AN ACUTE TURN
BATTLES IN THE SOUTH. STALIN AND THE DON BASIN. ENERGETIC COUNTER-ATTACKS. (Uuited Press Association —Copyright.) (Rec. 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 21. The Moscow radio declared that the Russians repulsed attacks near Stalin, but the Germans possess superiority in tanks, and the battles for Stalin and the Don Basin have taken an acute turn. Despite their superiority in tanks and motorised infantry the Germans in the Orel region have been held down to the positions front which they started. They have lost 150 tanks and over a regiment of infantry. We haie broken this carefully-prepared attack and closed the main roads which the Germans were using.” said the announcer. “Our energetic countei-at-tacks have held the Germans, who are looking unsuccessfully for weak spots. The fighting grows fiercer. Positions at Kalinin changed hands a number of times. Particularly heavy fighting is proceeding on the left flank. On one section the enemy retreated two miles, leaving important heights and three villages in Russian hands.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 9, 22 October 1941, Page 5
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