BIG TANK BATTLE
RUSSIANS SMASH KHARKOV DEFENCES (R'<■ i. 12.35 a.m.T London, May 17. "Three thousand tanks are believed to be locked in battie on the muddy anks of the Donetz River and around ti'c blazing suburbs of Kharkov it- , seif,” says the Sunday Express corre- ’ ■ spondent at Stockholm. i Axis-controlled sources and Vichy ’ admit that the Russians penetrated 37 ’ i miles into Kharkov's defences and are
* ' now fighting on the outskirts of the ■; town. The Russians made a second 1 breach of the German lines at Losol va\a, 70 miles southward of Kharkov. e ! and 50 miles from the Dnieper Dam. ‘ Moscow ra lio says many Germans in the Kharkov area are laying down i their arms and surrendering.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 114, 18 May 1942, Page 5
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