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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23811, 3 December 1942, Page 1

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'■ ; RUSSIAN OITTENSEVES | “The focal point in the bailie ( before Stalingrad is now the inangle formed by Slalingiad, ■ Kalacin and Kachalmskuy j, where, cutting the railway pe- 1 tween Kalach and Stalingrad. : the Russians have advanced to within about 20 miles of the ; German treble semi-circular ' line round Stalingrad. For me 22 trapped German divisn na ] there ia no way of escape,’' s,.ys ’ Reuter’s Moscow correspondent, j who adds that Hitler is rushing all German troops from the Bui- • tic States to Russia in a bid to : stop the rot ot his tottering wm- ' ter line above Moscow and bifore Stalingrad. ’ The Berlin correspondent m N 1 the German-controlled Bcan-o-navuni telegraph bureau slut, a: “Rus.-..an pressure on the c._ utrai font is noi diminishing, ioit the Russians have not made .my dec;.-. - I- break through.' Ine - . rone..pendent says the Germans j are cunplairung about, the excellent quality of Russian weapons and their enormous supply of tanks.—London, December 2. VICHY AND NORTH AFRICA ] Tin Vichy radio says the i Fir-n-.-h Minister tor the Colonies iAdmiral Platon), in a broadcast to North Africa, said: . ■‘Tho > who obey the Anglo- _ : Saxon.- are merely pretending to march for France. North . i Africa will be used as a base ; against France. I exhort you to ; oppose - the Anglo-Saxons and the traitors who take their ] orders.”—London, December 2,