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ENEMY DEFENCE

WILTING UNDER HEAVY RUSSIAN BLOWS SOME GARRISONS BYPASSED. POSITION ON CENTRAL FRONT. LONDON, December 21. The latest Soviet communique says that attempts by the enemy last night to check the advance in the middle Don area wilted under heavy Russian blows. The Russians followed up the routed enemy forces and captured several more places. Moscow adds few more details of the battles which are being fought out in the bitter winter weather on the hills and steppes between the Don and Donetz, but the enemy’s latest losses were again heavy. In one sector the Russians surrounded a village and killed 400 of the garrison before capturing it, and in another sector they killed 1300 Germans and took much booty. The Moscow correspondent of the “News Chronicle” says that the Russians are up against strong fortifications in depth, and they have still to liquidate enemy garrisons which they have by-passed, so a slowing down of the advance is to be expected. > German counter-attacks north-west and south-west of Stalingrad have been parried. On the central front the ‘ Russians are consolidating in some sectors and in others continuing their offensive operations and meeting enemy counter-attacks. Today is M. Stalin’s 63rd birthday.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1942, Page 3

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ENEMY DEFENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1942, Page 3

ENEMY DEFENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1942, Page 3

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