BOLD ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1942, Page 3

BOLD ATTACKS

BY DON & KUBAN COSSACKS

HELPING TO HOLD ENEMY 1 IN CHECK.

TRANSFER OF GERMAN DIVISIONS

(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, August 3. Soviet reports make it evident that the German advance southward of Rostov is being stubbornly contested. Don and Kuban Cossacks made bold counter-at-tacks yesterday. Enemy columns were also raided by long-range dive-bombers. The Germans are still attacking in the regions of Zymlyanskaya, where the Russians have checked an attempted advance south-eastward, and at Kletskaya, where they maintain their positions inside the Don elbow. With reference to the reports that German divisions have been transferred to the Eastern front from France and the Low Countries during the last few months, it is once more pointed out in London that there is no evidence of any reduction in the total strength of the German forces in Western Europe. The Germans, it is believed, use France as a place for regrouping and resting divisions before transferring them to the East and there are about 25 divisions in Occupied France and the Low Countries. The English Press in these days reflects the general public desire that an attack should be made in Western Europe as soon as possible by British armies, reinforced by the American troops now gathering in Britain. The “News-Chronicle” say it is a matter for decision, not merely when Anglo-American military strength will have reached the highest stage of preparation for striking, but the moment when the military strength of ' the United States, Great Britain and Russia, considered as a single whole/ will be in the optimum condition to inflict damage on the enemy. No one imputes lack of desire and intention to help Russia to those on either side of the Atlantic who have this momentous decision to take.