POUNDED BY BOMBS

Evening Star, Issue 24294, 8 September 1942, Page 3

POUNDED BY BOMBS

STALINGRAD’S TERRIFIC ORDEAL AfPEALTO RED ARMY TO HOLD OUT (Rec. 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, September 7. ■ Stalingrad's terrific ordeal by bomb increases. Russian, reports say that now, 1,500 dive-bombers and other planes are concentrated against the city, exceeding the concentration against Moscow, or any previous comparable target. The Russian positions have been under intensive bombing for 72 boon. The Germans say the non-stop attack continues. The Berlin radio declared that strong formations of fighters, interceptors,: and bombers are pouuding the defences, also the city and aerodromes aowta the Volga. The Romo radio stated that several million tons of bombs were dropped in the paet few days ou military and industrial targets in Stalingrad. The damage is enormous. M. Manuilskiy, close collaborator of M. Stalin, broadcasting to the Red Army, appealed to the defenders of Stalingrad and the Caucasus to hold out, also to increase the pressure against the Germans. “ The Hitlerite army is much weaker than last year,” he said. “ The anti-Hitlerite countries are much more powerful. Hitler has concentrated the greater part of his man power and materials on the southern front in an attempt to achieve a decisive success before winter. A crack in the Axis army will soon come. The initiative on all other, sectors is in our hands. The invaders’ flank is unprotected. His communications are too long. The German claim that there will not he a second front is a lie.”