ADVANCING ON ALL FRONTS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15235, 28 December 1942, Page 3

ADVANCING ON ALL FRONTS

SECOND EDITION

RED ARMIES STRATEGIC GAINS SOVIET THR EATENLS H OSTOV. SUCCESSES IN CAUCASUS. (Deceived 10.10 a.in.) United Press assii.- Cv Electric pli—Co 1 )y r ig 1 1 1. LONDON, Dec. 27. Tlie Red Armies continue to advance everywhere and are making promising . strategic gains, Moscow cor res | >on dents say. General Vatoutin’s forces, after capturing Tatsynskaya and cutting the StalingradRostov railway, are approaching a position, from whence thej r will be a bio to threaten Rostov. One hundred miles away the Germans have created a strong supply base at Rostov . Golikov’s troops after widely breaching the German defences north, of Miilerovo are driving deeper into tlio Ukraine which Mas Hitler’s vaunted “eastern wall.” Soviet tanks and infantry are steadily streaming through the broach and fa im Dig out in the rear of the German. fortifications. They are now reported to be 36 miles north-east of V oroshlovgrad. The Russians, south-west of Starl.ingrad, after bitter fighting are still beating back German, efforts to relieve Von IToth and they have recaptured eight villages. 38 miles north-east of Kotelnikovo, which the/ Germans seized in the early stages of the attempt to bring the Russians to the neighbourhood of the Don. Simultaneously there are encouraging Russian advances in the Caucasus in the neighbourhoods of Nalchnc and Tuapse.