NORTH OF CAUCASUS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 17, 20 July 1942, Page 6

NORTH OF CAUCASUS

GREAT FIGHT RAGES

GERMANS THROW IN FRESH TROOPS

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 19. "Red Star" says that the centre of gravity of the German offensive is now north of the Caucasian region, where fighting is going on over a wide area. • The Germans are still piling in reinforcements, looking for weak spots and trying to break through ■ and attack the Russians from the rear. Obdurate resistance, in face of great numerical superiority, is defeating the break-through attempts. The Germans possess so large a force here that only the strongest defence, with powerful counter-blows, can hope to arrest their advance. An Ankara message says that wellinformed Turks declare that the Russians have several millions of wellequipped reserves within the Voro-nezh-Astrakhan-Kuibyshev triangle. , A German communique states that the Russians attempted a landing from the sea east of Mariupol, but were beaten back. Berlin radio reveals that the Russians had gained a foothold, but says that Rumanian cavalry discovered and repulsed them. It adds that the Russian boats escaped under cover of darkness. The Russian objective was the destruction of a coastal artillery post. Moscow radio reports that a gigantic air battle, in which 400 German and Russian planes were engaged, was fought over the Barents Sea, when strong German naval and air forces attacked a convoy en route to Russia. Russian warships and submarines went Ito the aid of the convoy and 30 Gerj man planes were shot down.