HALF-WAY TO GOAL
REPULSED GERMAN ARMY
LONDON, January 2. How near the Germans were to rescuing General yon Hoth's ; trapped divisions south-west of . . Stalingrad is told by the Moscow ; correspondent of "The Times." '. Yon Manstein's drive on. December 12 was only halted after a violent [ struggle on the river Aksai, between • the Don and the Stalingrad-Tikhbretsk [ railway. Powerful German forces, l using 600 tanks, advanced 36 miles in ; 12 days at terrible cost The Russian front sagged dangeri ously but held, and important Rusi si an reinforcements arrived on Christ - ■ mas Eye, enabling a counter-offensive ■ in which tanks encircled, ambushed, i and harried the enemy. l The battle swiftly ' moved to Kotelnikovo, where the Germans hoped to • stage a recovery, but the Russian im--1 petus forestalled any regrouping by the enemy. The Red Army recover- '-. Ed in three days what it had lost in I 12.- .. .■.-.-■ - I Tanks and lorried infantry stormed ■ Kotelnikovo, completing the German ■ defeat. The Germans had reached . half-way to their objectives, but be- \ fore they were rolled back they had L lost more than 26,000 killed and ' captured.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 2, 4 January 1943, Page 5
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HALF-WAY TO GOAL
Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 2, 4 January 1943, Page 5
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