The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07

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 The German armored forces buckling the Red Army lines, struck deeper into the western Caucasus along a 70-mile front south of Bel ava Glina and westward to a point below Kushchevka.
 Waves of NaZi dive -bombers paced German columns attempting, with some new success, to close the south ern claw of pincers upon Stalin- grad in the Kotelnikov sector about J5 miles southwest of the industrial city on the Volga.
 (The Germans reported new strong Russian drives on the Rzhey front about 150 miles northwest o1 Moscow and on the Volkhov front further north between Lake Inner and Leningrad, undoubtedly de- signed to force 8 diversion of Ger. many's great strength from tht Caucasus.
 (Miltary observers in London said that the new Russian attack: in the north led by Gen. Gregor zhukov appeared to be aimed al sectors stripped of a large part o1 their men, tanks and planes and that the Germans had the cream of their forces on the Caucasus front).
 (The German high command re- ported the capture of three more key towns on the southern front Jeisk on the arm of the sea of Azay reaching up to RoStov; Timashev- skaya, 60 miles north of the rail- road junction of Krasnodar, and Amavir, railroad center and junc- tion of oil pipelines to the Maikor fields near ..le Black Sea and the Grozny and Baku fields to the east.)
 Strong Counter Attacks
 Official Soviet advices told of dozen or more points, but it was strong Russian counter-attacks at stressed that the situation remained as grave as ever with the enemy advancing in all but one key Sec- tor.
 Charging into massed German tanks and the pressing hordes of German and other Axis troops, sac- rifice units counter attacked again and again but the enemy, over whelmingly superior in tanks, planes and numbers of men, kept up a drive which put the key towns of Kropotkin and Krasnodar, the Mai kop aviation gasoline fields and the NovorossiSk naval base in imminent peril.
 The counter-attacks were care fully timed and planned to disor- ganize the German tank thrusts. They succeeded in slowing the ad- vance but did not stop 1t.
 Three times, Russian troops counter-attacked south of Belaya Gina, at the eastern end of TO- mile North Caucasus battle fropt. The first and second attacks held the Germans temporarily. But the enemy broke through the Russian lines in another sector. A third counter-attack failed to dislodge the enemy, and the Russian com mand was compelled to order dog ged, orderly retreat to keep its line intact.
 At the west end of the North Caucasus line, south of Kushchevka Don and Kuoan coSsacks cut into the Hanks of the Germans in counter attacks similar to those be- low Belaya Glina, and for the mos ment, special dispatches to the army newspaper Red Star reported, they were holding fast against repeated enemy attacks.
 New Soviet Retreat
 There has been a new retreat in the Kotelnikovski sector where the southern claw of 8 Germans pincerl movement was thrusting toward the Volga and industrial Stalingrad. Here, special dispatch to the army newspaper Red Star said, thu Germans captured section of thu Stalingrad- Caucasus Railroad.
 The Germans drove through thu Russian line at key point, Red Stal said, and after repulsing ferocioul tank and infantry attacks in neigh. boring areas, the Russians vert forced to retreat as at Belaya Glins to keep their line straight.
 It was admitted that the threai to Stalingrad from the Kotelnikovsk ported today.
 There was activity on a reduced scale by planes in the battle ares west of Fl Alamein, tho communi.