THE DOTHAN EAGLE
DOTHAN, ALABAMA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 18, 1S43
R.A.F. PLANES SET HUGE FIRES IN BERLIN
Nazis Retaliate Raid On London
Soviets Retake Millerovo,
Aim New Drive At Rostov
Russians Pouring Across Donets As
Offensive ExtendS Toward Voronezh
BT HENRY C. CASSIDY
MOSCOW (AP)—The. Red army's new offensive on the Voronezh
front, most northerly of the series of winter blows against the whole
Axis position In the southwest, was making new progress today 50
miles west of the Don along the railway to Kupyanak and Kharkov.
Front dispatches said the German lines were being rolled back
by slashing attack against garrisons In fortified cities, towns and planes.
villages. The direction of the main I thrust was toward the southwest.
A communique from Gen Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's headquarters
announcing that the vanguard of the British Eighth Army
had reached the vicinity of Bentfeild Indicated that his forces
taking a straight line across the Trlpoltania "hump" in an effort
to get to Tripoli by the shortest possible route.
Bentfeild is approximately 100 miles from the nearest point on the
coast and approximately the same distance from Tripoli.
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