REALISED IN MOSCOW

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1942, Page 5

REALISED IN MOSCOW

PEBIL IN THE SOUTH

(Rec. noon.) LONDON, July 28. There is no disposition in Moscow to under-estimate the gravity of Marshal Timoshenko's. position. All the Moscow morning papers printed a warning to the nation. "The enemy is surging ever closer to four of our most vital life centres," they say. "The Fatherland is in grave danger." A German .communique states • that the bridgehead-over the Don near Rostov has been considerably widened in a southern direction. German infantry and motorised units have crossed the Don on a broad front eastward of Rostov and reached the Manich-Salsk sector. Eastward of Rostov German and German-allied troops have crossed the .whole of the Lower Don. A Moscow message reports that the Germans on the Voronezh front are still attempting to hold the Russian advance which has assumed dangerous proportions.

NAZI EFFORTS FAIL.

All the German attempts to dislodge the Russians from the west bank of the Don have failed. The Germans have now fortified villages and mined territory in the northern and southern Voronezh sectors in the effort to slow down the Russians.

The Germans yesterday counter-at-tacked in the south in an attempt to push the Russians across the Voronezh River, which is a small tributary of the Dom The Russians repulsed the enemy and continued to advance. <

Moscow radio announced that the Russian Arctic Fleet Air Arm sank three large transports and set fire to warehouses at a northern enemy port. The radio also announced that more German divisions from France and Holland were arriving on the Russian southern front.