Daily Post - 19.01.1943, Blaðsíða 4

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DAÍLY POST
Russian
(Continued from page 1.)
our Allies have liberated 600
towns and villages, including
Rossosh, 100 miles south of Vo-
ronezh, smashed nine enemy
divisions,—six of them Hungar-
ian—killed 15,000 troops and
taken 17,000 prisoner. Great
quantity of booty was also cap-
tured. The Red Army now con-
trols almost the entire 200 miles
stretch of railway between Vo-
ronezh and Kamenskaya, which
is now threatened from both
north and south.
DONETZ CROSSING
Having captured Millerovo,
the Soviet forces are developing
a double threat to Rostov:
firstly, by crossing the Donetz
to the north-east, and threaten-
ing the Voronezh-Rostov rail-
way, and secondly, along the
Lower Don, where our Allies
are continuing their offensive
operations.
PAULUS’ LAST AERODROME
TAKEN
The mopping up of the Ger-
man Sixth Army continues suc-
cessfully, and since Saturday
closer details of the enemy loss-
es in this area have been given.
During last week alone 32,000
enemy troops were accounted
for, and the booty captured
during that time includes 15,000
vehicles, 500 tanks, 940 field
guns and 300 planes. To-day’s
Moscow communique states
that the liquidation of the
trapped enemy is drawing to a
close, as Russian troops yester-
day stormed and took the last
aerodrome remaining to the
Germans, killing 1,850 of the
Nazis. So much for Hitler’s
promise of help. His leaflets
dropped to the unfortified en-
circled army, stating among
other things: “. .. We have not
forgotten you ...” has proved
to be just another scrap of
paper. In Stalingrad itself, more
buildings and streets have been
taken by our Allies, and the
ring around the hopeless enemy
is being drawn steadily tighter.
The front now measures only
10 miles from north to south,
and 25 miles froiji east to west.
MANYCH RIVER
Further Russian progress is
reported along the Stalingrad-
Black Sea railway, and in the
northern Caucasus, north-east
Vletories
of Salsk, the town of Elmuth
has been recaptured by Soviet
columns advancing north of the
railway, while the Russian
troops on the railway itself have
practically reached Proletar-
skaya, 25 miles from Salsk.
There is still a possibility that
the Germans will try to make a
stand on the Manych River. In
the Caucasus, our Allies have
covered another 20 miles to-
ward§ Voroshilovsk, and are
drawing closer to Armavir.
Moscow messages tonight re-
port that General Zhukov has
been promoted to the rank of
Marshal of the Soviet Union.
Berlin
Bombed
London, Jan. 18th.
Sweeping over Berlin for the
second night running, a strong
force of our heawy bombers
again made a heavy attack on
the German capital.
On their way over the huge
R.A.F. planes had bright moon-
light, but over the target was
some cloud, but in spite of that
many large fires were left burn-
ing. Several combats developed
during the raid, and some ene-
my resistance was met over
occupied countries. From this
raid 22 of our planes did not re-
turn.
SIEMENS A GOOD TARGET
Berlin has several good tar-
gets, such as munition and in-
dustrial factories, ambng them
the huge Siemens works, the
biggest electrical plant in the
world. Good results were ob-
tained in Saturday night’s raid,
when a heavy load of bombs
was dropped, including a numb-
er of our 4,000 pounders, as
well as a few of our 8,000
pounders. From this raid, the
first Berlin has experienced for
14 months, only one of our
bombers failed to return.
LUFTWAFFE LOSES 20%
As was expected, German
raiders came over London and
south-eastern England last
night, as a gesture of retaliation
for Saturday’s raid on Berlin.
Everything was well prepared
and as a result at least 10 bomb-
Former Vichy Minister To
Be Governor Of Algieria
London, Jan. 18th.
Messages from Algiers state that Marcel Peyrouton, formerly
Minister of the Interior in the Vichy government, and now in
South America, is expected to arrive in North Africa, to take up
the post of govemor of Algeria. He will relieve General Giraud
of civil administration, and enable him to devote himself more
to the war. General Giraud has also appointed one of his generals
governor of Tunisia.
Baid On
Babaul
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A comunique from General
MacArthur’s HQ today ann-
ounced that Flying Fortresses
have sunk or seriously damaged
five Japanese ships, totalling
35,000 tons, in a night attack on
Rabaul harbour in New Brit-
ain. The airfield at Rabaul was
also heavily pounded during the
raid, which lasted three hours.
Since the beginning of the
year, the Japanese have lost
175,000 tons of shipping in Ra-
baul' harbour alone.
In New Guinea, Allied forces
have cut the main San Ananda
road at two points. The Japan-
ese defenders are now cut into
three groups, and 120 Japanese
were killed in action on Satur-
day.
On Guadalcanal, the enemy
has lost some more ground in
the northern tip of the island.
R.A.F. Active In
Bnrma
The Royal Air Force in Bur-
ma gave most of its attention
yesterday to Japanese positions
in the Rathe Daung area.
Our planes went over the
enemy positions three times,
ers were shot down out of the
estimated enemy force of 50 to
60 planes in all which came
over in two separate attacks—
one early last night and the
other early this morning. No
big scale damage is reported, al-
though there were some casual-
ties.
Fighter Command planes
yesterday carried out a 13-hour
attack on German communi-
cations in occupied territories.
Goods trains, canal barges, and
a convoy of lorries were among
the targets.
with good results, bombing and
machir^egunning the various
targets. Wellingtons were over
Toongou, damaging runways
and dispersal areas. All last
week’s operations cost us only
two aircraft.
Medium American bombers
were out Saturday and Sunday,
attacking railway targets in
Central Burma. On Friday they
sank a Japanese vessel of 7,000
tons, and damaged another of
5,000 tons south of Rangoon.
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