RIBBONS OF FIRE
GERMAN ROADS OF RETREAT IN RUSSIA GREAT FORTIFIED SYSTEM WHOLLY LOST BY ENEMY (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, December 22. Soviet troops and cavalry have continued the mopping up of German groups routed south of Novel, says a Moscow rpessage. Roads jammed with enemy transport are converted into ribbons of fire by the treetop sweeps of Stormoviks. Fleeing from the flaming roads, German infantry retreating from Nevel to Vitebsk were scattered over the snow-covered fields and woodlands. One group, when encircled, lost 400 killed. The Germans have lost a whole system of fortifications built during the summer. Its key was a defile, 3| miles wide, between two lakes. In spite of intense artillery and mortar cross-fire, Russian troops broke through, under cover of a snowstorm, and disrupted the German front by a double manoeuvre, to the south-west and north-east. The Germans sent a picked emergency force to close the breach and surrounded the Russian troops in this area, but the enemy force was dispersed and routed piecemeal.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1943, Page 3
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174RIBBONS OF FIRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1943, Page 3
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