INVADING FORCES

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

INVADING FORCES

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 towards the city. The German High Command has admitted that the relieving force has pierced the German main positions on the hills north of Stalingrad. The "Red Star" declares that the German forces in Stalingrad are wear- | ing out. "It is possible for us to hold I them," it says. "There are signs that the Germans are getting near the point of exhaustion," says Reuters Moscow correspondent. "The German screen between the Russian defenders and the| relieving army has become thinner, I and the next few days and even the next 24 hours may turn the balance either way. The 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 a day, forcing the enemy to modify his methods." The "little navy" of gunboats on the Volga nightly escort supplies across the river, while the Volga flotilla called "floating tanks," which has been | reinforced larger guns, mainI tains a ceaseless supporting barrage aefiinst the German lines, Moscow radio says that the Russians at Mozdok 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 Marasestl.