Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-25
Reds Cross Don
To Shut Pincers
On Axis Armies

FIOllG llllt us SlJdICIltS dlli Illt
noon communique indicated that
the total of German casualties since
last Thursday was now far higher
than 100000. Up to last Thursday,
Axis killed, wounded and captured
were reckoned at a total of 10000
The noon commEnique reported
2400 more killed, and dispatches
said 1000 to 3000-not 900-Were
killed yesterday inside Stalingrad.
The offensive advanced on all
fronts across the frozen, snow cov-
cred steppes. South of Stalingrad,
the Russians were officially report
villages and hamlets and to have
inflicted enormous losses.
STALINGRAD SAFE
The defenders of a northern in
dustrial section of Stalingrad, who
joined hands with a column that
drove down the west bank of the
Volga from the north yesterday, to
relieve the siege, were driving back
the Germans.
Front line dispatches said they
had captured 60 blockhouses in the
last "a hours.
Slashing into the Germans on
Stalingrad's southern outskirts, the
defenders captured several i'm
portant hills and killed more than
400 Germans.
The noon communique, in sum-
married. form:
Soviet troops last night contin-
nffonciun lNattlac in tlp
Stalingrad area.
They advanced in active opera
tions in factory area of Stain
grad. On the southern outskirts,
our troops occupied several domi-
mating heights and a number o'
Notifications, killing more than 400
Germans.
REGIMENT ROUTED
West of Stalingrad, olT troops.
overcoming the enemY's resistance.
continued to forge ahead. They
captured a strongly fortified stron@-
hold on one sector after rcutln"
an infantry regiment and TOOK
some prisoners.
South of Stalingrad, Sovirt
troops advanced and occupied
number of populated places. Enc
nv losses were enormous. IN "a
hours. unit x annihilated 2000 Of
ficers and men and destroyed 80
armored cars and 90 guns
The Germans fully realized their
desperate plight, steadily growing
worse.
Thousands of their corpses were
spraWled on the snow ncrthWeSt OF
Stalingrad. where the Russians had
captured 80 or 40 villages. includ-
ing some big regional centers.
MANY PRISONERS
The army organ Red Star, dc-
scribed lone columns OF ShabpV.
hungry half-frozen Germans ana
Rumanians plodding north to prison
camps. some without any KIND OF
escort.
German prisoners were particular
" depressed bv their sudden crush
ing defeat Three DIVISIONS which
surrendered in the Don bend yes
terdav were all Germans.
A German prisoner, Identified as
n Major Evart, told his captofS:
Your artillery completely demor-
allied and disorganiZed our de-
lenses. 1t was a nightmare.
never imagined artillery fire could
be so intense
The Germans tried to entrench
themselves at Surovikino, but the
Russians rooted them out and
drove on westward. Northwest or
Stalinerad. three infantrv-tanK
g., -
advance. The Germans lost three
tanks and retreated in haste, aban-
doning three important hills.
PLANES DESTROYED
South of Stalingrad, the Ger
mans threw manv planes and the
2oth motorized rifle division against
the Russians. The rifle division
was wiped out or taken prisoner
and most of the planes DESTROYED
(Radio Vichy broadcast Ger
man officials news agency dispatch
admitting that the Russians. with
large numerical superiority were
making progress across the Don
west of Stalingrad, but claimed that
German and Rumanian forces had
captured range of hills in the
! Kletskava area, IS miles northwest
of Stalingrad, cutting off the So
viets
Only local fighting was reporttl
in the Caucasus. On the Lenin-
grad front, the noon communique
said. snipers killed 1000 Germans
in two davs. Soviet planes and
anti-aircraft gunners have Destroy
ed eight German planes on Len
ingrad's approaches.