WAR IN CAUCASUS
RUSSIANS WITHDRAW FROM OIE TOWN
WELLS DESTROYED
-■ -LONDON,'. August 16/ " . Th c Russian troops "are stated: to have withdrawn from Maikop. Moscow, says' that all • the: equip - went of ihe'oilwelis,'and; large stores of oil," were got away ,in time. The oil wells themselves were completely destroyed: . Tlie Russians .have withdrawn to' new positions in the Mineralnye, Vody area, in tlie Caucasus.1 where'heavy fighting is going -on. , * ■ :■ > : ' • Around Voronezh .the Red Army has repelled 1 more enemy attacks, but on the, river's, western bank the Germans broke/through' into a populated place and; street fighting is going on:' . v
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 41, 17 August 1942, Page 3
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100WAR IN CAUCASUS Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 41, 17 August 1942, Page 3
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