LATEST FIGHTING
HEAVY ENEMY ATTACK REPELLED IN NORTH-WESTERN PART OF STALINGRAD. DEVELOPMENTS IN CAUCASUS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, October 15. Though a majority of the latest Russian reports indicate that fighting on the Russian front is on a reduced scale compared with recent weeks,_ a Moscow message reports that considerable enemy tank and infantry forces were hurled into a narrow sector in north-west Stalingrad yesterday. They were repelled after heavy fighting, The enemy in these’ unsuccessful attempts to capture factories—which are reported to be still functioning repairing tanks —lost 23 tanks and up to 2.000 men. Russian reinforcements reaching Stalingrad across the Volga include at least one Soviet Guards Division.
Fighting in the Mozdok area is concentrated in two localities. In one the Red Army yesterday improved its positions, forcing a second enemy retreat in two days. In,, the other locality the Germans are on the offensive. They threw sixty tanks into battle and succeeded in driving a wedge info the Soviet lines. The Russians south-east of Novorossick yesterday carried out offensive action, encountering fierce enemy resistance.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1942, Page 3
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