MARSHAL SNOW'S ADVANCE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 242, 14 October 1942, Page 5

MARSHAL SNOW'S ADVANCE.

GERMAN HOPES FADE. The three -day lull at Stalingrad was broken last night when German infantry and tank divisions returned to the attack. The Russians were not surprised, but were forced to give a little ground in one city area where they knocked out 20 tanks. The Germans have only ten days or a fcrtnight in which to take Stalingrad before the weather makes full-scale operations impossible, says Reuter's correspondent in Stockholm. Snow has failen already on the ncrthem and central fronts and in the Mosdok area, where the snowline is creeping quickly from the peaks to the valleys, and there is a grcwing feeling, says the correspondent, that the chances of saving Stalingrad were never better. A large number of infantry attacked Stalingrad this morning, says Reuter's Moscow correspondent. These attacks weredirected against factory forces in the north-western suburbs, where the Russians are holding on with characteristic determination. Marshai Timoshenko's relief army is battling north-west of Stalingrad. It has advanced further southwards. It is now fighting, not only in the stepipes between the Volga and the Don, but also in the hills farther south where it has captured useful positions. It is attempting to drive the Germans from the hills dominating roads and other lines of communication. — London p.a. Cable.