SOVIET ACTION
PREPARED WELL IN ADVANCE DRIVE INTO ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS. DEFENDERS OF STALINGRAD CONFIDENT. LONDON, November 23. While today's Russian communique is pitched in a modest but confident tone, the Germans are much more noisy about the offensive. They say that specially in the north-west Marshal Timoshenko is hurling in division after division of tanks in a grand-scale offensive. He is using British and American tanks here for the first time,, The “Daily Express” says that this tremendous victory means that the Russians now hold a threatening position in the rear of the whole German army engaged at Stalingrad. Kalach. 40 miles west of Stalingrad, is the main German supply base. Correspondents say that the offensive was launched after a terrific artillery barrage. Preparations for the offensive were begun as long ago as September, when the German attack on Stalingrad was reaching its height. Writing before the announcement of the Russian offensive, .Reuter’s correspondent in Moscow estimates the Axis losses in the 90-day battle at Stalingrad at 150,000 killed ,and 12,000 tanks and 1500 planes destroyed. To mark the end of the first three months of the fighting the defenders have sent a letter to Premier Stalin, in which they say that, having acquired battle experience, they will deal the enemy a crushing blow similar to that which he suffered before Moscow last winter. AXIS GRAVEYARD CAUCASIAN BATTLEFIELD. GROZNY OILFIELD SAFE , FOR WINTER. . LONDON, November 22. In the Caucasus,the Russian victory near Ordzhonikidze appears to ensure the safety of the Grozny oilfields for the winter, because it is apparent that the German defeat was due to the skilful manner in which the Russians capitalised the enemy’s' winter transport difficulties. The Germans lost 150 out of 200 tanks, many of which were seized undamaged and without fuel. The difficulties in bringing up fuel across the snow and mud proved too much for the Germans. Moscow radio says that thousands of German bodies and also tanks, armoured cars and lorries twisted into heaps of broken metal litter the battlefields before Ordzhonikidze. Bodies lie thick in a recaptured village and in ravines. There are 40 common graves in one cemetery. Another village contained 40 lorries piled with dead which the Germans had been unable to bury. The “Daily Express” describes the victory as a “miniature Alamein.’< The Russians organised defences in extreme depth, manoeuvred for flank positions, and then formed an arc of fire and steel which pinned the Germans against an impassable mountain.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1942, Page 3
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