Enemy Advance Stemmed In Stalingrad

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 106, 31 October 1942, Page 7

Enemy Advance Stemmed In Stalingrad

LONDON, October 30.

The Germans have made no big progress at Stalingrad, where the Russians have been reinforced.

The enemy's only success today has been in the Nalchik area of the eastern Caucasus, where superior German forces have pushed the Russians back.

Russian pressure on the enemy's flanks north and south of Stalingrad has met with further success.

The Germans are still flinging masses of men and tanks into their renewed assault on . Stalingrad's northern industrial belt, but they have made no further advance since they broke into the factory area nearly 24 hours ago.

Fresh reinforcements have reached the Russian defenders of the city, and in a big tank clash Soviet forces, though outnumbered, more than held their own and drove the enemy back with the loss of 16 tanks.

The "News Chronicle" reporter says that the nmanians north-west of Stalingrad have taken terrific punishment and that all their attempts to regain their lost positions have failed.

South of Stalingrad Russian troops have succeeded in pushing forward in spite of very strong enemy fortifications.

Enemy attacks in the Mozdok area, 50 miles east of Nalchik, have temporarily come to a halt.

■ In • the ■ western Caucasus the Russians are holding the German day and night attack covering Tuapse. They have cleared the enemy from a number of heights and valleys and improved their positions in a number of sectors.