IN ACTION AGAINST STALINGRAD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1942, Page 3

IN ACTION AGAINST STALINGRAD

But City Still Being Defended Street By Street GERMANS STILL POURING IN REINFORCEMENTS NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN LENINGRAD AND CAUCASUS SECTORS LONDON, September 21. The Russians are still battling street by street to hold Stalingrad. The fighting is growing tenser every hour. German long-range guns are now trained on the centre of the city, but under incessant shelling and bombing Stalingrad’s defenders still refuse to give way and no new German breakthrough is reported. Correspondents state that the Russians have been forced to yield a few rubble-filled streets in the northern and northwestern suburbs of the city, though several streets have been won back. The fighting is becoming more intense every hour, as the Germans are throwing in new columns of tanks and trucks and swarms of planes. The defenders now have the help of a number of shallow ditches zig-zagging’ across the battle area. Significant operations are going on at the northern and southern ends of the Eastern front. South-east of Leningrad, the Germans are hurriedly strengthening their defences against the threat of more Russian attacks. . Fifty miles from the Grozny oilfields the German reinforcements which recently arrived are now in action.