STALINGRAD ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1942, Page 4

STALINGRAD ATTACK

POWERFUL & PERSISTENT GERMAN EFFORTS

CONTINUED REGARDLESS

OF LOSSES.

ANTICIPATIONS OF RUSSIAN CO (INTER STROKES.

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 19. Reports from Moscow today suggest that the Germans have the upper hand in the Stalingrad area, at least temporarily, although there is costly fighting ahead before the German Army can make good Hitler’s boast that Stalingrad will be taken. The renewed German assault against north Stalingrad is now in its sixth day. In it the Russians have suffered what “The Times” Moscow correspondent describes as the most merciless and persistent air bombing the war has known. The Luftwaffe, without interruption, has been attacking a narrow sector, using 500 planes of all types, and making at ieast 1,000 sorties daily and sometimes 1,600. Reports from Berlin say the Russians are massing for a renewed drive between the Don and the Volga, northwest of Stalingrad, where Russian troops, tanks and artillery are continually moving up. Berlin also is continually emphasising the major dimensions of the Russian movements in the Toropets area. The Luftwaffe for a fortnight has maintained round the clock attacks against the Russian troops deployments in the whole region between Toropets and Kalinin, where a largescale Russian offensive can be expected.