Winter Conditions Taking Hand In Fighting

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13769, 12 October 1942, Page 3

Winter Conditions Taking Hand In Fighting

Ng c oMPLAINING OF SNOW IN 5E EASTERN CAUCASUS

IN BATTLE FOR STALINGRAD; t 0 WELCOME RESPITE

MEMY FRONT LINE TROOPS SAID TO BE EXHAUSTED

London, Oet. 11. ■V s that General Winter is beginning to take a al,< ! if* (r in Russia, and the Germans are already be,ciin the 1" D - fhe increasing difficulties they are experiencnf «•* cokler "tf th g, . . , ; j;a rtSlUl \ t | iat SIIOW is increasing in the higher country in "iX v re Jl o1 ’ sns where in the past few days they have been :‘^ rn ii nut but unsuccessful effort to drive through to the , mc | t | iey say that in some places the snow is three

] •:** ctor s their operations are being- held up by rain. | hnotiei. . (1 to be attacking in the eastern Caurin Germans cue objii . II their assaults have tailed. I &** wee i lS of terrific fighting in which the whole fury j war machine has been thrown against the city of j y |/j u n in the fighting there has occurred, and it looks as fvlallant defenders have at last won a respite. ''fln lias been very little fresh news from this vital sector of Jln front and the Soviet forces are reported to be engaged ’• X' themselves in and reconnoitering the enemy positions, 'flrrin'' to the position here, the Germans talk of a temporary and" say "that both sides are busily engaged in preparing for a nile'eorresp onclent says the lull is due to the exhaustion of the mu front-line troops. Xortlmvest of the city Marshal Timoshenko s army is reported jve further improved its position. There have been heavy Ger-3counter-attacks but these have all been repulsed. On enemy ■ifsucceeded in crossing the Don but it was driven back badly Xthe north, jfist south of Leningrad, the Germans are still ting desperately to regain lost ground, but these attacks have ra unsuccessful. There is nothing to report from the central and Voronezh Sill,