GERMAN WINTER LINE
GREATEST BUTTRESS GONE (Recd. 6 p.m.) London. Feb. 16. The recapture of Kharkov, the greatest buttress and pivot of the now non-existent German winter line, and also the most important railway centre in Russia except Moscow, sets the stage for the destruction of big German forces between the city and the Don Delta. It offers, according to London military commentators, even greater possibilities. Continuing the seizure of strategical railways, the Russians now virtually control the Orel-Crimea railway, which is the “spinal column”' of the German defence of south Russia. They are now able to menace the railways to Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, and Sumy, along which part of the German garrison of Kharkov is withdrawing.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 40, 18 February 1943, Page 5
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