This year the men are not of the same quality, and when they cannot operate in the mass they are not heroes. “Corn and grass are now high on the steppes, and the Germans are like herds in the mist. The Russian pilots have a new slang term when they set out against them. They say, ‘We are going out to graze.’ ”