LATEST WAR NEWS
’he following is a summary of the >st war news: —
RUSSIAN FRONT
The German defence line beveen Orel and Voroshilovgrad, a [stance of over 300 miles no luger exists. German communijtions everywhere are being cut i the advancing Soviet forces, he Germans have o nly one supply nc left in the Don Basin.
Russian forces are now closing on Rostov from three sides, icy have already entered ' the wn of Kagaluitskaya south-east | Rostov. v ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE
[There arc still no details of the
g American daylight raid on ■iniaity. The Germans say that |o raid was a strong one.
jAVhen our pilots raided HamIrg, the second largest port in pope and the biggest U-boat piu the Reich, they had to *e temperatures of 40 degrees |°'v zero and big electrical |rms with much lightning. They |il(l see the fires in Hamburg | fa they were over Bremen CO les away.
TUNISIA
lliei'c is no fresh news from this ,D h Among the prisoners , en hy the Americans at Sened s mi Italian general. SOLOMONS
Nothing further is; known about ! naval and air operations going ; in the Solomons. the air war | urm " January the Axis lost 685 fj* ® ver Britain, Europe, the Fie East, French North Africa , ur nia. The Allied losses were »Planes.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13064, 5 February 1943, Page 5
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