The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-26
Inside City Russians Art Wrestling Whole Blocks
 From Their Enemies TIMONSEHENSKO POUNDS
 AT NAZI LEFT FLANK Battle for Range of Hills Is Fierce; Nazis Slowly GO
 ing Backward
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

United Press Staff COrreSpOMdent1
 Moscow, September 26. (UPl Powerful Soviet tank and infantry forces northwest of Stalingrad crushed deeper through re- inforced German positions into a vital range of Hills to- day, and inside Stalingrad the Russians were reported counter-attacking and wrest- ing whole blocks from the enemy.
 Front-line dispatches now made iA clear that Marshal Semyon Tino- shenko aimed to drive back the Ger man left flank, and to this end was throwing larger and larger forces of tanks into a counter-cffensiv9 that steadily gained ground.
 The counter offensive wss ui- rected against a range of hills, seY- eral of which already had been 1 taken. If the Germans lose tha range, dispatches said, they will bs forced to withdraw part of taelr forces from the northern and nortE- western outskirts of Stalingrad. The Germans, squeezed between Timoshenko's growing counter- offensive and the stiffening resist~ ance inside Stalingrad, were with drawing men and tanks from their futile attempts to take the city and trying to stop the counter offensive.l The only results so far have been tae loss of scores of tanks and thoiz- sands of men.
 IF Nazi Tanks Wrecked
 After a bitter battle over enc hill. the Germans retreated and left the wrecks of 1T tanks. The Russians remained in possession of the hill.
 Three thousand Germans were killed in attacks on another hill the Russians rewon and A more of their tanks were knocked out.
 It was the 33rd day of the battle of Stalingrad, and front-line dis patches said the Russians, in bitter hand to hand battle, had driven the Germans from number of blocks inside the city.
 Moreover, the Germans failed to advance in frenzied efforts to take vital intersections. Soviet anti- tank weapons, firing from behind barricades, were proving superior to German arrnor, knocking out every tank directly hit.
 
 fire of their anti tank guns and ar l tillery with hand grenade and ben- zine bottle thrcwers, and many Ger ? mans were roasted inside their tanks.
 German planes pounded Volga river crossings, in an effort to pre- D vent achievements from reaching the counter offensive, and to keep supplies out of Stalingrad. , Soviet soldiers marines and saAz~ , ors, 1t was said, have been showing increasingly greater strength inside Stalingrad for the last 48 hours. Great German Strength There was no minimizing German 2 strength northwest of Stalingrad Their positions were studded wit1 large numbers of anti-tank guni y and big artillery, and they were do. 7 ing their utmost to stop the colIn' ter offensive.
 The Soviet army organ Red Sta' ' reported checker board'' de9ensi 2 2 system was proving unusually sue. cessful inside Stalingrad. Canncl : are set up to cover every approach 7 7 and when tanks try to advance oa Red Star said. they are met by . concentrated stream of fire iron
 every angle that brings them to
 standstill.
 i. one German tank unit lost q tanks in a two-hour test of thI
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