STRONG RESISTANCE
TO ADVANCE TO SMOLENSK ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS. SOVIET SUCCESS IN SURPRISE THRUST. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) RUGBY, March 16. A Moscow message states that the Red Army, advancing in the direction of Smolensk, has met counter-attacks by panzers, infantry and artillery and faces formidable fortifications. Red Army troops made a surprise appearance far south of Viazma, where they captured the railway station of Milyatinsky Zavod, on the Viazma-Briank railway. This is about 8 miles north of Briansk and is the closest the Soviet troops have approached to this vital enemy stronghold. ENEMY LOSSES ON THE SOUTHERN FRONT. The Moscow representative of the Columbia Broadcasting System reports that the Germans in the last two weeks have lost 66,000 in killed in the fighting in the Kharkov and Donetz Basin areas, and that 2700 tanks have been destroyed or disabled and 455 German planes shot down over the whole front during the same period.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1943, Page 3
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