NEARER TO ROSTOV

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15236, 29 December 1942, Page 3

NEARER TO ROSTOV

ONLY 80 MILES FROM CITY RUSSIANS REGAIN MANY TOWNS GERMANS CEASELESSLY HAMMERED. United Press assn.—Bv Electric Teiegrapz*—Copv ruzhzLONDON, Dec. 28. A new Moscow communique says the Russian forces are now 80 miles from Rostov. u.l*.Ll ■UI i.l ;< ; | j „ , , . Aii earlier message states that the area regained by the Russians leaves the Don River about 80 miles north-north-west of Rosoch, crosses the Voronej-Millerovo railway 20 miles north of Rosoch, hugs the railway to Rosoch which apparently i s still held by tlie Germans, then runs almost straight to a point slightly east of Osinovo and swings somth-west to the Millerovo area where the Russians hold Baynkovka 25 miles north-west of Millerovo, Malchevskaya 12 miles north-west of Millerovo, Grekovo 10 miles west of Millerovo, Voloshina 22 miles west of Millerovo, and also Olkhovyirog and Tarasov which are about 15 miles south of Millerovo. The line runs roughly south-east-wards from the Tarasov area to Goloya which is about 20 miles north-east of Kaminskaya. The Russians hold Tatsynskaya. Potemkinskaya and Chilekov which are 011 the railway between Kotelnikov/o and Jntovo.