GERMANS FOILED

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

GERMANS FOILED

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Fierce Battle Raging I n Town On Mosdok Front

Rec ni i ed n m CSS Association —Copyright FniL? v. • L °NDON. Oct. 4. along the'Black^Sea 161 "^ 8 t0 drive N'ovorossisk theSS outh of a fi P S >? strike towards S basin Kuban River edge of thp i?" 1 K g on the southern o u°the e r^, re tempting to smoke the forests; n" S by , setting' fire to are drifting Dense c ! ouds of smoke The fu wfff° V - er the c °mbatants. -7■ ''nn els making as many Uu4an S 2rHf. S daily .' mostly h '-' an ar tillery, which is again the fcS&M.i'bf d, ? fence ihS rri hll] y terrain. roads 0 lr an , lanks kep P to the here they are frequently TI-iJF A f° r the Russian guns, that th* r» man comm unique claims nil ?. Gernians south of the Terek fer jiave captured the strongly Verchni ° f Elchotov ° and

tho h Ai^T r U ians are bein S held in the Mosdok area, says a Moscow message, and the Russians norththrough *«. M osdok have smashed r-nm, ™ n ? erman fortifications to capture a point on the railway line skirt? a n7 y th . e battle into the out * = an '"habited locality. A fierce battle is raging for the Pho S t? Sl °i n , of r an inhabited place on the Mosdok front, where a German S insisting of four divisions, with heavy artillery and tank support, has partly occupied the position, o another Moscow report, but trie Soviet defenders are putting up a stubborn resistance. Soviet Marines are playing an important role in the fighting in liussia. One group stood for hours in the River Don with only the reeds to protect them, and launched floating mines. They swirled downstream and blew up two of the Germans' largest pontoon bridges, which had been used for the reinforcement and supply of troops assaulting Stalingrad. There is considerable air and land activity in the Leningrad area. In the Lake Ilmen region, south of Leningrad, a battle has been raging for five days. The Germans have made strenuous attempts to break through the Russian lines, but every attempt has been repulsed.