The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-01-29
Three German Generals
Among Surrendered
5000 Others Killed
SOVIETS IN POSITION TO
STRIKE AT RETREATERS
4S Russian Generals Hon
Ored for Successful Of
fensive Operations
By HENRY SHAPIRO

BY HENRY SHAR1HO
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Moscow, January 20. ---'
(UP) - Russian troops have
liquidated one of the strongs
est pockets of enemy resist
ance on the Voronezh front,
killing or capturing 5000
more Axis electives and
raising to at least 81, 900 the
number Of prisoners taken
on that sector, it was dis
closed today.
Three German generals were
among a. group Of 5000 enemy
troops who surrendered, the Soviet
noon communique disclosed. Three
thousand others were killed BY
picked tank forces, Red Guards and
cavalry commander by Colonies
General Philip !. Golikov.
The capture Of Kastornoye, vital
junction of the w-Taganrog
and Voronezh- Kursk railroads, BY
Golikov's northernmost forces
placed the Red Army in excellent
\ % tioT4 to strike at the flanks Of
the German armies Tetreating from
the east.
The newspaper PraYEia rep0rtea
that the Germans had heavily fQrti-
fed Kastornoye TO protect the flAitl<
Of their forces to the south. The
Russians smashed through despite
concentrations Of Axis tanks and
artillery and widespread mine fields.
The Germans also had erected thick
ice walls to protect their POSITIONS
Pravda said.
The prestdium Of the supreme
Soviet rewarded 4S Russian generals
with the orders Of Kuauzov and
Surovov today for their successful
offensive operations which are driv-
ing the Germans back along the
2,000-mile front.
Front dispatches said the German
pocket liquidated on the Voronezh
front was only one Of many threat
ened with disaster midway between
Moscow and Rostov.
One Russian unit, the noon COM
munique said, had liberated 50 in
habited localities, villages and dis
trict centers, within two days in
an advance westward toward
Kursk, on the Kharkov-M Moscow
railroad from Voronezh.
800 Prisoners
This united took more than 500
prisoners and captured q large
quantity Of war spells.
The grim work of cleaning out
the first gigantic Russian man trap,
at Stalingrad, continued relentless
ly and 1t was indicated that there
could hardly be more than 5000
men remaining Of the 100000 enctr-
cled and smashed there.
(The Moscow radio, heard In Lon-
don, said German Lieut.. Gen. Repke
had surrendered at Stalingrad with
all that remained Of the entire Ger
man 297th Division.
(Ilya luxembourg, famous RUS
sian war correspondent, wrote in q
special dispatch to the London
News Chronicle that Gen. Friedrich
Won Paulus. German commander in
chief at Stalingrad. was said by
German prisoners to have ned, turn.
ing his command over to one Lieut.
Gen. Hibner, who in turn also de-
serted his men and fed by air
plane)
-"Our troops on the Don front
continued to annihilate separated
detachments of the enemy, who
singly and in small groups con-
tinue to lay down their arms and
surrender" the noon communique
said Of the Stalingrad situation.
''Men of x unit captured $40
prisoners. Another unit wiped out
100 German officers and men. Booty
is steadily increasing" yesterday up
TO 1000 Germans had been killed
and 800 more surrendered, Accord
ing to ofiicial count. out n tho
ragged. starving. hopeless thousands
who remained.
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