100,000 MEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1942, Page 4

100,000 MEN

LOST BY THE GERMANS IN ASSAULT ON STALINGRAD. CITY BEING BOMBED SQUARE AFTER SQUARE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright; (.Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, Septemoer 15. The German assault on Stalinh grad is being pressed with very great fury and the latest Russian ' reports suggest that the battle is nearing its climax. The Germans, in the afternoon, claimed that they had captured the main Stalingrad Railway Station, but there is no confirmation of this claim. The “Red Star' 1 says the Germans are bombing Staiingrad, square after

square. According to the British United Press, the German air blows against the sionth-west sector of the city are described in Moscow as, the greatest air raids of the war. _ The Germans are plastering the Russians, section _after section, and nlso arc smashing against the Volga crossings and other communications to the rear. The correspondent says the battle is now most critical for the Russians south-west oi the city, and it is also developing dangerously in the north-west, where the Germans are sparing, neither men nor tanks The general impression in Moscow is that the Germans, regardless of cost, are slowly crawling forward. . , , ~ . A German communique states that the thrust against Stalingrad is gaming ground and that German troops have stormed against the city’s defences. Four thousand Germans were anmhilatecl when the Russians dislodged the enemy from fortified positions m one sector oh the Moscow front. The Berlin radio has reflected German uneasiness regarding this sector of the Russian front. In announcing new and strong Russian attacks in the Rzhev area, Berlin admitted that the Russians had broken through at one point, supported by large forma-ions of tanks. , , , It is reported from Ankara thm Marshal von Bock has lost 100,000 killed and wounded’ before Stalingrad Some famous German regiments were completely wiped out.

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GERMAN CLAIM & MOSCOW ADMISSION.

(Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, September 15. Berlin claims that the German attack in the Novorossisk area is steadilv gaining ground and Moscow admits continued German penetration in the Mosdok region.. ...