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MADE BY RUSSIAN ARMIES IN CAUCASUS Railway Junction of Salsk Taken NEW OFFENSIVE OPENED NORTH OF VORONEZH DEVELOPING MENACE TO ENEMY SOUTHERN FORCES LONDON, January 22. Salsk, a big railway junction in the Northern Caucasus, through which passes much of Hitler’s supplies for his southern armies, has been captured, by Soviet trops. Salsk is about 100 miles south-east of Rostov and its capture makes the position of Hitler’s armies in the Caucasus more than ever precarious. The Soviet forces which captured it are those which drove down south of the Don along the railway from Kotelnikovo. Earlier news tonight stated that a big new Soviet offensive is developing in the area just north of Voronezh. Reuter’s Moscow correspondent says the new Russian attack is in progress somewhere to the north-west of Voronezh and is aimed at the railway junction of Krastornoe, where many important railway lines intersect. Official news from Moscow so far has nothing to say about the operations, but an earlier German radio statement said a Soviet offensive north of Voronezh was expected. 1 Nearer to Rostor, Soviet columns which have crossed the **Donetz River are now thrusting down towards the town of Likhava. These forces comprise the left flank of a pincer movement which is threatening the big German armies in the Donetz basin. The western pincer is gradually converging on the industrial city of Voroshilovgrad, 50 miles to the west. At the southern end of the front, south-east of Salsk, the Soviet forces which yesterday captured Voioshilovsk, have made more progress towards Armavir. Armavir is quite close to the enemy-occupied Maikop oilfield and is the main railway centre for the transport of the oil. . Back in the Stalingrad area the Russians are reducing still further the trapped Axis army outside the city. One message says 2,000 more Germans have been killed in the last 24 hours. A fierce battle developed when the Russians attacked enemy positions in a big market square. The Germans put up a strong resistance but the Russians finally overwhelmed them. Berlin admits that the Russians have driven a breach into the German lines from the west.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1943, Page 3
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