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GRIPPED & MENACED

GERMAN SOUTHERN ARMIES PROBLEMS OF ESCAPE FROM DONETZ HEAVY LOSSES INEVITABLE. PARTICULARLY OF HEAVY EQUIPMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, February 15. While the fall of Kharkov apparently is imminent, the Russians have begun a pincer movement designed to entrap the Germans eastward of a line between Stalino and Mariupol. Russian columns which captured Krasnoarmeysk are advancing towards the Sea of Azov. Powerful Red Armies, freed from Rostov, are thrusting towards Taganrog.

Moscow correspondents emphasise that the disintegration of the Germans in the Donetz Basin at present is more spectacular even than the struggle for Kharkov. The German armies in the south are being compressed and menaced by another Stalingrad debacle. Their only way of escape is being hourly restricted. A German retreat in this region must be along the coast road to Taganrog, or by a circuitous single track railway via Stalino or the Dneiper, both of which either the Red Air Force is constantly bombing or long-range artillery is bombarding. A proportion of the Germans will certainly escape, but the Nazis must abandon immense quantities of heavy equipment. The German News Agency’s military commentator, Captain Sertorious, broadcasting tonight, confessed that not only had Rostov and Voroshilovgrad been evacuated, but the whole area between them. “The new German line,” he said, "is two-thirds shorter than the old.”

Besides the growing threat to Kharkov, whence the Russians are five miles distant, General Golikov’s men, after the capture of Kursk, are steadily working westward. Furthermore, the Germans are nervous regarding ,a renewed ' Russian thrust on the central sector.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1943, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
263

GRIPPED & MENACED Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1943, Page 4

GRIPPED & MENACED Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1943, Page 4

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