SOUTH FROM STALINGRAD

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXII, Issue 15243, 8 January 1943, Page 4

SOUTH FROM STALINGRAD

POWERFUL RUSSIAN THRI ST. United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 6. Moscow correspondents emphasise th 0 vigour with which the Russians are thrusting south from Stalingrad. The Times Moscow correspondent says General Yeremenko ordered liis armies to fully exploit the advantages towards the 'Stavropol highlands and across the Salysk Steppes to Xuban, and these pursuit battles are being fought with great resolution Reuter*s Moscow correspondent, emphasising tho strength that the Russians are employing, says that on the southern front there is the most powerful tank corps that the Red Army has yet fielded and flying cavalry columns are straining every nerve to pursue the Germans in sectors where they are making an effort to break contact. The Germans are thrusting on madly to escape the avenging Cossacks and swift motorised columns. Low-flying Stormoviks preventing German fighter protection have been another great asset in the offensive. Tlie fleeing Germans are abandoning the wounded. Five hundred were found in a single hospital at Xantimirovka. German prisoners are often in a pitiful condition, being badly-dressed, with their hands and feet frozen. They complained that ‘they had forgotten when last they were washed and had not enough water even for drinking.