COVERED BY SNOW

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1942, Page 5

COVERED BY SNOW

.STALINGRAD FIELD

LONDON, November 15. Stalingrad is now snow-covered. The Germans are improving their defensive positions on the right bank of the Volga in anticipation of a large-scale winter push by the

Russians, and they admit that the Russians will be better able to

reinforce Stalingrad after the river

freezes over. Beuter's Stockholm correspondent says that German reconnaissance planes over the weekend reported that the Red Army, was massing forces on the eastern bank of the Volga, and also north-west of Moscow between Rzhev and Lake Ilmen.

The German.home front references to the renewal of the fighting in Stalingrad are most guarded, presumably, because the casualties there continue to worry the German public.

Th,e fighting in the northern factory area of Stalingrad has been more intense during the past four days than for Isome time. The Germans made a temporary* breach in one narrow sector ••. after concentrating planes and tanks.

The repulse of further enemy attacks in the factory district at Stalingrad is announced by the Soviet headquarters tonight At least 400 Germans were killed. South* of the city the-Russians ejected.the enemy from a fortifled area, killing 130. To the nor.th-west artillery duels continued. Moscow radio says that the Russians south-east "of Nalchik killed 2000 Fiimoninne in ri r nrm a n<- In«t wank luKnsnians ami oermano last weeK ncai'two towns which they liberated ixoth. jblaM.mmaii ,