Late News

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 2, 28 September 1942, Page 6

Late News

FIGHT AGAINST TIME Timoshenko’s Army RELIEVING FORCE APPROACHING

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received September 28, 1.30 a.m.)) LONDON, September 27.

Marshal Timoshenko’s forces in Stalingrad are fighting against time because while the defenders are holding out, the relieving Russian army from the north is driving toward the city. The German High Command lias admitted that the relieving force has pierced the German main positions on the hills north of Stalingrad. “Red Star” declares that the German forces in Stalingrad are wearing out. “It is possible for us to hold them,” it says.

"There are signs that the Germans are getting near the point of exhaustion,’’ says Reuter’s Moscow correspondent. The German screen between the Russian defenders and the relieving army has become thinner and the next few days and even the next 24 hours may turn the balance either way. Fighting is so entangled in some Stalingrad districts that the, Germans have been forced to give up bombing for fear of slaughtering their own troops. German tanks at first took advantage of Stalingrad’s broad boulevards for massed onslaughts, but the Russians destroyed 20 to 30 tanks daily, forcing the enemy to modify his methods. The Volga “little navy” of gunboats nightly escorts supplies across the river while the Volga flotilla called “Floating Tanks,” which lias been reinforced with larger guns, maintains a ceaseless supporting barrage against the German lines.

Moscow radio says the Russians at Mosdok are taking advantage of dense fogs for regrouping and surprise attacks. A Russian submarine attacked a Rumanian convoy in the Black Sea and sank the destroyer Marasesti.