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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 36, 6 November 1942, Page 5

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Attacks On Stalingrad Hurled Back THREAT IN CAUCASUS

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 5. N The have hurled back new attacks against Stalingrad, rind are stiffening to meet the German threat in the Caucasus. The Soviet communique says that Russian Guards in one factory in Stalingrad wipfed out a German detachment attempting to creep on the factory, and that all other German attacks were rnnftlled. ) .

In the central Caucasus, the Russians have .smashed a big concentration of Gerffiilii troops rind tanks south-east of Nalchik. Both sides ate rushing up reinforcements, the Russians stxeamii.ig along the Georgian Nlillti|Vy Highway to do battle with khat are reported to be 10 German infantry and two panzer divisions. The enemy has made unsuccessful attacks In the Mosdok area. Battle in Suburbs. ' LONDON, November 4. Th? figiititig in the Stalingrad area has again iilteiiSilied. , . Moscow radio says tiillt their tremendous losses are compelling the .Germans to bring up fresh forces, which are going to th? front immediately, they arrive. The Germans. ate pteteing most , heavily agaiiist Ute industrial suburbs, and attacking,,the jitissitin poSliipil's in sdffie sectors four,‘or five times a day'. ~ Strong forces of planes on .both sides afo alsb U action fit Stalingrad.. German timbers are again making over 1000 flights dally, dropping hundreds Of tons of bombs oh the city area, over Which fietee aih fights arb occurring. The Russian Air Force is dohcentriiting figainpt German troop concentrations and communications and tbe Luftwaffe against the Russian aerodromes, hoping to ground the Red Air Force. . . Supplies arid reinforcements are still being brought.regularly across, the Volga to Stalingrad. Some idea of the scale of the German attempt to stop this vital crOSS;fiv?r'tfafiic Can be gained from the fact that 18,000 shells have fallen on the landing points on the west- bank, and enemy platies have dropped over 500 bombs Ih the same area.

Luftwaffe Bombs Beads. The Lliftwaifie luthe Caucasus is hear* lly bdriiblpjt the roads in the Russians rear;, Hoping to delay . reinforcements, which Hen tec’s Moscow correspondent states ate being rushed.up from,the southern Caucasus. The mobile battle' is contliniing in the. Aliiglr retripti’ south-east of Nalchik, With the ItuSsiuus still on the

defensive. Reports from Berlin claim advances, but are making more frequent mention of increasing resistance by the Bed Army dnd also of more difficult terrain. , ~ , The battles in the mountain valleys and on the edges of the plains are long and hard-fought, says the Moscow correspond-, ent of “The Times.” Moscow radio reported the failure of repeated German attempts south-east of Nalchik to break through to the east, but the view in Moscow is that the general position in the central Caucasus is very serious. Successes for the Russians in the western Caucasus are continuing; and the Russians there are increasing their pressure. Moscow radio says that an Axis garrison of 2000 Axis troops is encircled on due of the mountain heights and is putting up a desperate fight to avoid being wiped out.- , BREAKING NAZIS ON ' VOLGA Russian Declaration WASHINGTON, November 4. The Soviet Embassy, in one of its rare official comments on the war situation, declared that the German army, at Stalingrad has definitely lost its Offensive power after the loss of hundreds of thousands of men. It added that rapid annihilation of the Nazis and their armament is in progress. The German forces are being undermined by daily losses Of between 4000 and 5000 soldiers, which have thwarted all operations and plans by the German Com- * mand. The Russians today are considerably stronger fhali last year, while the Germans .are inuch weaker. Discussing the effects of the Nazi reverses; the Embassy Shid that Moscow had been authoritatively informed that the'failure to take Stalingrad had gravely affected t Germany’s iiiterhal political situation. .