DEADLY FIGHTING IN GREAT FACTORY AREA

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 234, 3 October 1942, Page 5

DEADLY FIGHTING IN GREAT FACTORY AREA

STALINGRAD CRISIS

Hun Gains Inside And Reds Outside City

nor | U 'n m and British Wlre,css Although the 2 " art illcry, tanks and ° f arc squeezing fraction-it ™ t,r°°P s . terrific ro st on hnth Sains at city. The deadliest fi"h{?n~ -° f tho .gy&r^ n , r ;««wy'.?Sl

of the battie r; of^StoHnSad 1 i^'Se . ""SttW bombardments and ■I ; f Rhting have reached unpreromrniinimtinn i M ,l,ol fh the smoke froih and dust from crashing Kiissi.ni Belief Thrust If the situation inside Stalingrad s no better, the Russian relief thru" toward the Don elbow is making steady headway. The British United Moscow correspondent savs this thrust is making progress both between the Don and the Volga and from the kletskaya area, inside the Don bend. The Germans, after a big night, battle in the Kletskaya area withdrew from a number of ravines and heights and the Russians broke into the outskirts of a township Where fighting is going on. .Moscow messages report that north-west of Stalingrad the Red Army is pursuing the offensive in the face of powerful counter-attacks by masses of infantry, supported by Upwards of oO tanks. For the possession of one village alone the battle If now in its third day. The Germans arc still pourinc reserves into the north-western suburbs of the city to enabL their forces to keep up the pressure after their slight advance yesterday. In one narrow sector the enemy attacked with 70 tanks after intense bombardment with artillery and mortars. Within the city the Soviet guards under Major-General RodimtsefT, are engaged in street fighting with strongly entrenched Germans. In the one place, north-west suburbs where the Germans managed to push back the Russians, they paid dearly

for the success which thev achieved, mainly by tommy puns. More than Germans were killed in two days' fighting. The battle goes on In the Mosdok area, in the eastern Caucasus, where the Russians are resisting an onslaught by three motorised and infantry divisions, supported by 250 tanks, on a narrow front. In the Leningrad area the Luftwaffe is more active. In one day 13 enemy planes fell to Soviet fighters and anti-aircraft gunners, •nd next day 36 were accounted for.