ABUNDANT FORCES

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

ABUNDANT FORCES

NAZIS REVEAL POWER

LONDON, July 28. The "Daily Telegraph's" Moscow, correspondent says that the German Command every day is throwing- in more reserves at all essential points, aiming at widening and deepening the wedges which are being driven towards Stalingrad and Baku, the great oil centre.

"Never before has the enemy better shown his superlative concentrations, and also in wealth of efficient motor transport," says the correspondent. "But we must not belittle Marshal Timoshenko's strategy. He cannot yet risk engaging forces as heavy as von Bock's." "Pravda's" front-line reporter at Rostov said yesterday: "Enemy planes, tanks, artillery, and everything were again thrown in today, and in a ferocious battle, our artillery fired on the tanks over open sights, knocking out scores of them. We threw back three attacks in one area, but the enemy brought up more tanks and fresh infantry and broke deeply into our defences."

BATTLE ON DON BEND.

The "Daily Telegraph's" Stockholm, correspondent reports that a tremendous panzer battle is raging round Kalach, on the Don bend, and due west of Stalingrad.. Russian tanks ana also infantry, in powerful field fortifications, are offering desperate resistance to Rumanian and German armoured forces, which are attacking in wave after wave in superior numbers and with seemingly inexhaustible reSGI*VGS ■ ' Marshal Timoshenko xis launching counter-attack after ■■ counter-attack-against Marshal von Bock's menacing bridgeheads in the Tsimlyansk area, and the Germans have been; thrown back into the Don at several points, and at others cut off, but elsewhere the Russians admit that they have been forced to give ground. Moscow yesterday described the situation as very grave.

NAZI COLUMN CUT OFF.

The "Daily Mail's" Stockholm correspondent yesterday said that two German armoured columns which forced the Don at Tsirrilyansk joined up, but that the Russians isolated them from the river and were launching attacks from all sides in an attempt to wipe them. out. . Another dispatch said that the enemy's pressure was growing every hour, but each fresh attempt to force a crossing had been savagely smashed by the Red Air Force, which was now in considerable strength in the Tsimlyansk area. New Stormoviks were blasting the German concentrations; these are dive-fighters fitted with big cannon and strongly armoured forward so that they can come right down and rake tanks, batteries, transports, and troops. . , The Germans temporarily made a new crossing, but they were thrown into confusion by a Stormovik blitz and then were pushed into the river by troops with bayonets, grenades, and tommy-guns. Vichy radio stated that the Red Fleet evacuated from Rostov to Yeisk, 60 miles away in the Sea of Azov. The "Soviet War News," London, states that the Red Air Force destroyed or damaged more than 1800 German tanks between June 27 and July 24. Two hundred and twenty-eight German tanks were destroyed in one sector of the Voronezh front.