NEW OFFENSIVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1942, Page 3

NEW OFFENSIVE

OPENED BY RUSSIANS I GAINS IM SEVERAL AREAS. RETREATING NAZIS MURDERING I PEASANTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, August 28. While the Russians are continuing to adi/ance on the central front and have opened ?. counter-offen-sive near Shlusseiburg, further north they have also had a success before Stalingrad. The British Press Moscow correspondent reports that the Russians have retaken three villages in a counterattack north-west of Stalingrad. In this counter-attack the Russians cut the communications of a force which breached the Russians lines a few days ago. They are steadily wiping out the remainder of 100 tanks which were with the original force, despite determined German attempts to supply them from transport planes. The “Red Star” says the Russians in the Kletskaya area are pressing the enemy hard at many points on the Don bend. The Germans, in attempting to wrist the initiative, put in cavalry for the first time on the southern front but the Russian tanks routed them and killed 500 men. The Moscow radio states that the Russians, on the central front, repelled counter-attacks and occupied eight fortified and inhabited localities. The Germans are reported to be moving up large forces of tanks and planes in the Ryhev sector. The Russians continue to advance on the Kalinin front. The Germans are killing the inhabitants in the villages they are forced to leave. A Stockholm message reports that the Russians have begun a new coun-ter-offensive near Shlusseiburg and the Germans have only partly checked the attacks, which are continuing.