RAILWAY TO MOSCOW OUT OF USE
(United Press Association—Telegraph Copyright) (Rec. 1.20 a.m.) LONDON, August 25. Stalingrad, Russia’s great steel-making city, is in grave peril. The Germans are battering theii way towards the city from the south-west and the north-west, using tanks by the hundred, motorized infantry by the thousand and great numbers of guns in an effort to force a decision. The Stalingrad-Moscow railway is now within range of the German artillery and it is practically out of use. The Russians admit that the Germans have advanced from the bridgehead they threw across the Don a few days days ago. Advancing towards Stalingrad over the plain from Kotelnikovo, the Germans have driven a wedge into the Russian defences. Here there is no water-crossing to bar the German advance. In the Caucasus the position of the defenders has deteriorated. The Germans have made progress in their advance towards Grozny and they also threaten the great Georgian military road through the Caucasian Mountains to Tiflis.
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Southland Times, Issue 24832, 26 August 1942, Page 5
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164RAILWAY TO MOSCOW OUT OF USE Southland Times, Issue 24832, 26 August 1942, Page 5
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