The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-26

NA4OSAC4 0VeSAA 0J0VCAAAs 4p 4CVuA 44- ed for a second attempt, lost five more tanks and retired.
 New armored naval units, princi- pa1ly high speed motor boats, join ed the battle of Stalingrad. Cours- ing up and down the Volga, they at- tackled German artillery and tanks at short range and helped monitors to protect crossings against dive bombers.
 Dispatches reported Soviet suc- cesses at other points along the battlefront. Russian forces advanced on a sector near Voronezh, $50 miles northwest of Stalingrad, and killed 800 of the enemy. South of Voronezh the Germans attacked several times, but were beaten of with heavy losses.
 On the western front, presumably In the Rzhev area northwest of Moscow, Soviet troops supported by heavy KIM tanks and artillery drove the Germans from an inhabited lo- cality and broke their second line of defense.
 Stahngrad Fierce Fighting
 Tn the Stalingrad area, there are fierce battleS," the noon communi- que said. "A guards unit in street battles destroyed 10 German tanks and killed 285 Germans. On another sector, Soviet troops repulsed an attack, killed up to a company of infantry and captured six machine guns and six mortarS.
 Northwest of Stalingrad, the enemy undertook several counter attacks which were repulsed with heavy losses. One of cur units wiped out 300 Hitlerlites and captured 100000 rounds of, ammunition. On another sector, one of our units beat off enemy counter-attacks, ad- vanced and took up more favorable positions. Six hundred of the enemy, 10 tanks and 12 guns were wiped out"
 The capture of 100000 rounds of ammunition suggested that the unit had driven into enemy positions and taken a munition dump.
 The noon communique said the Russians were beating off enemy attacks in the Mozdok area, where the Germans had tried with little success to drive to the nearby Gromy oil fields.
 [" our units repeled attacks from enemy tanks and infantry and compelled them to retreat to initial positions. The enemy left on the battlefield six damaged tanks, 10 trucks, seven guns and up to 200 killed and wounded" the noon communique said.
 Southeast of NovorosSiSk, the Black Sea Naval base the Russians relinquished two weeks ago, Soviet marines wiped out battalion of Rumanian infantry (500 mem and shot up and burned two tanks and three armored cars, the noon com munique said.
 Front-line dispatches said they had diverted still greater forces of tanks and infantry rom the main assault on Stalingrad which still was a costly failure in it's 33rd day.
 Nazis Counter Attacking
 These forces were counter attack ing Timoshenko's men to the north west with frenzied fury, So far, their counter attacks had been fruitless and the Russians drove through the German endorsements to capture two important hills.
 Either way, the Germans were embarrassed. If they withdrew forces from the main assault, the heroic Russian soldiers, marines and civ- ilians inside Stalingrad were cor- respondingly relieved. If they dis Timoshenko's counter -of- rensive, 1t had that much better chance of sweeping the German left flank back and breaking the siege.
 The defenders of Stalingrad not only were holding the Germans and killing thousands: They were Strik- ing back. Last midnight's communi- que reported they had wrested in position from the enemy inside the city. It said of the situation inside Stalingrad and northwest of 1t:
 'In the Salingrad area, the enemy was ceaselessly shelled by guns and trench motarS. We overcame Stub- | born German resistance, captured 8 German position, wiped out 200 1 officers and men, 10 motor vehicles, "A wagons and a munition dump, and captured three machine guns. a trench motar, many rifles and am- ADDD0DDIATTnNC |