VOROSHILOVSK'S FALL

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1943, Page 5

VOROSHILOVSK'S FALL

OPENS WAY TOWARDS

ARMAVIR

<Rec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 22. A Soviet communique this morning states: "During last night our troops in the area of Stalingrad, south of Voronezh, in the northern Caucasus, in the northern Donets, south of Lake Ladoga, and ih the' area of the lower Don continued fighting in the same direction as before." It is pointed out in London that the capture of Voroshilovsk opens the way to Armavir by a road ctossing the Kuban River. From Armavir a branch railway runs to Tuapse. » A supplementary Moscow communique says that the Germans were dislodged from more strongly fortified positions in the Stalingrad v area. Enemy counter-attacks failed. NAZIS OUTMANOEUVRED. The enemy in one sector attempted to stem the advance by concentrating a considerable force of infantry, but Russian tanks manned by automatic riflemen by-passed the positions and attacked successfully from the rear. Seven hundred prisoners were taken and much booty captured. On the south-west front the enemy threw reserves into the battle, but was repelled and had one battalion annihilated. Prisoners report that huge losses have been suffered on this front.