EXHAUSTED ENEMY

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 250, 23 October 1942, Page 5

EXHAUSTED ENEMY

FORCES AT STALINGRAD RELIEF ARMY'S STEADY GAINS.

PA. Cabli

9. LONDON, Oct. 22.

The first snow has fallen over the Stalingrad battle zone northwest of the city, according to the latest messages from Moscow, turning the steppes into great fields of mud. Cold winds are sweeping across the battle -fields from the heights of the Urals, The British United Fress correspondent at Moscow says that the weather has helped to siow down the Germans, who are showing exhaustion and attaeking only in narrow sectors. The tempo ot the German assault in north Stalingrad has slowed down, reports Reuter's Moscow repiresentative. All attacks against factories in the three sectors in the last 24 hours hiave been repelled. A cold wind with steady. driving rain is sweeping through the city, and the roads are coated with mud. The Russians, after two days' fierce fighting, have taken a height on slopes near Stalingrad. All German counter-attacks have been repulsed. The height is one from which. Stalingrad is clearly visible. The Red Star says that last week's fighting clearly shows that the enemy's strength is petering out. The mr «»«- MT V ar jumr AXHSr 4T MS&ST JT ABPUT AT Aear Jp

mrjrjBa^jrABBor^jsar^jswrjrj^jr^Br jrjmrj^jss Germans have force enough only to concentrate on a narrow sector, thereby weakening the power of the offensive as a whole. Moscow radio reports that the Russians south-east of Novorossisk have cleared the enemy from two heights and captured a populated place and a neighbouring height in the Mosdok region. A strange, murderous war is being ing fought out in the Caucasus mountain passes. The Russians fire at rocks over enemy positions to bring down an avalanche, or send blazing logs hurtling down on groups of German and Rumanian alpine troops painfully climbing the slopes.