The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-27

been sent to the rear within q few
hours.
Lieut.. Gen. VASTLY Chuikov'
62nd Russian army, which bore tn
brunt Of the last few months o
Stalingrad's defense, battered thu
Germans relentlessly within the
city, front reports said.
"Now Soviet units are DInoppinl
up the outskirts Of the city wherC
resistance already Is considerably
weaker" Red Star said. 1.-THE bat.
tie will end either with complete
humiliation Of the remaining garri.
sons or their surrender"
The Russians seized a field hos.
pital where they found TOO Ger.
mans dying as the result of fros
bite, llndernourishment and wounds
dispatches said.
Surrender Faxed
The Soviets ercircled the stat
Of the 669th German regiment to-
gether with a big enemy unit. Tit
Germans faxed surrender and were
wiped out to the last man." re.
ports disclosed. Survivors Of another
regiment surrendered, with thu
commander Of their STAFF and two
battalion commanders.
The newspaper IZvestia sale
three German generals had fled BY
air transport early in January
abandoning their troops. They
were identified as Lieut.. Gen. Dan.
iels, commander of the 377th in.
fantry, Lieut.. Gen. Schwering oil
the 10th division and Lieut.. Gen
Apfendlender Of the 350th division
who fed with other high officers.
10000 Killed
The obituary notice for the trapped
remnants at Stalingrad had beer
contained in a special communicate
which said that between Jan. 10 and
yesterday $4,000 had been taken
prisoner and more than 10000
killed, leaving only the two pocket
ed groups, one north Of Stalingrad
the other near the center Of the
city, to be disposed Of.
OF almost equal Importance was
the fact that the Russians had now
cleared three great railroad sys-
TENS leading from Stalingrad - to
Moscow in the north, to Likhaya on
the Rostov-Moscow to the west, and
to Salsk and Tikhoretsk to the
southwest.
Thus the Salsk line was open to
supply the Russian southern army
now less than 40 miles from Tx
horetsk, junction point for the eau
casus railroad and apparently nea,
contact with the north Caucasus
army driving up from the north on
Kropotkin.
At last reports the Russians were
only IA miles from Kropotkin which
in turn Is only IS miles down
the Caucasus railroad from Tx
horetsk.
The noon communique, reporting
local actions during the night and
mentioning some desperate enemy
unter-attacks, at the same time
gave a picture Of continued un-
broken Russian advances along the
450-mile southern offensive front Of
the Red army.
In one Voronezh sector, west OF
the On. the Russians during the
night drove through several inhab-
tied localities, capturing important
spells, and in others they smashed
attempts Of encircled groups to
break out and either killed or took
prisoner all Axis troops in the
traps.
800 Prisoners
On the southwestern front guards
troops stormed and captured an in
habited locality, took more than 800
prisoners and seized three air
planes, 1000 aerial bombs, 81 ma
chine guns, 81 field guns, three an
ti-tank guns, five tractors and 9TH
err spoils, the noon communique
reported.
In another southwestern sector
the Russians repulsed counter-at-
tack and killed up to 900 Germans.
On the southern front where they
are driving for Tikhoretsk Russian
infantry regiments took several in
habited planes along with prison
ers and spoils, and in a fierce bat
tie for one Of the places captured
killed more than 200 Germans and
disabled two enemy tanks.
In the North Caucasus, the noon
communique reported, the Russians
took numerous inhabited places dur
ing the night.
Tank men in one North Caucasus
sector killed 400 Germans and took
100 prisoners thus wiping out what
remained Of retreating enemy bat
talon Of 1000 men.
The noon communiQue announced
that in the area of Armavir. down
the Caucasus railroad from Kropot-
kin, a Russian unit captured zoe
field guns, 1877 trench mortars, 12t
machine guns, several thousand
rifles, 229 tommy guns, 1853 anti-tanE
rifles, 1000 artillery shells, 5000
aerial bombs, 100000 rounds OF am
munition and several ammunition
dumps.
The special Stalingrad and the
midnight communique had said:
"Our troops on the Don front
continuing their offensive against
the German Fascist troops surround.
ed in the Stalingrad, after fierce
fighting and having overcome nu-
merous powerful enemy forttfica'
lions, finished in the main the
liquidation of the surrounded
groups.