CONTINUAL STRONG ATTACKS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 32, 2 November 1942, Page 5

CONTINUAL STRONG ATTACKS

Germans In Stalingrad (Received November 1, 8.50 p.m.) LONDON, October 31. This morning’s Soviet communique and supplement indicate no furtherprogress by the Germans in Stalingrad in the past 24 hours, in spite of continual strong attacks. The other chief centres of fighting are at Nalchik, 50 miles south-west of Mosdok, and north-east of Tuapse. The fury of the German assaults on the factory area in Stalingrad shows no abatement. The Germans are pushing in men and tanks regardless of losses. They sacrificed 3000 men for a gain of 50 yards in one sector. The Germans inside Stalingrad are trying to gouge the Russians out by driving down the Volga bank. Progress of Relief Drive. The Russians driving from south of Stalingrad have taken three more villages. ' The Germans are acknowledging the danger of the drive. Berlin radio said that Marshal Timoshenko is attempting to break the German front and has shifted the main weight of the relief drive from north to south. Violent tank battles in the northern suburbs of Stalingrad yesterday resulted in the destruction of 16 German tanks, and the Germans failed to make any progress. The Russian relief army in the north of Stalingrad made its first night attack and gained • another line of trenches manned by Rumanians. It is a month yesterday since Herr Hitler promised that Stalingrad would fall. Yesterday, after 70 days of re-lentless-battering, anonymous heroes at Stalingrad are still answering that boast with deeds which ring louder and will resound longer than Hitler’s words. STREETS RECAPTURED More Soviet. Troops Cross Volga (Received November 1, 11.55 pan.) ■ LONDON, November 1. The Russians have recaptured some streets and a building in the Red October district. The Germans attacked one factory building six times but failed to gain a foothold. Berlin radio eays that' the Russians have brought more troops across the Volga, south of Stalingrad. The Russians hope to strike the German rear from the Krasnoarmeisk area, south of the city. About twelve Russian landingboats, each holding 100 men, attempted a landing north of Stalingrad. Most of them were driven off, the radio claimed. Troops landed from three boats, but were mown down. The Russians threw in strong air forces west of Moscow in preparation for tlie proposed winter offensive. , TRAINING FOR WAR Children In Russia MOSCOW, October 30. All Russian boys and girls between the ages of 8 and IS will be trained in war duties under a decree which has been issued. Military training is being introduced as a compulsory subject in elementary schools from the fourth year upward. Comprehensive military training from the fifth to the tenth years will be under the command of army officers. The training of boys will include grenade-throwing, rifle-, machinegun, and anti-tank gun shooting, chemistry, and skiing. Girls will be trained as. nurses and radio telephone operators. . MESSAGE TO SOVIET WOMEN New Chairman Of T.U.C. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 31. “Many of the things you had achieved in your formidable task are now in ruins. They will have to be done all over again. But Fascism cannot be rebuilt, after we together have destroyed it-,” declared Miss Anne Loughlin, recently elected chairman of the Traded Union Congress, in a message of greetings to the wolnen of Russia, published today in the Kuibyshev English language newspaper “Britansky Soyuguik. ’ She said her election to the chairmanship of the T.U.C. had been an expression of the general feeling that women were joined in equal partnership with men in the task of winning this war.