The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-02
Four Main Armies AdvanC Along Parallel Courses
 OfBattIe Front Hss -FNt KRASNODAR IS BEING
 GRADUALLY ENCIRC CLEN E German Remnants Left i StaIingrad Undergo Ter.
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BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press staff CorreSpOndenta

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 Moscow, February 2: (UP) = Soviet armies drov0 steadily today toward their three chief objectives - Kursk, Kharkov and RostCv - Capture of which would restore last springs line and nullify the German gains oe the summer campaign. A6ss least four main forces WerGs advancing on parallel lines on tho long battle front from voronezh ta the North Caucasus. They cons verged rapidly on Adolf Hitlerie most important bases in centtAl and South Russia, threatened t@l cut off the rich 'Donets basin from the rear and advanced to within 42 miles of Rostov. N
 Colleen. Philip Golikov's forces were approaching KuTsk from tha northeast and southeast and both spearheads were within 60 miles of the German anchor point. They took several more inhabited points yesterday, wiped out Ski-equippe0 German tommy eilnners and ati|zIs Inflated specially trained enemy moe bile brigades. Several small enemy pockets clinging to small secticnei ! of the railroad were hquidated.
 Rail station Taken &
 Col. Gen. Nikolai F. vatutinSa forces severed the Kupyansk-Lishe ' ichiansk railroad 0l miles souths east of Kharkov, where they cape tured the rail station of SvatOY0A The Soviets also drove on KharkOV from the Valuid and Urazovo areas
 Swiftly mopping up the Kubalz valley of the Caucasus, Red army forces closed in on Krasnodar- -liext to Rostov the largest city in the northern Caucasus. A great age ricultural and rail center, Krasnos dar has Germany's larges air base in the Caucasus. It was threatened from the north, east and south, the closest Russian approach being % Ust Labinsk, 36 miles to the nortlls east.
 Other Russian forces drove along the Salsk- -Rostov railroad and reached the famous state farm aoE Verblud, 42 miles southeast of the Caucasus gateway city.
 MerciIess Fire
 At Stalingrad, Soviet arttlleJN opened @ lnerciless bombardment a1 dawn on the German remnants holding out and assault parties des stroyed German Qualifications ana took still more prisoners.
 The noon communique reporte4 that the few remaining German troops had now been scattered into individual groups.
 Fifteen hundred enemy troops haa been killed yesterday and many more taken prisoner, the midnighS communique had reported.
 On three other offensive frOnt& the Russians reported new gains a1s ter driving yesterday to within 08 miles of Kursk, on the southwese@s ern front, and 42 miles of Rostovs gateway to the Caucasus, on tl1a southern front.
 On tho west Voronezh front, th@' communique reported, numerous more populated places were taken during the night and this morning and an entire German battaiiCus 1000 men, Was wiped out. i
 Tanks pursuing fleeing enemy groups destroyed l3 field guns, ana many infantry and supply trucks and captured 120 prisonerc.
 In another sector IS guns ans 15O trucks were taken and 4eA prisoners taken. ,l
 Equipment Captured J
 Russian troops captured an addae tional inhabited place on the soutEAe
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