Attack On Stalingrad
LONDON, October 22. ', Dispatches from Moscow tonight say that the German onslaught against Stalingrad has slowed down. Three minor attacks on the factory belt in the northern part of the city were beaten back today, and the enemy is now faced with the prospect of increasingly bad weather.
The "News Chronicle" correspondent says in his dispatch' from Moscow that autumn rains are now falling, biting winds are blowing, and snow and sleet have begun to turn the steppes around Stalingrad into mud and slush.
Meanwhile the Russian forces operating against the German flank north-west of Stalingrad have driven nearer to the beleaguered city,, and after two days of fierce fighting have occupied a height from which Stalingrad can be distinctly seen.
The enemy seems to be making no progress in the Caucasus. On, the Black Sea side the Germans have been hampered by very bad weather. The German High Command said tonight that the forest tracks could no longer be used by transport columns. In the eastern Caucasus the Germans are keeping up their pressure in the direction of the Grozny oilfields, but they appear to have made no furtheir progress in the last 24 hours.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 99, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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