CHECK AT KLETSKAYA

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

CHECK AT KLETSKAYA

NAZI EFFORTS FAIL

(Rec. 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2. The Russians havff launched a number of successful counterattacks on the Salsk front, and "Red Star" reports that heavy figjjting has been going on here on a broad front for several days, and adds that the Red Army, with very active air support, is checking the German advance in the Kletskaya region. The Germans could nowhere claim progress in this region yesterday. Vichy radio stated that Marshal Timoshenko was regrouping his forces and launching counter-attacks in the 1 Kushchevka area, and that fighting was very heavy. A Moscow message says that Russian planes are swinging into the battles bf Kushchevka and Salsk and earlier relieved hard-pressed Cossacks. The heavy Russian tanks which are moving up ta the Don elbow are often in action before they are unloadedIMPORTANT RAILWAY HELD. A German communique states that mobile formations and infantry divisions on the southern Russian front relentlessly pursued the Russians in the direction of Kuban and broke the resistance of the rearguards. The Germans and Italians in the. Don elbow captured Russian bridgeheads. "Pravda" declared that tens of thousands of crack German troops had been killed at the approaches to Murmansk. Kandalaksha, Loukhy, and Rebply in attempting to capture the

railway. All efforts to capture the Kola Peninsula had failed.

"Red Fleet," the navy journal, states that a strong detachment of the Russian fleet attacked a German-held Black Sea port three days ago, started huge fires, and withdrew safely. A Moscow message says it has been revealed that there has been a big rovmd-up of spies and fifth columnists behind the lines. Forty-five persons were executed in one Don sector.