Menacing Pincers Driving To Volga

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 200, 25 August 1942, Page 3

Menacing Pincers Driving To Volga

STALINGRAD'S DANCER Fierce Enemy Air Attacks On Soviet Black Sea Bases (United Press Association.-Copyright._Rec. 1 p. m .) □ ,i . . LONDON, August 24 grad have "mid," pJogre,s'™d Ih'Tt mOVement "Sainst Stalinstate chat t he positi on ihe J"" "T° r " from deteriorated in the past 24 hours. ** '° ° lty 3S seriousl y decisive battle tor great huge German'Snk 'forct rsTdvardr e P ° ndent L" OSCOW sa V* a north-east of Kotelnikovo and threaf aCr ° ss bl az »ng steppes and reach the Volga south of the citv Thf C° y " pa f 3 Sta, j n g r ad driven a wedge into the outer rim of the R """"j a ' ady vital Stali„ gr ad-Mo,cow railways defen «»- lery and air bombardment a,rea dy under constant artiltank, and infantry . whicL CoiedA,"'n ly C " m '" south-east of Kletskava »«. «!! 5 r °" y esterda y in force to reach this railway. The Red Armv'" 8 f °rward m an attempt to hold up the German steam " dcSPCrale eff ° rU Grave Position in North Caucasus grave in the Caucalul* 11 ' sltuation j« equally moved some distance south from kT j' ern ? an s P e arhead has Novoroaaisk, on the Black Sea ff k* rai,wa y to attempt, to wipe out Ws^' is meeting with fierce opposition from tk D • *? but The Russian Black Sea Fleet is shellinc C * SB,ar ! . A,r F °rce. coast of the Sea of Azov. shelhn g German positions on the tared r pyaff°o"k W that the German, have cap. between Moscow nd ln . T f",' j A Russii "> eleven blockhomes beat off 8 1% d,sl ° d « ed \ h ' German, Germans. °® 13 """"'"-alack, and killed 650