NAZIS STILL HELD AT STALINGRAD

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 285, 31 August 1942, Page 5

NAZIS STILL HELD AT STALINGRAD

Soviet Strength Grows

ADVANCE CONTINUES ON CENTRAL FRONT

(British Official Wireless and Press Assn.)

(Received August 30,7.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 29. Demanding the seemingly impossible from airmen and soldiers on both sides, yet another week of slaughter has ended on the Stalingrad front, with the Germans apparently being successfully held in all sectors. The “Pravda” says the Russians are launching ever-increasing counter-attacks north-west of Stalingrad and are continuing to push back the Germans and inflict severe losses. Thousands of German dead lie before the Russian positions. The Russian troops in other sectors are successfully repelling the German onslaughts. The Germans are doing their utmost to reach the Volga at all costs and are bringing in new tanks and troops and hitting at one place after another, but the strength of the Russian resistance is growing. Meanwhile, the Russians on the central front have continued to advance against stiff enemy resistance. In one sector of this front Soviet troops attacked a strongly-fortified region where the Germans had erected a great number of fortifications and laid many minefields. A Soviet unit broke the enemy defence and, despite strong resistance, dislodged the enemy from one locality and then proceeded to dislodge them from a further six localities. There is no indication of any further German advance in the* Caucasus, while the Germans who have been attempting to retake their 1 lost ground on the Leningrad front have been frustrated after five days of fighting.