GERMANS STILL HELD.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 33, 18 November 1942, Page 4

GERMANS STILL HELD.

THE ATTACK AT STALINGRAD. ' SOVIET TANKS IN CAUCASUS. ‘ i \ LONDON, NOv. 17. *<• The Russians ate still consolidating their positions in the Stalingrad area . - and in the Caucasus. At Stalingrad enemy. attacks have again been on a ismall scale, but they have been costly ;Jto the Germans, who have gained no 'ground. \ On the southern sector of the Stalin- • grad .front Russian infantry and artilflery . activity has been increasing. I In the western Caucasus Soviet ; driven a wedge into enemy positions. Active fighting is still going on. j Noar the Black Sea port of Tuapse -an enemy attack on a height has been repelled- - :

The Germans are making no headway at either end of the Caucasus, and norhPeakt, of Tiiapse they have actually keen at a standstill for more than two. wieeks. It. is believed that they wiihitry to establish their winter line there.: V: f '

South-east of Nalchik, German panzers have been battering at the Soyiet defences. The Germans have used as 'many as 30' tanks at a time as a" spearhead for the infantry, buf without success. The .Russians have not yielded any ground.

The Moscow radio says that a submarine of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet has returned' from a cruise lasting seven days, during which it penetrated an enemy minefield and sattk three transports. On the return trip it sank a fourth transport.