SOVIET TROOPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1942, Page 4

SOVIET TROOPS

WITHDRAWN FROM ROSTOV AND FROM NOVO CHERKASSK. ENEMY SUBMARINE & TRANSPORT SUNK IN ARCTIC. LONDON, July 27. A Soviet communique announces that Rostov and Novo Cherkassk have been evacuated. In the Arctic, Russian warships have sunk an enemy submarine I and a 10,000-ton transport. ENEMY CLAIMS PROGRESS ON LOWER DON. (Received This Day, 12.27 p.m.) LONDON, July 27. According to the Berlin radio, the whole Don delta is now under German control. A German communique states that after two days’ fighting, the Germans captured by storm the stronglyfortified railway junction town of Bataisk, ten miles south of Rostov. The communique adds: “Farther eastward, our mobile forces have pushed far to the south. German and Rumanian infantry, on the great Don bend, co-operating with tanks and aircraft, repulsed the enemy and reached the river along a wide front.’’ The Vichy radio, quoting a Stockholm report, says von Bock has now established four bridegheads on the south bank of the Lower Don, one eastward and one westward of Rostov and the other two between Rostov and Zymlyanskaya.