STEADY PROGRESS
RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS PERSISTENT PRESSI RE ON GERMANS (Recd 9,.‘.i) i-.m. > London. Jan. 11 Th* Times’ >' * kholm corrcspon ent say.- that no Russian advance either from the north to Rjev or o General Zhukov.- left a. :n towai i the Ziazma-Smolensk raii'.vay hax been reported since yesterday. 1 .1 Russians obviously require time ’ bring up the heaxx maV-nals nev.sary for battering German resistant on terrain which is far mon* dillicu in winter £or offence thso defend Progress on the w hole apj • 1 s to continuous and steady, but rapidiD nowhere possible, except in sma sports aft< This b» equally >: ;•/'•a-' the v. ho; of the I kraine. where Ru»ians i laboriously developing important opei ations Eastward oi KunT and Kh;r L. the Germans claim small successes £ larly near Kursk, but they admit th great weight ot the Russian pressui and the pel sistancc >f Russian 01 slaughts in vux.- all- rave. How ever, even ;'■• ■ rcles d not consider the successes 1 he more than flea-bites on the v;v Russian lightin.; zones, and they a; pear to be pr< ; a n_- Lie public L news oi iuither *. legic.n wilt drawals.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 17, 21 January 1942, Page 5
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