STRONG NAZI THRUST
GAIN AT HEAVY COST.
(Rec. 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 27. Moscow reports that the Germans in one sector at Stalingrad succeeded at the cost of heavy losses in penetrating the Russian defence lines, and the Russians are fiercely engaged in trying to mop up this group. In the Mozdok area two enemy infantrv regiments supported by 60 tanks were checked with heavy German losses by a Russian counterattack, nine tanks being destroyed and two infantry companies being wiped out. , South-east of Novorossisk stubborn fighting took place for one height; 300 cnemv officers and men were killed and much booty captured. Soviet artillery routed one enemy company which attempted to drive a wedge into the Russian detence lines. On tho north-western front there were engagements of local importance.—Official AVireless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 256, 28 September 1942, Page 5
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