FLANKING ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 December 1943, Page 4

FLANKING ATTACKS

ON GERMANS IN WHITE RUSSIA RED ARMY CLEARLY MEANS BUSINESS. ENEMY SPOKESMAN TALKS OF SUPER-OFFENSIVE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, December 2. The Red Army is threatening to turn the German line in While Russia from north and south, Moscow dispatches state. While General Von Kluge’s troops are battling grimly to prevent General Rokossovsky’s forces taking Jlobin and Bobruisk, thereby turning the Germans’ southern defences, the Russians are launching attacks against Mogilev, Orsha and Vitebsk, the success of which would turn the German line from the north. The Red Army clearly means business in its northern outflanking movement against the White Russian line, as the German news agency’s commentator-, Von Hammer, indicates. He says: “West from Smolensk to Orsha, the 'Russians carried out a super-offensive with two rifle divisions, five armoured brigades, and 200 tanks. We sealed o(T local penetrations. The fighting, is really at its heaviest in this sector.