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STEADY PROGRESS MADE

Russians Advance In Chief Sectors

DRIVE SOUTH OF LENINGRAD

(Received January 15, 7 p.m.) LONDON, January 14. The Russians to-day made steady general progress in all the chief sectors, says the Stockholm correspondent of “The Times.” For the relief of Leningrad, he adds, the Russians appear to be carrying out not only a strong pinching movement against the immediate besiegers, but a more ambitious thrust in the Lake Ilmen region with the objective of severing the railway from Vitebsk to Leningrad, thus cutting this route

supplying the German armies round Leningrad from the south. This thrust will apparently involve the recapture on the way of Novgorod. The Russians operating in the Valdai Hills, the correspondent says, are already within 100 miles of this railway. They are pressing hard from the Ostachkov region, near Lake Seliger, apparently with a view to crossing the now frozen Kholm marshes.

The correspondent adds that the Germans’ position at Mozhaisk is desperate. Russian forces are somewhere north of Kirov and are still pushing along the railway to Vyazma. Fighting appears brisker in the Taganrog region, west of Rostov, on the Sea of Azov, but the German claim that their renewed withdrawal is because the Russians have landed west of Taganrog can be regarded with reserve. Their withdrawal is more likely to be due to the Russian successes in the Crimea and the Germans’ fear that they will be unable to prevent the Russians gaining command of the Perekop egress. The Germans in the’Crimea are in a desperate position, beset on all sides and with only meagre hopes of relief or reinforcement.

The Russian capture of Kirov is regarded in London as important as not only showing that the southern drive on the central front has breadth but also as containing a threat to the important railway from Smolensk to Bryansk, from which the Russians are 30 miles distant. The Russians have struck hard on the left wing of their pincers movement

round Mozhaisk, and to-night's Moscow communique reports the capture of Medyn. 25 miles due west of Malo Yaroslavets. Enemy positions astride the Moscow-Smolensk railway are now being battered by the Russians. With the capture of Dorochovo. 15 miles east of Mozhaisk, the last link in the German winter defence lines in front of Moscow is dangerously near to breaking. The German line, said • Russian commentator j like » bent pin.

Mines Near Panama Canal.—Mr Roosevelt has proclaimed the establishment of two mined areas in the vicinity of the Panama Canal.—Washington, January 14. Bursaries in Science.—The scheme of State bursaries in science, instituted last year in Britain in order to meet the demand for technical for the armed forces and war industry, will be continued in 1942. Bursaries will be awarded, as they wore last year, in engineering, in physics with radio, and in chemistry.—Rugby. Jan. 14. -

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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23538, 16 January 1942, Page 5

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STEADY PROGRESS MADE Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23538, 16 January 1942, Page 5

STEADY PROGRESS MADE Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23538, 16 January 1942, Page 5

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