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BUS QIAN FRONT LONDON, August 14. In the Caucasus the Russian resistance is more effective in the west. The Germans managed to cross a strategic river in the Krasnodar area, but all the troops that managed to get *cross were wiped out. Further east the German advance along the railway to the Caspian continues. Fierce fighting is reported in a region 60 miles east of Cherkesk. South-west cf Stalingrad in the Kotelnlkov area the Germans are meeting such a heavy curtain of fire from Soviet artillery that they have given up massed tank attacks and are using infantry. PATROLS ACTIVE IN EGYPT LONDON, August 14. The Cairo communique says that night patrols were active and inflicted casualties on enemy patrols and working parties in the northern sector. British artillery shelled enemy positions in the central sector.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23717, 15 August 1942, Page 1
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