DAY BY DAY

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15238, 31 December 1942, Page 2

DAY BY DAY

A REVIEW OF THE WAR .NEWS. Still further success by the Russians in their oifoiLsiv© is i epm tea in. today's news. Koteffnkuvo iias laileu to tne ReU Army alter a tourclay battle in wiVcn the losses to the Uernimis in. men and. material are said to be enormous. Tne booty wnich is now being counted mciudea large quantities oi stores, tain*, equipment, 1/ planes in good oiaei and a tramload of tanks. Tiie culture of tlie city is most important .n that ft was a key point in tile Oilman aefences and tlie enemy am their utmost to retain it. The Soviet forces by-passed the City on both Hanks and tnen drove m Irom bot-u sides. The .Nazis m their desperate attempts to hold their positions los„ no fewer than 25,000 killed and S,OUd prisoners. Little information has been released of the campaign in Tunisia where our advance forces retired alter in—liictnig casualties on the enemy at Mejez El Bab. Reports oi large Allied shaping concentrations at Gibraltar would seem to indicate that the 1110411 battle might even now lkin progress. European sources have supplied news of material and sup - plies being rushed through France and Italy to reinforce the Axis forces in Tunis and Bizerta. Confirmation of these preparations comes from official Allied reports. The war in the Pacific provides little highlights but it i 6 nevertheless most fierce and the United Nations are capitalising their air superiority to the full with effective results. The Eighth Army’s pursuit oi Rommel is now to all injtent© and purposes, part and parcel of the North African campaign centred on Tunisia.