MADE ON FORTY MILE FRONT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1943, Page 3

MADE ON FORTY MILE FRONT

In Area West of Kharkov MASS ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS FURTHER SOUTH BERLIN REPORTS NEW SOVIET OFFENSIVE IN MOSCOW SECTOR LONDON, February 24. The Red Army has made a further advance to the west of Kharkov. Soviet troops which captured Lebedin yesterday have driven forward beyond the town on a forty-mile front and have captured two German strongpoints. The Russian spearhead is now 160 miles from Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine. Though the Russians still have a. long way to go before they reach this great city, the territory between is overrun with Russian patriots, who are interfering effectively with German communications. Further north, near Orel, Soviet troops are now within 20 miles of this important base. In the Donetz Basin area, mass enemy counter-attacks are holding up the Russian attempt to narrow the enemy’s escape gap from the Basin. Further south, near the western tip of the Kuban Country, the Russians are steadily pressing the remnants of the German Caucasian army back to the sea. The Berlin radio announces that a new Russian offensive started on Monday south-west of Moscow. The attack, it is stated, was made in great force but Berlin claims, as usual, that the Russians were beaten back.