FURIOUS AIR ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1942, Page 3

FURIOUS AIR ATTACKS

LUFTWAFFE PAYING PRICE AT STALINGRAD NINETY GERMAN PLANES LOST IN TWO DAYS. FAILURE TO REACH MILITARY OBJECTIVES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, August 28. As part of their offensive against Stalingrad, the Germans are launching numerous heavy air attacks against the city. A Moscow message says ninety German aircraft have been shot down in two days, but the Luftwaffe has succeeded in dropping hundreds of bombs in the centres of the city. The message adds, however, that the aircraft were unable to break through the Russian anti-aircraft defences guarding vital military objectives. The latest reports of ground operations in the Stalingrad area speak of very bitter fighting in the vicinity of an important military objective. A huge group of enemy tanks and infantry broke through, but a Soviet unit counter-attacked, permitting Soviet tanks and artillery to arrive on the scene and to destroy sixty enemy tanks in the first engagement. A second engagement started with the Russians cutting off an enemy wedge from the south and the Germans, deprived of reinforcements and supply lines, hastily turned to the defensive. The Red Army has increased its pressure and is seeking to wipe out the entire group. The battle continues.