BOLD FIGHTERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1942, Page 4

BOLD FIGHTERS

DON & KUBAN COSSACKS OFTEN STOPPING PANZER THRUSTS. ENEMY CHECKED AT MOST POINTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, August 4. The Russians, according to the “Red Star,” have checked the Germans on nearly all sectors of the southern front except the Salsk area. The resistance of the Don and Kuban Cossacks is particularly strong and is successfully beating back German tank and infantry attacks in most of the North Caucasus sectors. These famous horsemen dash across the steppes, sabres drawn, boldly outflank German armoured forces, and charge the supporting infantry, while others tackle the tanks direct, with antitank rifles. These tactics are repeatedly stopping dangerous panzer thrusts. Rumanian cavalry has been thrown in in the Kushchovsk area, in an attempt to deal with the Cossacks. The Russians yesterday repulsed many attacks and villages changed hands several times. The Germans made no significant progress and the Russians in the Salsk area are waging stubborn defensive battles. The Vichy radio declared that the main German forces south of Rostov are now thirty miles from the middle reaches of the Kuban River. The Germans driving south-west from Rostov have not materially progressed for some days and are engaged in mopping up powerful Russian centres of resistance between the Rostov Railway and the Sea of Azov. The Berlin radio announced that fifteen Rumanian generals and eighteen colonels had been placed on the retired list under a new decree fixing a new age limit.