MORE SOVIET ATTACKS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 201, 26 August 1943, Page 5

MORE SOVIET ATTACKS

! REPORTED OVER WIDE AREA I • Reed. 7.30 p.m. Rugby, Aug. 24. i More Soviet air attacks were anipounced officially by Moscow radio 'to-night. ‘•Last night Soviet aircraft attacked the railway junction of Debal tsevo and railway stations, including Barevenkova. As a result of the bombing several enemy ammunition d”mps were blown up and several military trains wrecked. On the same I night aircraft raided a concentration I of enemy troops, tanks and lorries | south-west of Kharkov. Our aircraft subjected to strong bombing the aero- j dromes on which the enemy had concentrated planes. Explosions on the aerodromes were observed. Two; Soviet planes failed to return.” I ‘‘The enemy, bled white in the re-[ cent fighting, is hurriedly bringing up ■ reserve:?.” says a supplement to to- | night’s Soviet communique, referring to the Kharkov fighting. The Germans retreating from Khar- I kov abandoned a great quantity of arms and equipment. | I West and south of Kharkov Soviet ‘troops pushed ahead against large ;enemy forces. T vg thousand Germans .were killed in the course of the day. North-vest of Kharkov one Red Army •formation, overcoming enemy resistlance and repe-ling counter-attacks in [several localities, wiped out over 600 Germans. I South-west, of Voroshilovgrad the Germans, attempting to stem tlw offensive, launched several counterattacks, all of which were repelled] with heavy loss to the enemy. One Red Army formation wiped out over j 800 Nazis. German prisoners report that in the 24th German Infantry | Division only three to six men in every company are still fit. Th? ethers were killed or wounded. South of Izyum particularly fierce •fighting occurred on the approaches [to a strongly-fortified keypoint .of |°nemy defence. Soviet troops broke lin and occupied it. One thousand ♦ enemy troops were killed. '■ In the Briansk direction Soviet j troops dislodged the enemy from four localities. On th n Leningrad front a Soviet detachment wiped out 402 Germans. In the Gulf of Riga and the Gulf of Finland Soviet naval units and units of the Air Arm sank two enemy transports totalling 8000 tons, one escorting vessel and one escorting cutter.—B.O.W. . < the Russians would do their utmost to prevent the garrisons from getting away. Hence the Soviet plan seems to be [a double enveloping movement, comIhined with direct pressure from the ; h'*ad of the salient on the Mius River. I— 8.0.W.