FALL OF KASTORNOYE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1943, Page 8

FALL OF KASTORNOYE

GRAPHIC DETAILS

{By Telegraph—Press AssoclatiPt—Copyright.) (Eec. 2.20 p.m.) • LONDON, Jan. 29. Front line correspondents graphically narrate details of the capture of Kastornbye, which bristled with firing points hedged in a'jungle <ef minefields and barbed wire, defended by machine-gun fire. Russian artillery blew a lane through the minefields and knocked out many machine-gun-ners. Infantry then infiltrated the outskirts and secured - a foothold in strategically situated houses. The Germans trundled out camouflaged guns and opened point-blank fire, but the Russians speedily attacked from the rear and wiped out the gunners. The Russians then turned the guns against the remnants of the enemy, who were systematically cleared out ptreet by street. Germans armed with automatic rifles who were defending the railway station were almost exterminated, and survivors attempting to escape were rounded up. The remnants" of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad—the army* used £or the attack in Belgium in 1940—rare |iow at the last extremity, sheltering tea. the ruins of the city. The German news agency says that escapees describe Stalingrad as a hell pf explosives, steel, and blood. Every German tank, gun, and mortar fires to the last. . Moscow radio reports that General Repke surrendered at Stalingrad with the remnants of the 297 th Division: The systematic German surrenders at Stalingrad and on the Voronezh fcront have increased in the last 24 hours, says the Moscow correspondent pf the Associated Press of America, suggesting that complete capitulation jbr extermination is approaching. The (Russians are encouraging surrender by groups by allowing the enemy to pass Jo and fro with terms of surrender. Berlin radio announced .that General Reuss, commander of the German forces in the Don Bend, was killed in action. i Heavy fighting continues south-east <of Leningrad, where the Germans' fiave rushed up strong reinforcements In an effort to recapture Sinyavino. 3?hey have counter-attacked furiously in the last ten days, supported by the iLuftwaffe, resulting in many air battles, in which 14 German planes iyere shot down yesterday. j