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IN SITUATION SOUTH-WEST , OF STALINGRAD HEAVY GERMAN ATTACKS IN DON BEND. SOME RIVERBANK POSITIONS GAINED BY ENEMY (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, August 18. Moscow reports no change in the situation south-west of Stalingrad. Today’s Moscow communique says that fighting was mainly confined to the Grozny and Krasnodar areas. According to some reports, enemy tank units have reached within 100 miles of Grozny. The situation is tense for the Russians within the Don elbow north-west of Stalingrad ,a:nd it is daily growing more difficult. The Germans, who seem to have followed their usual policy of disregarding cost, yesterday established some positions on a short stretch of the west bank of the Don. The Russians are smashing back at the Germans' advanced posts, and are also reported to be strengthening their defensive positions between the Don and the Volga to meet any isolated orbak through across the Don by the Germans. Reports vary regarding the extent of the German occupation of the riverbank posts. It is clear that the intensity of the battle for these positions has not abated for a week, and also that the Germans’ drive for Stalingrad is at present the -focal point of the struggle on the Russian front.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1942, Page 3
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