GATHERING PACE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1943, Page 5

GATHERING PACE

SOVIET OFFENSIVE

LONDON, January .21. lUutoi^* MftM«w corwswjndeiit cables that the RwMOanV^-mlle winter offensive in the south,-which , is entering its tenth wee*,~ te gathering momentum. Hitler's forces are threatened m the great central bases of their; winter line —Rostov, Kharkov, and Kursk, besides North Caucasia. ..... The Moscow correspondent of "The Times" says that the Russians in the south are carrying the battle westward into regions which tnfe Germans can ill-afford .to lose if they hope w retain any of last summers gams, ana they have already lost about hitf of the territory which was seized after? the launching of the first attack, from the Kursk salient last year. A feature of the mobile warfare on the Voronezh front is the utter routing of the Italians and Hungarians. The latter are brave in offensive warfare, ,:bjut«. crack when, 'the tide turns against them. • .-" --- In the north, Soviet successes jnthe^ Velikie Luki sector, in which several~ more places wtere taken yesterday.,. have coincided with a deepening of the :i winter. All the German positions between White Russia and the Baltic Sea, , are menaced. It is important to re-. member that the frozen ground |ft the ? north will not permit of movements^ of mechanised forces for many months;-' but it gives skirmounted troops, v o,f v whom the Russians have ai vast numr,, her, a substantial advantage.