NARROWED BATTLE AREA

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

NARROWED BATTLE AREA

FIGHTING MUCH MORE FEROCIOUS

LONDON, October 30

The infusion of six new German divisions into the third intensified assault against the Stalingrad factory area has not produced results except those measured by yards. The ferocity of the fighting has increased tenfold since the battle area was narrowed down. No quarter is asked or given. The machine-gunners in every street remain at their posts, and their fingers are clamped on to the triggers when their last breath is soent. Anti-tank gunners maintain fire at the advancing panzers till they are blown to shreds or horribly charred by the German flame-throwers. The Stockholm correspondent of "The Times" quotes a report published in Berlin-which says that the Germans now do not believe the Red October works and the strong railway district to the south can be taken by infantry, because infantry in the past few days have got stuck and have been able to achieve only very slight progress. IJhe Germans have been obliged to split up their efforts in several directions, while the Russian reserves in men and materials appear to cross the Volga inexhaustibly.

Moscow radio says that in a snowstorm which has been raging for seve-

ral days in the Caucasus hundreds of Germans have been frozen to death. A Moscow report-states that the Germans in the Stalingrad area, since the beginning of August, have lost 150,000 men and 2500 tanks.