ENEMY IN STALINGRAD

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 77, 28 September 1942, Page 3

ENEMY IN STALINGRAD

HARDEST FIGHTING IN I .THE CENTRE' ; .1 (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.),. (Rec. 2 '■p.m.).. LONDON, Sept. .27. A claim made by Moscow that 5000 Germans were killed in the various Stalingrad sectors during the weekend : indicates that the battle for* the city is raging with undiminished intensity. The Russians have made furtherslight progress in the drive from the north and have also recaptured several strongly-garrisoned houses in the north-western suburbs, but the Germans have strengthened their grip on the southern part of: the city. A German military spokesman said: "The greatest part of southern Stalingrad is in our hands, although every rum .still offers desperate local resistance. The hardest fighting is going on in centra! Stalingrad, where we hav£ captured six big buildings on the bank of the ;Volga, thus breaking the backbone of the Russian resistance in this area., The toughest Russian resistance -centres :on three enormous groups of factories in northern Stalingrad which" the Russians have transformed into incredibly strong fortresses. Factories on a height dominating, the city are being defended with very heavy • gunfire." The spokesman admitted that Russian forces penetrated the main German defence line north of the city. but claimed that they were cut off and annihilated. ; The' Stockholm correspondent of "The Times", reports that the Germans '•■ launched five more counter-attacks in.the attempt to dislodge the Russians <fronr- the ground gained in drive towards Stalingrad from • the -north. The counterstrokes did not achieve, positive success, and a virtual deadlock was reached in which both sides are pounding each other with guns of all calibres. : - / .'..•■■: