Show RUSSIANS CRUSH NAZI ATTACKS Artillery Breaks Move To Spear Traps LONDON Jan 5 UP The P-The The Russians in a sp special c al que quo broadcast Tuesday r night claimed recapture of four key cities In the Don and Caucasus Caucasus' areas MOSCOW Jan 5 UP UP Rus Rus Russian sian troops smashed desperate German counterattacks on on three southern fronts in grim battles under a moonless sky during the night In which ev every ry weapon from tanks to bayonets and rifle butts were brought into play Realizing that their defeats were assuming the proportions of ofa ofa ofa a general disaster the Germans Germans' threw massed tanks and infantry into counterattacks on the Caucasus Caucasus Caucasus Cau Cau- casus middle Don and south- south southwest Stalingrad fronts H Hemmed romed in in hopelessly in a big Caucasus village the Germans massed all their reserves of in infantry infantry in- in fan fantry try and tanks and arid hit the theRus Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian line in hope of breaking through The h Russian artillery in action in-a in ln in a. a matter matter of of seconds rained shrapnel and and high explosives on the advancing enemy and knocked o out t eig eight t tanks before they r reached ached the lin lines s. s to Iland to Fight Then in a clash of Infantry i against infantry the noon c cOrn com m- m reported the red army troops in iii to hand-to-hand fighting with bayonet and rifle butt smashed the ene enemy y captured the village and began to pick up the b bodies dies of the German dead who remained in In Inthe the the- streets This was but part of a night of ofard I hard ard fighting in which the Russians Russians Russians Rus Rus- swept sweet through several l addi addi- towns villages and district centers in their Caucasus offensive w which i h threatened t to sp split spilt it the German German German Ger Ger- man armies and force them to retreat all the way to on onDon onDon onDon Don odd miles to the north north- if they dan can an On the middle Don front the Germans in their second big night c counterattack sent newly arrived men nen against the red army in another another another an an- other out break attempt Tanks Flank Germans Great Russian KUm Klim tanks raced around t to the flank of the attackers crashed into their line knocked d out 49 German tanks comi completely disorganized d the enemy f forces and sent them fleeing in retreat t. t H Here re the Russians found several hundred dead on the field th the noon said Here as in the Caucasus the Russians RuSsians' continued a gen general ral offensive offensive offensive of of- which the noon said won th them m a n number of new inhabited places The third big German counter- counter Continued on P Page e Four Column One I II I RUSS BREAK BREAKUP UP NAZI ATTACKS from Pace Page ps attack t was made on the southwest eat eat- south couth Stalingrad front The Germans attacked in force only to be thrown back in disorder the noon said while In Sn other sectors red army men advanced l to storm and capture several everal villages S Russian artillery following follo close behind the infantry ranged a German Gelman Gel Ger- man airdrome and in a pulverizing ing bombardment of the runways and nd plane dispersal r i bays destroyed 11 U grounded German erman planes and t four tour the noon corn com com I i iQ Q lT t Serles S of f Advances S In all the Russians continued an unbroken series of advances on fo four r main battlefronts along their mile 1100 offensive line Caucasus Une-Caucasus Caucasus middle Don southwest south-southwest Stalingrad Stalingrad Stalingrad Sta Sta- and center On the central front west of Moscow the Russian night fighter troops swept across thick mine minefields minefields minefields fields and ripped through heavy barbed wire broke through a strongly fortified village southwest of Luki Lukl and ousted the enemy nemy after a ferocious fight the noon said They captured captured cap cap- nine machine guns four trench mortars a headquarters station and an ammunition S tion bon dump West est of Russian scouts cut tut through to the German rear blew up several earth and timber forts and killed the approximately approximate 30 SO Germans in them The noon reported S. S small enemy c counterattacks during the night in this west area In the streets of Stalingrad Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian troops sneaked through German German German Ger Ger- man positions during the night to attack l and capture several buildings build build- II ings In the northern factory district district dis dis- dis- dis the noon report ed ad d while in other areas scouts reconnoitered reconnoitered re- re en enemy my positions and and the artillery exchanged salvos with the Germans Northwest of Stalingrad the Russian artillery increased its activity activity activity ac ac- ac- ac smashed seven enemy block block- houses and dugouts blew up an ammunition dump and dispersed a concentration of ot German Gennan troops In a new major victory the Russians Rus Rus- Monday captured the town of and Its ha adjoining adjoin adjoin- ing railroad station of Cherny- Cherny miles west vest of Stalingrad Stalin grad the on-the railroad which extends to where it connects with the Moscow line Une And I This success on the middle Don front w which brought the Russians I an important ene enemy enemy base base was reS reported reported reported re re- re- re S ported in a special S which said the red army captured S with the town 11 17 grounded airi airplanes airplanes air air- i planes airplane bombs and andS andr r S artillery shells |