The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-19
Isolation Faces
 Nazis In Russia
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the German advance in 1941. The Axis was confronted with danger spots along the entire front.
 Second point of immediate peril to the Axis armies was the narrow ing corridor west Of Stalingrad con- meeting Rostov with Kamensk, on the railroad to Voronezh.
 Simultaneously with its announce ment that the 16-month siege of Leningrad had been lifted, the Red Army reported yesterday that its forces had driven across the Donets River and recaptured Kamensk, 90 miles north of Rostov.
 Once the SovietS mop up the Kainensk area, they will be in posi- tion to extend their bridgehead on the west bank of the DonetS and push on toward Likhaya, the vital rail junction 16 miles to the south which now is carrying the major role in supplying Rostov from the west. Such a drive would menace the entire Donets line of the Axis.
 Reports from the Stalingrad area, where the remnants of 9 Axis divis- ions have been reduced from 220,0 ,00o men to less than 10000, said the encirclement was frightened yester- day and 5000 more Germans were killed.
 General advances were reported in the Caucasus. Russian forces were advancing southwestward to- ward Salsk while another column was reported within a stones throw" of Proletarskaya, an important rail station on the line to Kamensk, about eight miles north of the Manyho River.
 Further gains also were reported in the drives toward Voroshilovck and Armavir.
 'Last night Soviet troops in the areas of Stalingrad, south of Vor- onezh, the lower Don, the northern Donets, the northern Caucasus and south of Lake Ladoga continued fighting in the same directions" the high command said.
 It was indicated that the Russians were pressing their advance in tht Lake Iadoga area relentlessly. There by capturing Schlusselburg, mos famous of all the German "bolt' positions, the Russians had freed Leningrad, Russia's second city, from its 16-month siege.
 300 Germans Killed To the south, in the Velilxie Lux area, 250 miles south of Leningrac and 275 miles west of Moscow, tht Russians during the night broke fierce German resistance to storm and capture six inhabited places killing 300 Germans, the noon com. munique said.
 Uondon military quarters had forecast intensification of the Rus- sian offensive operations on the cen- tral front in an attempt to force the Germans into 8 general withdrawal now that Schlusselburg had fallen and keningrad had been restored as a great military base and munitions making center.)
 On five other major battle fronts from Voronezh, 300 miles south oi Moscow, to the Caucasus the Rus. SianS made new gains during the night, the noon communique said.
 They captured inhabited places south of Voronezh, in the northern Donets river area, and on the new southern" front midway between Rostov and the Caucasus. In the north Caucasus, the noon communi. que said. the Russians, continuing to advance, captured new fortified positions.
 4 series of special dispatches and communiques startling last night told of gigantic Axis losses. of troops throwing away their arms and rum ming, or surrendering in mass in some areas while in other sectors German shock troops fought against hopeless odds, succumbing only when their positions were taken at the bayonet point or tanks crushed them to death.
 The noon communique noted that In the velikie Ltikt area, where the Germans have reaisted more pow- erfully than At any other part of the front, % German troops fan out ol hiding in houses. hands in the air, when they SEW % prisoners taken earlier being marched through q captured village.
 South of VoFonexh. the roor sNvn- manique said, the REiasians drove through series of inhaplssa ,aAsss during the night m one township the Aussians GInnshed resisting troops end captured part Of Q head- quafters. More than 500 German deed weFe counted co tho approaehea io the township end in lls streets. kn another ooutb tosonezh sector, lt was eaid. q whole battalion ~ uun-alIln LnlanllL. ul b l o11 m1n.