CHANGE IN WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 29, 3 August 1942, Page 5

CHANGE IN WAR

RUSSIANS SEIZING .INITIATIVE

NAZIS' HEAVY LOSSES

(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 2. The latest reports of fighting; on the Russian front indicate that the ' German advance is being successfully resisted, with the Russians seizing the initiative oh the whole front except to the south and southeast of Rostov. ■~. In this latter area, where the fighting is mainly around Salsk and Kushchevka, the Germans are still reported by Moscow to be making some progress southward, but only at the heaviest cost in men ana materials. .

■■• For two days in succession, superior ■German forces attacked in the Salsk :■; area in two columns, one carrying out frontal attack, while the other crashed through on the flank. After masses ..of .tanks attd aircraft had been thrown" 1 my: the-Germans succeeded in pushing j - the Russians back, v FIGHTING FOR EVERY YARD.

. -The-Soviet forces are ferociously -contesting every yard and making occasional counter-attacks. At Kusnchevka, the Germans are intensifying the-pressure, and trying to" advance at any price. , . They face the determined resistance of Cossack units reinforced by artillery and anti-tank rifles. If the Germans succeed in the push westward they will try to cut off the Soviet troops along the shore of the Sea of Azov west of Bataisk.—B.O.W.