CAPTURE OF KURSK
ANNOUNCED BY SOVIET MOST DAMAGING BREACH IN ENEMY LINE. PROGRESS IN OTHER AREAS. Ax LONDON. February 8. THE RUSSIANS HAVE FLASHED THE NEWS OF A FURTHER VICTORY—THE CAPTURE OF THE IMPORTANT ENEMY BASE OF KURSK, A KEY SUPPLY POINT FOR THE GERMANS SINCE LAST WINTER. Kursk is on the Moscow-Orel-Khar-kov-Crimea railway, and is the hinge which links the Germans in the northern half of the front with those in the south.
The Russians also report progress south-east of Kursk, where the town of Karocha has been captured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1943, Page 3
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