STEADY DRIVE
RUSSIANS IN LENINGRAD AREA,
FORTIFIED TOWN CAPTURED SKI TROOPS CLEAR STREETS. (N.Z. Pross Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 25. The Russians are steadily driving the Germans from the ring of satellite towns round Leningrad which the enemy had strongly fortified. Already the Germans have lost most of the main lateral railways in this sector running through Gatchina. The railway has been cut on both sides of Gatchina, and Tosno, where it joins tire Moscow line, is closely threatened. Beyond Gatchina the country is more open.
The Russian pressure is also directed to lengthening the salient in which the Germans are placed by continuing to advance from Leningrad and west of Novgorod. * The effect of any German retirement from the Volkhov river sector is thus nullified. The Moscow radio says that Tiatsi, south of Grasnoye Selo, was captured by ski troops. It was a strongly-forti-fied centre, but ski troops cut the road behind it leading to Gatchina, and then pounced in small groups on the Germans and penetrated the town, which was cleared after fierce street fighting.—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 90, 26 January 1944, Page 3
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