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PLAYED BY SOVIET TANKS LONG AND DESTRUCTIVE SURGES. ANNIHILATION OF ENEMY GARRISONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) LONDON, December 29. “The Times” Moscow correspondent says the Germans' are able to halt the rapid Russian advance only when they entrench strong garrisons. Elsewhere their field defences apparently are useless. The Russian tanks are quitting the roads and making long and terribly destructive lunges. The Russians' are not allowing resisting garrisons to check the advance of their tanks, whose main task is to beat down rearguards, preventing them from disengaging and counter-attacking, but the Red Army also intends to annihilate the Germans and destroy their equipment. Immediately a sufficient weight of artillery has been brought up, the garrisons are resolutely assaulted. One of the most satisfactory features of the campaign compared with that of last winter is the rapidity with which isolated strongpoints are being broken down. An example is the capture of Chertkovo, which was ringed with defended villages and strong batteries of anti-tank guns.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1942, Page 4
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