REDS GRINDING DOWN HUNS AT STALINGRAD

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 235, 5 October 1942, Page 3

REDS GRINDING DOWN HUNS AT STALINGRAD

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Battle For City Likely To Rc Prolonged Th - : P i!iut,on , [ ;°s, r '?' V ° ct - 4 - *1111- -I. ten -<-■ - ahnprad rer*r<"T» 'Juriim ,iie u-eok 01 "' , but two r; "- ■ n<l suggest nnn hfgmning to |J. "r' K . down " "f Am r.-iiif, rJ.» fruit - The ri!Tnnrln-.| l. m Hie r,, r! lts - has not aing to I,,|| lu.ility is begininnthr- .Jil-t.p', 1 ,i"i l ,'- hc t )as t few h'shly f ,-KTi«,u.d vvll ich is training inHmi,. " C ,ec « u iring mc a, pn„fk . 1I(I, T tappers actrepcin that " lc Russians a 'Jiforderly n-t r f,i ~' :n f l l riy madG ril In,n, rt . ,f' ,' 1 .. another sector. Their is m, , "V" .V sun ' cnde red. r niph,--jsi "iln-c i' to overwind," hiu ' a y v . s in the week end m which t'hi o ' l 'i 0 • with a hare made the ] C K , Axis forces thr hdtfle for stnlii'' '. 'i°p ress since The Tilve mAJ h 1,(1 hegan. M , ".narrow confines. In Sv%^^S 1 ih t T

Bitter Gen.i.in Resistance I h<? <iermnns ore bitterly wmtpm. in£ e\erv foot, north-west of Stalin ' no,n " !lru c .tdvanced 200 vards in one sector, taking tlto first line of "tior" Pn i' ' ICS on ' v after many u f,ru ' hammering, in which jfsut «!MS& bJ f i P, l,'\:Z ory pi ; ospect that tlie . SnV m n < lll , lgrafl W1 " 8° on for ,lmo ■ v '' t - according to news tnrlxv'- p^ sf!! ? KI ' s fnjm Moscow, and anothor m, SSl; '' n commun iciuc records . i gain m the swaying thn ? "1 £ ,llc ci, >' area , and also -a .1* i° a Rumanian regiment + frli!!i i° *t r i |c Russians' contmuod ofTons'yc north-west of Stalinfions f <ipll,rin S nL ' w German posiHa,k iM *<»fh. W e ß t flehtini rt : por, . s ya >" fierce street Ihi n?,"-- ra K |n * 111 -Stalingrad, and the Rut«i,ms report more progress in TK2 r n aUaCkS on thc Gei »ian flanks. hi?<f Russians are still holding back «LJ?. vy and contlnu ous tank and in«^h/i«rf t . t i acks ' and in day and night '■Shting the enemy has been unable JO drive forward. Ruined buildings ec i n r , onst;jnt ly changing hands, and in (ho past 21 hours thi enemy has gained ground in only one sector north of the city. Elsewhere the defenders have either held their ground in tho face of repeated attempts by tho Germans to force them back or have pushed the enemy out of occupied positions. The great workers' settlement in the north-west, where the Germans had succeeded in establishing a strong foot hold, is now once more tartly in Soviet hands, and a vital hill has been attacked again and again by the enemy without success, and at very heavy cost in men and machines.

The Russians attacking on the German flanks both north-west and south-west of Stalingrad have made further progress in the past day's fighting and in tho north-west are elOwly and methodically breaking through the elaborate defences of the enemy.