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SLIGHT GERMAN ADVANCE IN STALINGRAD BATTLE. ATTACKS ELSEWHERE REPELLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, September 27. In Stalingrad the Germans have made a slight advance inside the city at one point. Elsewhere their attacks have been held. The Russians retook a number of buildings. Fierce fighting is going on for every house. North-west of the city Marshal Timoshenko's forces are beating back fierce German attempts to halt the advance of the Soviet troops. One Soviet unit alone wiped out 2,500 Germans and destroyed a large quantity of enemy equipment. On the Mozdok front bitter fighting is taking place for a railway station. At one point on this front the Russian troops withdrew in the face of superior enemy forces. The Soviet forces have occupied several heights and villages south-east of Novorossisk, where die enemy has suffered serious losses. More Russian successes are reported on the Leningrad front, where the Russians are mopping up enemy groups which attempted to drive a wedge into the Russian lines. On the Upper Voronezh a forest has been cleared of Germans.
FURIOUS AS EVER BATTLE FOR THE CITY. ASSERTIONS BY ENEMY SPOKESMAN. (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, September 27. A Moscow claim that 5,000 Germans were killed in various Stalingrad sectors during the weekend indicates that the battle for the city is raging with undiminished intensity. The Russians have made slight further progress in a drive from the north and have also recaptured several strongly-garrisoned houses in the north-western suburbs, but the Germans have strengthened their grip on the southern part of the city. A German military spokesman said: “The greatest part of southern Stalingrad is in our hands, although every ruin still offers deliberate local resistance. The hardest fighting is going on in central Stalingrad, where we have captured six big buildings on the Volga bank, thus breaking the backbone of Russian resistance in this area. The toughest Russian resistance is centred on three enormous groups of factories in northern Stalingrad, which the Russians transformed into incredibly strong fortresses. Factories on a height dominating the city were defended with the heaviest gunfire.” The spokesman admitted that the Russians had penetrated the main German defence line north of the city, but claimed that they were cut off and annihilated.
“The Times” correspondent at Stockholm reports that the Germans launched five more counter-attacks in an attempt to dislodge the Russians from ground gained in a drive towards Stalingrad from the north. The counterstrokes have not achieved positive success and a virtual deadlock has thus been reached in which both sides are pounding each other with guns of all calibres.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1942, Page 4
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