STALIN’S ORDER
STALINGRAD TO BE HELD AT ALL COSTS ENEMY STILL MAKING HEADWAY. AGAINST VALIANT EFFORTS IN DEFENCE. LONDON. August 26. M. Stalin has ordered Marshal Timoshenko to hold Stalingrad at all costs, with the result that the full weight of the Russian armoured reserves was for the first time moved up to the front today. The Germans have replied with more dive-bombers and fighter-bombers, which are swooping in continuously against the strongly-fortified Russian positions. The carnage on both sides is appalling. The battle for Stalingrad is still moving in favour of the Germans in spite of the Russians’ valiant efforts. A German communique says that German alpine troops took several high mountain passes in the Caucasus. A Moscow correspondent (says that south of Krasnodar the Russians have occupied a natural defence line in the hills covering Novorossisk and Tuapse and have thrown back a succession of German attacks with exceptionally heavy German losses.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1942, Page 3
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154STALIN’S ORDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1942, Page 3
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