ENEMY SALIENT MOPPED UP BY RUSSIANS
Rugby, Jan. 1. The Russians in the south yesterday continued their rapid sweep across the desolate Kalmuk plains. Starting from the area between the lower Volga and the Engeni hills, south of Stalingrad, they reached the neighbourhood of Lake Manych and are advancing to the north of the lake on the left of the forces coming down th? railway through Kotelnikovo. The advance which brought them to Priyutnaya, 80 miles east of the railway junction of Salsk, which is 100 miles east-south-east of Rostov, also made them 20 miles north-east of Divnole, which is at the head of the branch railway leading from Armavir, the Caucasian oil town 150 miles to th? south-east.
Other places captured yesterday show that what had become a deep German salient between the lower Don bend and the River Chir is being mopped up. Nizhnekirskaya, which the Germans lost yesterda” was the nearest foothold to the isolated Stalingrad force from which they are about 50 miles distant. —8.0.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 2, 4 January 1943, Page 5
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