LIMITED RETREAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1942, Page 3

LIMITED RETREAT

MADE BY THE RUSSIANS

IN ONE SECTOR OF SALSK REGION . HEAVY ENEMY ATTACKS DRIVEN OFF. , (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day( 9.15 a.m.) RUGBY, August 4. The Russian troops have retreated to new positions in one sector of the Salsk region, according to an official Soviet report, although heavy enemy attacks in this area have been driven off. . Around Kushchevskaya enemy attempts to cross the river failed. Judging by German claims, the place where they have broken through is westward of Salsk, in a southerly direction, towards the middle course of the Kuban River. ENEMY CLAIMS KUBAN RIVER REACHED. INDUSTRIAL TOWN TAKEN. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, August 4. A German communique claims that, east of the Sea of Azov, a German division has broken the resistance of Russian rearguards and that mobile army and storm troop units, in a daring advance, reached the Kuban River at several points. The Germans, it is added, captured the industrial town of Voroshilovsk (Stavropel), after stiff street fighting. It is claimed also that Germans and Rumanians, between the rivers Sal and Don, are advancing further eastward with undiminished vigour. The Vichy radio says a German motorised unit intercepted lorries evacuating equipment from the Krasnodar electric power station eastward. TURKISH TROOPS MOVED TO THE SOVIET BORDER. LONDON, August. 4. , The Istanbul correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says that moderate-sized Turkish reinforcements have gone to the Soviet border (on the south-west-ern Caucasus).