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SNOW FALLING

DANGER TO THE CITY MAY PASS VALIANT FACTORY WORKERS. MANNING THE WEAPONS THEY REPAIR. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, October 25. With snow falling north-west of Stalingrad, observers are predicting that the danger to the city will pass. Today is the 64th of the direct assault on Stalingrad. The Germans themselves are now admitting that they have been surprised by the tenacity of the Russian defence. The Germans admit that the Russians defending parts of Stalingrad have achieevd some successes in the last two days, but claim that these were merely locally important and incapable of influencing the fate of the city. The Russians are clearly fighting on with undiminished courage, and the Germans are maintaining the intensity of their attack against the city. Fires in Stalingrad are visible for 40 miles. Reuter’s Moscow correspondent reports that though the Russians have thrown the Germans out of the wedge pushed into the factory district the Russian position in this vicinity is still very difficult. The factory area borders on the Volga, and the Russian! defence line in some places is not more than 600 or 800 yards from the river. The Russians have no concrete defences on which they are able to fall back, so they are using the ruins of the great factory buildings as forts. A gap in the defence line was held for three days by 900 Home Guardsmen.

Russian factories which are working underground inside the besieged sections of the city are still repairing tanks, guns and lorries. They are also using them against the Germans when they are called on.

The Moscow correspondent of the British United Press says that one factory repaired 200 guns in a single 24hour shift. The workers delivered the guns to the front and found that there was a temporary shortage of artillerymen, so they stayed and manned the guns themselves. Though heavy fighting is continuing north and south of Stalingrad, the Russians are silent about these operations. Marshal Timoshenko's relief army continues slowly to push its way from the north-west.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 3

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341

SNOW FALLING Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 3

SNOW FALLING Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 3

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