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MOSCOW--Soviet troops, carrying the fight to the enemy in the central Caucasus, inflicted heavy losses on the Germans southeast of Naichik Monday and near Mozdok stormed a Nazi command post in the first major action there in more than two weeks, the Russinas reported today...
...Germans have attained their minimum objectives in the northwestern Caucasus. They hold Rostov, the naval base at Novorossisk, the Maikop oilfield 65 miles from the coast, the upper reaches of the Transcaucasian railway between Rostov and the Caspian. Last week they were fighting for Tuapse, a minor port on the Black Sea, 270 miles across winter-locked mountain passes from Batum...
Slowly and at great cost, the Germans have advanced in the central and eastern Caucasus to within 150 miles of Makhach-Kala on the Caspian, where the best shore route to Baku begins. They have the Malgobek oilfield near Mozdok, but they do not have the Grozny fields, although the Russians last week admitted that in that sector they were still retiring. The Germans also advanced past Nalchik toward Ordzhonikidze...
...lost the Ukraine's great feeding ground (see p. 36). Before the Don was lost, the Russians themselves said that it was second only to the Volga in national importance. If they have not been cut off from the oil, fish and ports-of-entry in the Caucasus, their access has been gravely impeded...
...cross the Caucasus the Nazis will need lots of motorcycle cats. The Gelandegangige Fahrzug carries three men with cannon and machine guns. Its close tracks and motorcycle steering are for special use by Alpine troops on narrow, twisting mountain trails, have also served well in Russian...