RELIEF ARMIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1942, Page 3

RELIEF ARMIES

NOW WITHIN SIGHT OF STALINGRAD FIERCE HAND TO HAND FIGHTING. GERMANS USING MORE PLANES IN CAUCASUS. i LONDON, October 14. After a further advance northwest of Stalingrad, troops of Marshal Timoshenko's relief army are now within sight of the city. The Russians have also captured an im-

portant strongpoint south of Stalingrad, and within the city they have captured five large buildings

and a school. The Moscow correspondent of “The Times” says the Gemans are still exerting pressure against the northwestern outskirts, where short, sharp battles with thrust and counter-thrust are taking place along the battered streets.

Fierce hand-to-hand struggles are occurring in .factories and other buildings. The Germans launched tank attacks supported by planes in the open country fringing the city, but these attacks were repelled. The operations in the Caucasus have been characterised by a marked increase in the German air activity and the beating of their ground forces to a standstill. . . .. The Russians are maintaining silence regarding the Germans’claims of progress along the Tuapse Road, lhe Paris radio stated that the Germans have reached the Black Sea coast and are now only 12 miles from Tuapse.