SEVERE PRESSURE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1942, Page 3

SEVERE PRESSURE

ADMITTED BY GERMANS IN CENTRE & NORTH HEAVY SOVIET LAND & AIR. ATTACKS. BEARING ON SOUTHERN CONFLICT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 13. According to the Berlin radio, the Russians are using four or five armies against the Germans at Rzhev. “The German soldiers there know that on their resistance depends our success in the south.\ They are fighting and dying where they stand, and others fill the gaps. The firing never ceases, and bombing goes on continuously. There is scarcely a piece of earth which does not show signs of battle,” the radio said. The Germans on the central front have suffered a severe setback in fighting for an important township.. The Russians attacked the township on Friday, and the Germans counter-at-tacked yesterday with 90 tanks. They lost 49 tanks and a large number of troops. The Russians also gained a tactically-important village and bridgehead, ensuring progress in a neighbouring sector. Moscow reports that in one sector of the central front fighting for an important locality took place. Eighteen enemy tanks were destroyed and more than 1000 enemy troops killed. The Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph” says the Russians attacking the Sinyavino area, south of Leningrad, have smashed through the first and second German defence zones and caotured a number of fortified villages. ' The Russians are fighting fiercely in order to relieve Leningrad before the winter. The Stockholm correspondent of “The Times” reports that forces inside and outside the beleaguered Leningrad area are participating in the Russian offensive on the, Volkhov front. The Russians within the Leningrad area do not appear to be lacking guns and munitions. The great Kirov armament works has been busy manufacturing from its large stocks of materials and also from the supplies which were brought in across Lake Ladoga and by plane.

DECIDED SUCCESSES

GAINED BY RUSSIANS IN EAST CAUCASUS ENEMY SOUTH OF TEREK WIPED OUT. LITTLE CHANGE IN STALINGRAD AREA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) RUGBY, September 14. Moscow messages report a decided. Russian success in the Mosdok area, where, following upon a ten days’ German offensive, the Red Army counter-attacked and practically wiped out the enemy forces on tne south bank of the Terek River and now is pressing on to the north bank. The Germans are fiercely resisting and are bringing up reinforcements. There is little change in the Stalingrad area, where the Russians are holding firm, though they have been compelled to give ground slightly southwest of the city. In the Sinyavino area the Russians broke enemy resistance in one locality and occupied it, after inflicting 1,000 casualties. All German counter-at-tacks here were repelled.