FIGHT FOR FACTORIES
TIMOSHENKO DRIVING ON.
P.A. Gable.
LONDON, Oct. 15.
A German High Command cornmunique described fighting this morning around three big factories at Stalingrad. and Berlin radio- later claimed that the German troops had taken the Dwerzhinsky tractor factory by storm and reached the Volga on a two-mile front-. (Vichy radio a week ago claimed that this factory ha-cl been completely razed) . Moscow despatches repeat that Marshal Timoshenko's relief troops difying from the north can already see Stalingrad, "and not with strong field-classes, either.'' The Russians' drive fro-m Kachalinskaya is heaviest on the right wing near the Don. The Germans claim furthcr advances in the western Caucasus. but Berlin adm.it * that the daily gains of the Axis can be seen only on special large-scale maps. A more serious situation has developed in the Mosdok area, where the Germans are increasing pressure. Several divisions simultaneously managed to penetrate Russian positions with tommv-gunners in addition to tanks. A series of big battles is raging. The Russians: on the southern fringe of this area are
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 244, 16 October 1942, Page 2
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