SUICIDE GARRISONS USED

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15235, 28 December 1942, Page 2

SUICIDE GARRISONS USED

GERMANS ON MIDDLE IX>N FRONT United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegranb—Copyright LONDON. Dec. 26. The Germans on the middle Don front are leaving behind suicide garrisons in the southward and south-westward retreat but the Russian tide is sweeping over them, says the British United Press' Moscow corresjwndent. The Red Army is dragging quantities of artillery with them as it advances. Reuter’s Moscow correspondent says large-scale fighting occurred south-westwards of Stalingrad where the Russians are forcing back the Germans along a 22-mile front north and south of the Koteluikovo railway. The Red Star says the latest Red Army offensive south-westward of Stalingrad has sealed the fate of the German troops encircled !>etween the Don and the Volga. An ambitious German attempt reach the trapped forces from the outside, rorthwards of Kotelnikovo. has. after a rather ticklish moment, been frustrated. A German news agency says fierce tank battles in more than 30 degrees of frost, are raging round th> encircled Gorman army between the Don and the Volga. Reuter’s Moscow corres|iondent says the Red Army, in the last 24 hours, has crowded into Millerovo which is beleaguered on all sides. The Russians H.ve recaptured Tarasov 15 miles south of Millerovo on the Millerovo-Rostov railway.