SOVIET TANK ACTIVITY.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 77, 28 September 1942, Page 5

SOVIET TANK ACTIVITY.

Later news from Stalingrad is that I Soviet tanks are most active in the nevy phase of the street battles, in which they are often wresting the initiative from the Germans. Soviet tanks are crashing into German machine-gun nests at first-storey windows. The German tanks avoid direct combat, but crawl behind the infantry, "who attack the Soviet tanks w«"v explosives. Russian sources do not substantiate the German claim to have advanced as far as the Volga under the support of dive-bombers. Moscow reports that the Germans in one sector at Stalingrad succeeded, at a cost heavy in losses, in penetrating the Russian defence lines. Russians are fiercely engaged in trying to mop up this group. In the Mozdok area, two enemy infantry regiments, supported by 60 tanks, were checked, with heavy German losses, by a Russian counterattack, nine tanks being destroyed and two infantry companies being wiped out. South-east of Novorossisk stubborn fighting took place for one height. Three hundred enemy officers and men were killed, and much booty was captured. Soviet artillery routed one enemy company which attempted to drive a wedge into the Russian defence lines. On the north-western front there have been engagements of local importance.