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RUSSIAN ADVANCE ON ROSTOV

In Spite of Hard Fighting All the Way POWERFUL GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK SMASHED IN LOWER DON AREA BIG BATTLE IN PROGRESS ON CENTRAL FRONT LONDON, January 10. The Russians are advancing as quickly as ever towards Rostov and in the Caucasus, but are having to fight hard for every mile of the way. In the Lower Don area, the Russians have advanced another eight miles, after smashing the biggest German counter-attack yet launched. Into this the enemy threw 100 tanks and an infantry division. After an all-day battle the enemy was put to flight and the Russians broke through his defence line and captured a number of villages. Further south, the Soviet forces have advanced 40 miles beyond Kotelnikovo and are only 30 miles from Salsk. . . Far to the rear of this Russian drive the German divisions hemmed in near Stalingrad are fighting stubbornly to try to hold off Soviet attacks. All their links with their rear have been severed once and for all, a Russian spokesman states. The German forces, he added, are still strong and well provided with munitions, behind heavy fortifications, but they are suffering heavy losses day by day. , In the Caucasus, the Russians are threatening a. railway town, towards which they are driving along the line from Mozdok and also along a branch line. They threw the Germans out of a strongly fortified village. . In the Caucasus, the Russians are driving in on Georgievsk along two lines of railway, one of them from Mozdok. On the central front a big battle which began four days ago is still in full ,swing J . This is probably sputh-west of Velikiye Luki, where the Germans sent in large tank forces in an effort to regain lost ground. Fierce fighting is also reported west of Rzhev.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1943, Page 3

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RUSSIAN ADVANCE ON ROSTOV Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1943, Page 3

RUSSIAN ADVANCE ON ROSTOV Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1943, Page 3

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