STRATEGIC GAINS

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

STRATEGIC GAINS

RUSSIANS ADVANCE

Artillery Dominating Steppe Battlefield

Rcc 11 P n CSS Association Copyright 1 f P m - LONDON. Oct. 2 a L T1 moshenko's southern Russfans h^ n ' a " e hea <'way, and the Russians have recaptured a fourth strategic village. The Times Moscow correspondent savs the Russian com manders north-west of SSinS }l Y t ® not on 'y deployed a force which attem°nt S t e f n °V g L to meet any Ge ™an S .u stnkc northwards along Don and the v l , lroa( ' s Parallel to the rlmtin~ 6 V ° lg , a - but are als ° connttnrVf n s V cc f s sful and difficult attacks against German salients. n .™ series of heights taken by the ca lv in S 13 hl Shly important tactiarlin . Vlew of the dominance of i £in ste PP e fighting, i he Russian drive south of Stalinscale 1S apparentl y on a smaller

The German communique claims * o. i " uss ' an relief attacks north of btalingrad have been repulsed ine communique states that the Germans took the strongly-fortified Stalingrad suburb of Orlovska. In the Lake Ilmen region, south of Leningrad, a battle has been raging for four days. The Germans nave made strenuous attempts to break through the Russian lines, but every attempt has been repulsed.