CONTINUED PROGRESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1943, Page 3

CONTINUED PROGRESS

v ON MANY FIGHTING FRONTS REPORTED BY SOVIET. ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS SMASHED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, January 22. A Soviet communique issued this morning states: “During last night our troops in the area of Stalingrad, south of Voronezh, in the Northern Caucasus, in the Northern Donetz, south of Lake Ladoga and in an afea on the Lower Don continued fighting in the same direction as before.” / It is pointed out in London that the Capture of Voroshilovsk opens the way to Armavir by a road crossing the Kuban River. From Armavir a branch railway runs to Tuapse. A supplementary Moscow communique says the Germans were dislodged from more strongly fortified positions in the Stalingrad area and enemy counter-attacks failed. The enemy in one sector attempted to stem the advance by concentrating a considerable force of infantry, but Russian tanks, manned by automatic riflemen, bypassed the positions and attacked successfully from the rear. Seven hundred prisoners were taken and much booty was captured. On the south-

west front the enemy threw reserves into the battle, but they were repelled and one battalion was annihilated. Prisoners report huge losses suffered on this front.