GALLANT STAND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1942, Page 4

GALLANT STAND

MADE BY THE RUSSIANS AT STALINGRAD POWERFUL ENEMY EFFORTS FAIL FLARE-UP IN CAUCASUS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, October 29. The Germans, after concentrating ■ huge infantry and tank forces, renewed their offensive against the Stalingrad factory area. They flung two panzer and four infantry divisions, totalling 50,000 meh, into the new assault on this district. The sky over Stalingrad is black with German planes showering bombs on the nar- ' row Russian-held northern area. The Moscow radio says there were always 50 to 60 enemy planes overhead, dropping hundreds of bombs in an effort to demoralise the defenders, . but the Russians, standing up to the Germans’ fierce onslaught, repelled all attacks. C company of enemy motorised infantry which broke through to the south-western outskirts of the factory area was wiped out. Red Army units are launching counter-attacks which frequently develop into hand-to-hand fighting. The Columbia Radio’s Moscow correspondent stated that the Germans yesterday made ten separate assaults against the factory area of Stalingrad, but by evening had advanced only 150 yards. The 'German News Agency reports that the Russians, counter-attacking south of Stalingrad, reached the outskirts of Kuporossnoye, which is a village near the Volga on the southern outskirts of Stalingrad. Despite blizzards and heavy snowfalls, causing deep drifts and avalanches, front line dispatches to Moscow- report a new flare-up along the whole Caucasus front. The Germans are; employing large contingents of Alpine troops in a vigorous' effort to smash the Russian defences before the Winter deadlock sets in. The Germans at Nalchik are pressing a large-scale offensive, attacking heavily with -treeps, artillery and planes in an effort to penetrate the deep Russian defences. • The Germans are using ski and sleigh detachments in fighting for the snowbound mountain slopes and passes. ..-Red Army men north-east of Tuapse .also equipped with skis and repelled fierce attacks and captured a height. A vast battle continues east of Novorossisk, where the Russians, after routing the third Rumanian Alpine Division, are fighting a fresh Rumanian division and also Austrian i and Hungarian troops. A German communique claims the capture of Nalchik and the wiping out of. a Russian force in this area. An official Helsinki report says Russian bombers raided Helsinki last evening and dropped land mines. Three persons were killed and nine injured.