MASS ASSAULT
SKY BLACK WITH PLANES
(Rec. noon) LONDON, Oct. 29. After concentrating huge forces of infantry and tanks, the Germans renewed - their offensive against the Stalingrad factory area. They flung two panzer divisions and four infantry divisions, totalling 50,000 men, into the new mass assault on this district. The sky over Stalingrad was black with German planes showering bombs on the narrow northern area held by the Russians.
Moscow radio says that there were always 50 to 60 enemy planes overhead, dropping hundreds of bombs, in an effort to demoralise the defenders, but the Russians, standing up to the Germans' fierce onslaught, repelled all attacks.
A company of enemy motorised in-
fantry which broke through to the south-western outskirts of the factory was wiped out. Units of the Red Army are launching counter-attacks which frequently develop into hand-to-hand fighting.
The Moscow, correspondent of the Colombia radio system states that the Germans made ten separate assaults yesterday against the factory area in Stalingrad, but by evening had advanced only 150 yai'ds. The German news agency reports that the Russians, counter-attacking south of Stalingrad, reached the outskirts of Kuporosnoye, a village near the Volga on the southern outskirts of Stalingrad.
Despite blizzards and heavy snowfalls which are causing deep drifts and avalanches, front line dispatches to Moscow report a new flare-up along the whole Caucasus front. The Germans are employing large contingents of alpine troops in a vigorous effort to smash the Russian defences before the winter deadlock sets in. The Germans at Nalchik are pressing a large-scale offensive, attacking heavily with troops, artillery, and planes, in an effort to penetrate the deep Russian defences. The Germans are using akj and sleigh detachments .in fighting for snowbound mountain slopes and passes.
• Men of the Red Army north-east of. Tuapse, also equipped with skis and sleighs, repelled fierce attacks and captured a height
A vast battle continues east of Novorossisk, where the Russians, after routing the Third Rumanian Alpine Division, are fighting a fresh Rumanian division and also Austrian and Hungarian troops.
An official report from Helsinki says; that Russian bombers raided Helsinki last evening, dropping land. mines. Three persons were killed and nine injured. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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