HEROIC STAND
AGAINST MORE NUMEROUS ENEMY FORCES FRESH NAZI DIVISIONS. FROM WEST. FIERCEST BATTLES OF WAR AT KHARKOV. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, March 14. Fighting around Kharkov is still increasing in ferocity, according to a morning communique supplement and the Russian troops are herocially repelling the attacks of numerically superior enemy tank and infantry forces. The Germans are throwing in fresh divisions just arrived from Western Europe says the newspaper “Red Star.” : These have the support of masses of < tanks. It adds: “The defenders of Kharkov are giving the Reichswehr the fircest battles of the war. A number of positions are changing hands repeatedly. The Germans are trying to advance at any cost, b.ut are up against determined resistance. The fighting is especially bitter north of the city, where a German outflanking manoeuvre failed to materialise. Although the enemy has succeeded in capturing a number of settlements he has been stopped by strong Russian counter-attacks. The battle continues in this sector, with every inch of ground stubbornly contested. “A further Moscow message describes the continued bitter fighting in the Don Basin, particularly in the Izyum, area, about 70 miles south-east of Kharkov, where enemy pressure is meeting a resistance comparable with that of the defenders of Moscow. The Russian drive west and south of Viazma (some 90 miles east-north-east of Smolensk) continues with success. South of the town about twenty localities have been occupied, including the railway station of Medinsky-Zavod. South of Byeloi, too (north of Smolensk), the Russians have occupied a number of localities. The Russian aim on this front appears to be to drive wedges into the enemy’s defences, split his lines into parallel sectors and hold him under a constant threat of encirclement. The Russian pressure is heaviest along the Moscow-Minsk Highway in the direction of Smolensk.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1943, Page 3
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