LULL BEFORE STORM
HEAVY NAZI LOSSES
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
LONDON,. August 15,
A front-line dispatch to the Moscow "Red Star" reporting that the Genman offensive against Stalingrad from Kotelnikovo has been arrested, warns that this is only a lull before a fresh storm. The German losses, especially in tanks, have forced them on to the defensive in certain sectors, where they are digging in, erecting barbed-wire entanglements, and hurriedly moving- up reserves. ~ ■:;■; ■•'.."■.:.
;The Exchange Telegraph < Company's correspondent in, Moscow-.,says that .the Russians defending the western bank of the Don are in a critical position after the German break-through south of Kletskaya. Reuters Moscow correspondent says that reports from the Don elbow show that, the Russians have been pushed back in some sectors close to the west bank- of the' flyer. ...jV.'m.o- th"v pro fortifying new lines - i ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 41, 17 August 1942, Page 5
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137LULL BEFORE STORM Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 41, 17 August 1942, Page 5
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