THE CAPITAL TIMES
MADISON, WIS., WEDNESDAY, JULY 29,1942
Russians' Caucasus Defense Stiffens
Axis Drives
Are Aimed At
Rail Routes
German Armies Re-inforced,
Push Three
Spearheads
122 NAZI PLANES
SHOT DOWN, CLAIM
Rome Radio Say Big
Guns Shell Stalingrad
BY EDDY GILMORE
_MOSCOW— (AP) —The Russian
defense of the Caucasus
showed signs of stiffening
today as the steadily reinforced
German drive across
the lower Don shaped Into
spearheads toward Kushchevka,
Salsk and the Tikhoretsk-
Stalingrad railroad linking
the oil fields to central Russia.
A communique said the Red
army was "displaying stubborn resistance"
after being forced back
in the Bataisk area, 15 miles south
of Rostov along the main railway
to the oil port of Baku. Kuschevka
is a station on this line 45 miles
south of Rostov.
The Germans also were meeting
stiff resistance against • secondary
thrust developing down a spur line
angling southeast from Bataisk to
the junction with the Tikhoretsk-
Stalingrad railway at Salsk. 100
miles southeast of Rostov.
Farther up the Don, midway between
Rostov and Stalingrad, the
Germans battled fiercely under
shellfire and bombing in an attempt
to enlarge at least three
bridgeheads on the south bank of
th« river in the Taimlyansk area,
when the Don flows within J5
miles of the last rail line between
Riusu tnd tb« Caucasus.
paper, said Russian airmen, some
of them flying United States-made
Airacobra fighters, had shot down
122 German planes in aerial combat
over the north Caucasus and
Don bend battlefields.
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