Show Germans Retreat in Disorder In Caucasus Area Nazis Blow Up Bridges Mine Roads In Attempt to Escape Fierce to Cossacks sacks Slashing at Their Flanks By y J HENRY RY El MOSCOW J Jan n. n 6 UP UP The The Germans are arc in disorderly reI retreat retreat re re- re- re treat west in the Caucasus front dispatches said Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wed Wed- I a and d are blowing up p bridges and mining roads in an at at- tempt to e escape cape from swift I ing cossacks who are slashing at their flanks I The red army fanning out west I and and- north of 28 miles mUes west of stepped up the pace of its advance in an attempt attempt attempt at at- tempt to convert a German retreat into a rout Close behind the the-cos- sacks we went t tank and infantry units to mop up any islands ot of resist resist- ance London newspapers c car carried a r r i e d large headlines saying German Germane Germans Ger Ger- man mans mane were in retreat in Russia Front dispatches revealed that it was the fighting fierce cossacks who made anade the first breakthrough that led to the German defeat at and The red army offensive in the south Stalingrad sector picked up momentum too after the seizure of the axis stronghold of Ts I I in the south arm of the I Don bend The army newspaper I Red Star said the city fell after a two day battle in which the German garrison was annihilated Then the red army began fanning put out and Red Star said the operations operations operations opera opera- now had secured all of the eastern half of the Don bend for forthe forthe forthe the Russians The Russians harrying the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans at every possible point started started started start start- ed an offensive directly west of Stalingrad the soviet noon com corn reported Striking out from the west bank of the Volga river Tuesday the Russians by Wednesday morning morning morning morn morn- ing had ripped through the first German defense line and captured dozens of trenches and dugouts and two important heights This newest in the astonishing astonishing- Continued on Page Four Column Three Germans Retreat in Disorder As Cossacks Slash Flanks Flank Continued on oct Pg Peg Two series of red army winter offensives cC- cC of ot- started with a a. terrific artillery bombardment Infantrymen including the famous fa fa- f amous a- a guards re regiments moved forward orward under cover of a a. creeping creep creep- ing ng barrage broke through the wire wirO and nd machine g gun n cover and penetrating the first enemy line Jine c captured d 20 trenches and dugouts Last night the assault troops stormed and captured two heights in n fierce fighting the noon com corn said laid ald and in addition captured cap cap- captured dozens more trenches In addition to killing hundreds of Qt enemy troops the Russians Russians' captured captured cap cap- prisoners both Tuesday during dur dur- ing tug the night and large stores of war sp spoils ils including four field guns a and d 16 machine guns The nights night's had not eez count counted ed when the noon c co was issued Dugouts Wrecked In Stall Stalingrad ad city the Russian artillery laid down a heavy b bombardment born bom m- m throughout the night wrecking 12 enemy dugouts in the northern fa factory ory district n The Germans continued desperately desperately desperately des des- to supply their starving Stalingrad garrison and and the Russians Rut Rus us- us slant Tuesday shot ahot down nine German planes plane in the metropolitan area the midnight said On the middle Don front now merging fully with the southwest- southwest south Stalingrad fronts in one g gi gigantic gl- gl gantic ganti steam roller attack toward Rosty the Russians continued all alJ night to sweep the Germans before before before be be- be- be fore them the noon said They captured several hundred places between dark darl and dawn One unit alone killed all l but about men of ot an entire battalion of 1000 Germans and captured three tanks two armored cars and 11 field gun guns The survivors were taken thien prisoner Count Smashed In another sector ector the Germans Germane counterattacked trying to reach an encircled garrison The Russians Rue Rus I slant crumpled up their infantry and tanks killing kUling Germans and destroying six tanks On the middle Don front Tuesday Tues day the Russians Russian had stormed and captured the important cities of ol lo oro ky miles southwest or Stalingrad and kaya rr miles southwest of Stalingrad whence the Germans German started their 8 summer offensive Here the tie army of Genera General General Gen Gen- era eral N. 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F op operating east of the R Moscow toV railroad had cut the Stalingrad Stalingrad- railroad at Moi and had smashed as tar far south as the Don river bend to close an another other semicircle around th the 22 German German Ger Ger- man divisions trapped in the Don Don- V Volga olg area f Capture Supply Base At the Russians captured a. a great reat German supply base hue Several small ameR towns and villages were taken in hi the he middle Don One entire garrison which put up a. a death fight tight was wiped out except for or those who surrendered The Themen Themen men who gave up included troops of an borne air infantry division landed as a a. last Jast hope With them surrendered commander d a. a German regimental I South and southwest of Stalingrad Stalingrad Stalin Stalin- grad the Russian assault troops took a a. fortified populated place 1 They killed Germans Germana and capt captured cap cap- t nine field guns assorted weapons pounds of grain and many head Of cattle which had been stolen from Russian civilians s. s Th The Germans made on one desperate desperate des des- night counterattack on th the Stalingrad d front fron the he noon reported They sent 14 massed tanks against a sector held by the guards who with antitank guns and rifles rines set fire tire to five ive tanks The Th remaining nine turned back |