Threat To Hermans In Donetz Increased

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13064, 5 February 1943, Page 5

Threat To Hermans In Donetz Increased

ASIANS DRIVE STEADILY FORWARD KU ON ALL FRONTS

i yiq EVACUATION FROM KUBAN ATTEMPTED

attack by black sea ships and AIRCRAFT

London, Feb. 4

Russians are still driving steadily forward all along the " hel . t j ie j r latest successes have considerably increased the fr ° n VTn the German armies on the Donetz front. Soviet forces have now captured the important railway .. e f Knniansk which is only 50 miles east of Kharkov. f C \ 10 correspondent states that if the Germans stay in the Don • tlev run the risk of further encirclement and that if they get PfaJil mean a new Russian victory. r t the Kuban the Red Army has now captured Kushchevskaya I tier important railway junction 50 miles south of Rostov. The r is also announce that they have broken into another large En this area which they do not name . I Tie Germans have now been squeezed into a small area m the I Kuban and their only means of exit is now across the I I Strait or the Sea of Azov. They have already been attemptIftn evacuate some of their forces in this direction and they have r ler t ] ie fi r e of the guns of the Russian Black Sea fleet and Ivp also been attacked by planes of the Russian fleet air arm.. I The Russians further north have cut the German commumca|ns between Orel and Kursk and are only 25 miles from the big lerman base at Kursk. The Germans in this area are hampered by lepsnow and long convoys of German lorries are snowed up.