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

tions have slowed down the German advance, The war correspondent of the Italian newspaper "Gazzetta del Popolo" (Turin) reveals the completeness of the Russian preparations. He reports that the Germans found Bataisk completely deserted.

The whole population of 200,000 had apparently been evacuated to the Caucasus, except for some who/were biding in the neighbouring countryside. Buildings collapsed mysteriously without audible explosion as the Germans entered, he says. POSITION AT VORONEZH. The Moscow correspondent of "The Times" said yesterday: "There is no significant change on the Voronezh \ front. The intensity of the battle is unabated, and appears to have reached a deadlock which can be resolved only when one side receives telling reinforcements." The Stockholm newspaper "Dagens Nyheter" says that fighting is still going on in the Pripet marshes, on the old Russian-Polish border, where the remnants of several Russian divisions are still holding out under two Russian generals. They are supplied by air and are causing the Germans great losses.

The Russians are taking the initiative in the Leningrad sector, now that the long nights have ended. Berlin radio claimed yesterday that the Germans had dispersed Russian armies attempting to cross the Neva River on the Liningrad front.