LOCAL GAINS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13772, 15 October 1942, Page 5

LOCAL GAINS

SOVIET FORCES Stalingrad Battle Timoshenko’s Drive London, Oct. 14. h defenders of Stalingrad have lie some local gains but otherwise sis no change in the general alien. Sharp hut brief skirmishes • taking place between Russian 3 German infantry. •Wing goes on at a slackened ft and for the first time there is mention of Stalingrad in the MosT communique. fiercest fighting still takes ' ,e in the north-west suburbs, '■ :i firing the past 24 hours of enemy infantry about a ‘ l,lOll strong have been success- . -ealt with by Soviet forces, who ; Mred buildings lost the pre',ijab At no point are the Gerany n earer the centre of the ■ artillery duels are in

rf* Stal !ngrad Marshal Timo-■-:s forces in the north-west are flight but steady progress. lians are attempting counter,VJ° le '' e ve the pressure on “ ®ank but the Russian army •atessfuliy dealt with these. of Novorossisk Soviet to be attacking noi ’tb. The Germans ' ered heay y casualties. On an Axis report, unconii, W ' in ’ stat es that German ~ on! y 15 miles from the ■iibp PSe ° n the Black Sea. n^ Ueasus the enemy made i 1 ‘ m the Mozdok area in W SSIOn but tbs Red Army !: e thl>usts and then went l ' liei a battle lasting three