MADE BY THE RUSSIANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1943, Page 4

MADE BY THE RUSSIANS

Towns Taken on Approaches to Kharkov GUNS POUNDING ROSTOV SUBURBS VILLAGE NEAR CITY CAPTURED (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, February 9. . The Russians have captured Byelgorod and are battering at the gates of Rostov and Kharkov. Tonight’s special Moscow communique states that the Russians, commanded by Lieuten-ant-General Moskelonko, after stubborn fighting, occupied the town and rail junction of Byelgorod and also the town of Shobokino, 18 miles south-jvest of Byelgorod. Reuter’s Moscow correspondent says the deadly 76-milli-metre guns, which ground Paulus’s army to powder, are pounding the Rostov suburbs, stretching twenty miles along the north'bank of the mile-wide Don. The Russians have captured a village on the. approaches to the city. The Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Express’’ says Russian siege guns have begun shelling German positions extending many miles around Kharkov. Stormoviks are blitzing roads and railways, to. prevent the incoming of reinforcements and preparing the way for an assault, for which five Russian columns are massing, some only twenty miles distant. The Russians are simultaneously menacing- Orel and Bryansk.