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CLOSING ON STARAYA RUSSA. I (United Press Association —Copyright.) !(Roc. 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 25. A Russian unit advancing swiftly 30 miles across Lake llmen approached the outskirts of Staraya Russa. A ski detachment broke into the- outskirts land liberated several hundred Rus--1 sians from a prison camp. Guerrilla.s [within Staraya Russa co-operated with the advancing Russians. Tho Times Stockholm correspondent I points out that supply and communications are the Germans' paramount difficulty, because they have been obliged to during the past month, and must in future, rely almost exclusively on the railways and the air. The supply roads, to Staraya Russa are cut in many directions. The Germans have paid for their efforts to feed the garrison with tho loss of hundreds of Junkers freight planes. Moreover, almost all the German trains to the vital forward positions must run tho gauntlet of an artillery bombardment and guerrillas.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 99, 26 March 1942, Page 6
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