PINGER DEFENCE DEVELOPING

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15163, 2 October 1942, Page 3

PINGER DEFENCE DEVELOPING

SECOND EDITION

RUMANIANS SUFFERING HEAVILY FROM RUSSIAN TACTICAL MOVES. TO THREATEN AXIS FLANKS. i (Received 12.28 p.m.) United Piess Assn.— J3y Electric Tolegranhr—Cony right. LONDON, October 1. The Russians are retaking, one hill alter another in the Novorossisk area says the Moscow radio, but nothing yet indicates that these are mora than large scale local actions, though cumulatively. thev are taking a. heavy toll of the Axis forces and they provide grounds for hope that the Russians may prevent an Axis consolidation north of the Caucasus mountains and impede any advance eastward from the Mostfok area by maintaining a threat to the Axis rear and Hank. The Russians routed thy Third Rumanian Mountain Division and occupied several populated points and some important heights. Russian marines routed a Rumanian battalion and captured an important bill. The Germans and Rumanians however are fighting tenaciously and constantly counterattacking. Olio Russian unit has beaten off 14 attacks in four days. A suggestion that the Russians have begun a second claw uf a pincer against the Germans in Stalingrad is contained in a news agency despatch irom Moscow which says the Russians have taken initiative south of Stalingrad where Russian infantry under a curtain of fire from the Volga flotillas guns ousted the Germans and Rumanians from three settlements.