THE SHELTER PROBLEM
ENEMY RAGE AGAINST
WEATHER
(By Telograph—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, October; 22. Messages from Moscow say that the weather is playing a vital part in the Caucasus, wheie the ..enemy is. making an effort to bustle across the mountain passes to the south before the snow piles high enough to halt all movement. .
In addition to the quagmired streets slowing up the enemy attacks -oh Stalingrad, the Germans are hard put to find 'shelter for. troops, because there are no large inhabited localities near the city for billets. The cold, driving rain continues, with' some snow in the steppeland. --:---- - The German tank assaults have .already diminished appreciably, and the "Red Star" considers that the Germans are husbanding their heavy tanks, hoping to throw them in at a decisive moment for a break-through."" ~ "■' " The newspaper adds that the enemy in the past 10 days has lost 4000 men in' bitter fighting for a mountain road. The German High Command said in a statement that the operations in the
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 100, 24 October 1942, Page 7
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168THE SHELTER PROBLEM Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 100, 24 October 1942, Page 7
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