WEST OF MOSCOW
FURTHER IMPORTANT SOVIET GAINS REMNANT OF NAZI DIVISION WIPED OUT. ENEMY ADMITS BREAK THROUGH IN CAUCASUS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1 p.m.) LONDON, December 17. The “Red Star” says the German garrison at Velikiye Luki is cut off from the north-west, where the Germans have lost control of the railway leading, to Novosokolniki. The Germans lost more than a thousand men in this action. The Russians west of Rzhev wiped out the Fourteenth German Motorised Division, originally composed of 20,000 men. The Berlin radio, quoting a High Command spokesman, admitted that after a three-day battle north of Aagir, in the Caucasus, the Russians broke through the German lines'.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1942, Page 4
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