FRESH NAZI TROOPS
AND HUNDREDS OF TANKS SMASHED ON NARROW SECTOR. ATTACKS OF GREAT POWER BEATEN BACK. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) LONDON, September 16. The Germans flung in several fresh regiments of infantry and several hundred tanks against a narrow sector west of Stalingrad. The Russians met them and beat them back. Today the Russians are battered and bloodied, but are still hitting back with sacrificial determination. 1 This Germamattack, one of the largest so far launched, was intended to cut to the city’s heart with a frontal assault. The panzers bit into the Russian defences time and again, but the Russians counter-attacked and flung them back to their original positions. The Germans regrouped and tried again, but came up against guards and a trench-mortar unit which put over
a hail of concentrated fire. Forty German tanks were set ablaze and a thousand German troops were mown down. All Axis reports agree that this is “the final phase.” There is apparently no end to the men, tanks and planes which the Germans can and obviously will throw in.
The Russian resistance is epic. The skill of the planning of the defence and the courage and vigour of its execution are great, but they are surpassed by the unbelievable spirit of each Red Army man, who, defying the weariness of weeks of battling in the I war’s greatest blood bath, daily repeats la miracle of new effort when none | seems humanly to be expected.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1942, Page 3
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