Germans Go To Earth In Stalingrad
(Rec. 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 18. The Russians south-west of Stalingrad, after thwarting another enemy thrust, have advanced ancL captured a number of fortified points. The Germans have gone to earth in Stalingrad city. They are not fighting unless compelled. They are hanging on by their eyebrows to what they hold among the ruins, because behind them lies only the bitter steppes, with starvation or death from cold. Warm Funkholes The Germans under smoke-screens, have built warm funkholes in which to withdraw, while skeleton gun crews hold the line. The Stalingrad line meanders snakelike through factory yards, streets and gardens. Trenches in some sectors run so closa that a stranger would not be able to distinguish Russian from German lines.
“Red Star” says that sappers are breaking the defence deadlocks by tunnelling under the German honeycomb, which links pillboxes and mining shelters and dugouts. /
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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1942, Page 5
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