Evening star., 1942-07-16
Z Enemy So|ients
Within Us Miles
Of VoIgo City
z, the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, july lo.-A wv 1Ci
man salients we're driven within
IT'S miles of Stalingrad on the
Volga today, while at Voronezh
Red Army counterattacks were
said to have smashed a Nazi en-
circlement arm north OF the city
and repelled Axis advance forces
from its outlying streets.
The deepest Axis penetrations into
the big bend of the Don River
where it curves close to the Volga
were at German-wo Boguchar, 100
miles southeast of Voronezh, and
southeast of Millerovo, where the
new Russian stand presumably is
along the Kalitvia River, 125 miles
northeast of Rostov.
Boguchar and Millerovo have
fallen. finally abandoned by out
numbered Red Army troops after
hitter combat the Soviet 1nforma-
ton Bureau announced.
Danger Grows Hourly.
The danger to Stalingrad, guardian
of the lower Volga, and Rostov, rail-
gate to the Caucasus, grew hourly
with a large part of the important
Don River basin in the hanos OF
the invaders.
Russian dispatches said the most
critical situation of the war had
developed there in the vast tfeelesS
steppe- plain barren OF naturai
obstacles and perfect for tank op-
erations.
There were indications that the
fierce upsurge OF fighting was
spreading over more hundreds OF
miles of the battle front. Dispatches
from the Bryansk area. 22O miles
southwest of Moscow and $50 miles
northwest of Voronezh. said more
serious struggle" was impending.
No details on operations there at
the iuncture of the old battle line
and the new Axis bulge to the soutn-
east were given 1t was the nrst
word from the Bryansk sector IN ~
days.
Naxis Throw in More Tanks.
At voronezh, key to the German
twin threat to the road to the
volra and the way south into the
CAUCASUS, German troops and their
allies were hurting tank reinforce
ments across the Don into the battle
area and rushing up anti-tank bat
teries to meet the Reos ArIny
amored counterassaults.
Dispatches from the battle iron.
northwest of Moscow for the nrst
time mentioned fighting east o.
Rzhev. which is 100 miles from the
Soviet capital Operations IN that
area earlier had been described as
southwest of the CITY,.
Forces of German automatic H.
fiemen were said to have Weogeo
into Russian defense positions out
were reported repulsed after a two
hour battle.
The dispatches said German pres
sure continued but was not on the
scale of an offensive.
Hungarian troops. heavily sup
ported by tanks. struck at the juno
fion of the Don and Voronezn
Rivers southwest of Voronezh, but
the Russians were reported stiii
holding the city.
A German vanguard entered one
street but was driven out by Red
Army men, who captured 160 pris-
nners and destroyed the staH head
o,,arters Of a Nazi division. SAID a
dispatch to Pravda, Communist
party newspaper.
Enemy Pressed Back.
Soviet forces engaged the In
vaders overnight in the area 81
Voronezh and to the southeast OF
Milleroyo, the information bureau
said, and in another sector pressed
back the enemy to some extent Kill
ing about $50 Germans and Destroy
Ing five tanks"
astaff documents, two tanks and
a number of prisoners" were re-
norted taken in this engagement
developed by one Of a series OF
Red Army counterattacks.
soviet soldiers struck also on the
central front after repulsing three
enemy attacks and captured q
Naz;-fortified position, wiping ou'
about 900 Germans, the informa-
ton bureau said.
Kalinin front defenders were re.
ported to have held firmly agalns'
a number of German thrusts and
soviet engineering detachment was was
credited with killing more thah 4o'
of the invaders since July l.
Russian reports from the NIL
ierovo area indicated a Red Army
withdrawal of Is miles or more te
the Kalitvia River, minor trlou'
tarv of the Donets River, Whlch II
turn flows into the Don.
Rock Gets $4,000 Square Miles.
Multiple thrusts since June 2S ap.
,eared to have given Field Marsha
Cen, Fedor Won Books southern
command essential control over mos
NJ an additional $4,000 square miles
of russian soil, a block extending
i3o miles or so eastward from the
Kursk- -Kharkov zone.
CThe Berlin radio said German
forces had captured 1889 Rus
slams in the Kursk-Voronezh
fighting of the last two weeks
and Nazi news reels purported to
show invasion formations enter
ing Voronezh. a provincial ad-