HELL THAT IS STALINGRAD

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 249, 22 October 1942, Page 5

HELL THAT IS STALINGRAD

CITY A FURNACE AND GRAVEYARD.

P.A. Cable.

LONDON, Oct. 20.

Two pictures from different sources vividly describe the hell that Stalingrad has become. Moscow radio says that Stalingrad quakes under incessant bombing from the air, while Soviet fighter pilots continue to fight against numerically superior forces and with the utmost gallantry to prevent eneiny bombing of Soviet troops. Rome radio, quoting an Italian special correspondent, says that the road leading to Stalingrad can be ccmpared with a huge crater. The course of the battle is marked by an uninterrupted chain of cemeteries of machines and artillery. Flying over the area, one sees enormous masses of tanks destroyed in battle and by bombers, miles of columns of motorvehicles nailed down to the ground, and parts of light, mediurn and heavy artillery all converted to a shapeless mass of iron. Stalingrad has become a permanent furnace. The sky over the city is dark because of dark clouds of smoke, reaching to 6500

feet. The heat from the furnace is felt for several miles, and even the rains of the last few days have not lowered the temperature or decreased the extent of the fires, which the fighting continually sets alight anew.