Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-14
Red S
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BY HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, Jan. 14.-UP)-RuS-
sian tanks with tommy gunners
clinging to their sides ripped
through fiercely resisting German
infantry during the night and cap
tured a concentration camp deep
IN the enemy rear where herded
Russian civilian and Red army pris-
oners joyfully awaited them.
In another swift night attack on
The lower Don, Russian shock
Ubops tore through the German
defense line and tanning out be-
( hind the enemy main positions.
captured a number of villages, Wip-
ed out many German troops, cap
tured war materials and toook pris-
B AerS.
FLAMES DESTROYED
Storm group in Stalingrad city,
4 where the Russian attack now as
sumed important and portentous
size, captured 81 gun emplacements
and pill boxes and beat back coun-
tcraCtackS while night raiding Red
4 army planes swept down on an air.
4 drome outside the city to destroy
4 five grounded planes and shoot
down seven fighters which tried to
int ercept them.
These successes on three fronts
were reported in a noon commu-
nique which showed Russian
troops attacking ferociously and
without pause.
North Caucasus operations carried
the Russians into number Of pop
plated places between dark and
dawn. The Red army had captured
II towns in the area yesterday. most
OF them north of Gcorgievsk, 275
miles southeast of RoStov, and east
Qf the main railroad where remain
< Germans were being attacked
both from the south and from the
east. The Germans were being
pressed westward to the railroad
while the main Russian army drove
along it toward Armavir. 1876 miles
northwest of Georgievsk and 165
miles south-soCtheast of Rostov
BCMBERS GLIDE IN
A special dispatch to the news
paper PraVda said Russian stormO-
Vik dive bombers. gliding undetect-
ed at high altitude over the Kras-
nodar airdrome, had wrecked or
damaged 40 grounded German
planes in "a hours of attack and
had shot down two fighters as we'll
as Wrecking installations and fuel
dumps
On the raids on Krasnodar, $50
miles south of Rostov, where the
Germans have been massing planes,
the Russians were preparing for
their drive from the North Cau-
casus into the kuban river valley
and also for possible offensive in
the Black Sea area
The big night gain was that in
which the German concentration
camp was captured. Defending
German infantry was routed. The
OusSians toook 19 field guns, SO
trucks, three big haulage tractors
and war material dumps which
the Germans had thought safe-for
The moment-in their rear.
ARTILLERY ADVANCES
In another sector the Red ar /
tlllery, advancing right with the I
tanks, cavalry, motorized cavalry /
and infantry. went into the front |
lines and opened smashing bonn
bardment which knocked out six |
tanks and dispersed big cCncentra-
tionS of German trucks and infan-
tryrDcn. apparently getting ready
TO retreat.
The midnight communiquc had
1,nt in, ,yf,,. tt,,
in the North Caucasus yesterday
the Germans lost every one of II
tanks engaged, while the Russian
infantry thrust against the follow
ing German infantrymcn and sent
them fleeing for their lives.
In the lower Don fighting press
ing down the Stalingrad- -Tikho-
rctsk railroad toward Salsk, 100
miles southeast of Rostov, the Rus
slams during the night routed 1000
German infantrymcn with two
tanks and artillery tried to make
stand. The noon communique
reported 400 of the Germans killed
and six tanks and three field guns
destroyed. :
GERMAN TACTICS il
OI'hc Germans we're now trYin9 to
slow the Russians in the Don area
by maSSing men and tanks on mar
row sectors. They made a big
in one such opera
ton yesterday. the midnight COM
reported, only TO lose 1000
men killed and four field guns, 20 s
machine guns and "a trucks dc
stroyed The Russians captured five
guns, AZ machine gClS, an ar ,
mored car and several motor cars ,
and motorcycles. :
The Stalingrad city fighting !
showed a carefully patterned Rus
sian attack, during the night, the =,
crack Red army storm parties :
struck at the northern factory to :
take the enemy positions reported ..
by the noon cOmmunique.
Special dispatches reported that
in present North Caucasus opera
lions Lieut.. Gen. Ivan Maslenni- Il
iov was clearing up the area west r
and southwest of Georgievsk and
covering both of his flanks up the ;,
Hain Caucasus railroad on a wide !
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