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Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1943
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German People Told Of Soviet
Victories
Ádmissions By Nazi Spokesman
London, January 12th.
Dietmar, the German military spokesman in Berlin, has at
last given the German people an inkling of the Nazi disaster in ■
Russia in a carefully phrased review of the war on tlie Eastern
front. ....
He made no mention of the
retreat in the Caucasus, nor did
he in his broadcast mention the
22 German divisions trapped
west of Stalingrad. Further-
more he failed to say anything
of the reverses on the Central
front, but he did emphasise
, that Russian successes in the
Lower Don area must be taken
seriously. The weight of the
Russian attack is greater than
last year,” he said, “the Red Ar
my has made several breaches
of no inconsiderable depth in
our lines.”
\ The Red Army’s swift advan-
ce following the capture of Mi-
neralnie Vody, Georgievsk, Pi-
atigorsk, and other important
places in the Ceritral Caucasus,
goes steadily on. The Soviet
spearhead has already thrust 20
miles beyond Georgievsk.
OFFICERS CAUGHT -
ASLEEP
More details are given in to-
day’s communiqué of the cap-
ture on the towns announced in
last night’s special communi-
qué from Moscow. The speed of
the Russian advance was such
that the Germans had no time
for demolition, and houses, pu-
blic buildings, hospitals and ot-
her — were captured intact.
One garrison was caught so un-
awares that the officers were
caught asleep at the regimen-
tal HQ.
HOW SOVIET CAUGHT GER-
MAN TRAIN!
Preliminary resistance at Ge-
‘•crgievsk was hard, but when it
broke, the retreat was so sud-
den and so swift, that as the
enemy fell back on Mineralnie
Vody, our Allies caught two
troop trains with the steam up,
just on the point of departure.
The trains, were full of Nazi
troops, and great quantities of
supply, were captured after
most of the troops had been
killed.
100 MILES ADVANCE
While the recapture of the
big towns was in progress, So-
viet tanks, cavalry and infant-
ry, always accompanied by
rtillery, rounded up isolated
German garrisons. The Red
Caucasus Army has now advan
ced 100 miles, on a hundred
mile front, in nine days. The
whole of the Nazi salients in
this area has been wiped out. j
This latest advance has
smashed all German hopes of
making a stand on the Kuma
river, because, as they retreat
their right flank is increasing-
ly in danger of being cut off
by the Russian Kalmuck steppe
forces.
STALINGRAD GAINS
The Russians are now ex-
tending solidfying their gains
on the Lower Don. Inside Stal-
ingrad itself further successes
are reported. The Germans
have been dislodged from six
streets in the factory area. —
Five more places on the Stalin-
grad—Black Sea railway have
retaken by our Allies.
Howzat!" Dr. fioebbels!
When Rommel’s advance into Egypt stopped at El Ala-
mein last year there was one German who went straight on,
'capturing Cairo and the Suez and sweeping the remains of
the British army into the Red Sea. He was Dr. Goebbels!
IT STARTED ...
So that there should be no doubt ábout it, he made a
film of the advance and showed it all over Europe. He
then sat back and waited. . . . Then at the end of Novem-
ber things began to move. The great advance started as
Dr. Goebbels had said it would, — •with an important dif-
ference!
..BUT WENT WEST!
The film icas hastily withdrawn but one copy was left
in North Africa and this has fallen into the hands of the
British authorities. It is intended to show it in London with
a commentrary explaihing why the Nazi advance eastwards
went West!
Aír Clashes In Tripolitania
London, January 12th.
There is an increase in enemy air activity over the battle
area in Tripolitania. In air combats which developed during yest-
erday, five enemy fighters were destroyed and many others
damaged.
Bombing and machine gun
attacks were made on Romm-
el’s transports, moving along
the road between Tripoli and
Misurata. Sousse also had an-
other raid, and enemy vehicles
were shot up cn the road be-
tween Sfax and Gabes.
NAPLES BOMBED
Allied aircraft went over in
daylight to the Italian main-
land yesterday and bombed
Naples. One intercepting Mes-
serschmitt was shot down. In
all these operations we lost on-
ly three aircraft. •
FRENCH AND GERMANS
CLASH
The Frenrh North A^rican
communiqué reports frequent
clashes between German and
French patrols in southern Tu-
msia.
Hardshfps — For Vicíory
The President of the Board
of Trade warned Britain to-
day of increasing shortages
and fresh hardships during
the coming year.
Mr. Dalton said that 1943
would be a hard and grim year
and there would have to be a
substantial withdrawal of la-
bour from industries not enga-
ged directly on wat work.