TANKS IN DOZENS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1944, Page 3

TANKS IN DOZENS

BEING SMASHED BV RUSSIAN GUNS GENERAL VATUTIN’S TACTICS.. AGAIN OPENING DARK OUTLOOK FOR GERMANS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 15. Reuter’s Moscow correspondent says the German counter-attacks east of Vinnitsa have reached a new pitch of intensity. Tanks are being knocked out in dozens, and wide areas; are strewn with enemy dead., The fall of Vinnitsa, says the Moscow correspondent of the British United Press, would mean the end of the German armies in southern Russia, and Field Marshal von Mannstein, after live days of murderous fighting east of Vinnitsa, is still throwing all tanks and infantry available into counter-blows in an effort to stem the unflagging Russian pressure. The correspondent points out that General Vatutin is using the same tactics as he employed against the massive German counter-blows from Zhitomir; he is managing to halt the present German thrusts with artillery and without using tanks. Vatutin in the Zhitomir battles waited till the German attacks were exhausted and then, with hundreds of fresh tanks, smashed clean through to Poland. The same situation is at present building up before Vinnitsa with unqanny similarity. Reuter’s Moscow correspondent tonight says that Vatutin’s forces have driven an enormous wedge beyond the Sarny-Stepan line, and, in a drive toward Kolki, are already within sight of the Gorin River, which is the third water barrier met since the Polish frontier was crossed.