Evening star., 1942-10-06
Foe Hurting $4,000
Into Bottle for
StoIingrod Sector
BY EDDY GILMORE.
Press War Cnrresnnnden

MOSCOW, Oct. 6.-Defenders
of Stalingrad were reported
holding firm today against three
Nazi divisions in a flame Laced
battle for a workers settlement
and Red Army troops fighting
for relief of the garrison stabbed
anew into the German left flank.
German artillery and mortar bar
RACES heralded the opening of a
series of attacks by the three divi-
sions-totaling from 10000 to As 900
men. Swarms of dive bombers and
100 tanks roared into the fight for
the salient. A Pravda dispatch said
the flames were visible to Russian
fighters in sectors many miles away.
Prisoners told Red Army COM
manders that their officers feared
to delay any further in their over
due plans to take the city. Colder
nights have arrived on the Stalin-
grad front.
Nazis HurI % Attacks.
At one place the Germans hurled
% attacks, but all were repulsed, the
Communist party newspaper said.
German losses in the last "a hours
have been huge and the enemy
failed to advance ON any front, it
was declared.
The army newspaper Red Star
said:
Neither tanks, aviation nor TOM
my gunners can shake the decision
of our fighters and commanders to
protect the Volga River stronghold
and repulse the German robbers
from the walls of the glorious CITY,"
Fierce street fighting persisted.
German captives were quoted as
saying that as troops begin to shiv-
er in the cooler temperatures they
become less satisfied with their
progress.
The Germans hurry" declared
the government newspaper Izvestia.
They see time passing They fear
delay They are fiercely rushing for
ward"
Stain Stiffens Defense.
Premier Stains warning that the
city's defenders were not to take
one step backward was credited with
helping to stiffen their resistance
against siege now in it's 43d day.
Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's
shock troops were reported at mid
night to have improved their posi-
tions again northwest of Stalingrad,
and this was followed at noon by a
bulletin which said that in the
same region Unit N made a slight
advance"
Enemy counterattacks in some
sectors were repulsed by mortar,
rifle and machine-gun fire. the
communique said.
Volga River gunboats were cred
tied with silencing two enemy ar
tillery batteries and destroying three
mortar batteries in support of the
Stalingrad defense. A garrison de-
tachment was said to have repulsed
seven consecutive attacks by a Ger
man infantry regiment, wiping out
about company of troops and dis
abling 3 of is supporting tanks.
800 Nazis Slain Near Mozdok.
Defence and offensive operations
in the Mozdok area of the Central
Caucasus were said to have led to
the Staying of some 600 Germans and
destruction OF seven tanks.
Southeast of Novorossisk Gn the
Western Caucasus) Soviet troops
counterattacked,c capturing height,
routing Rumanian battalion and
destroying two tanks" the COM
munique said
Russian bombers stationed at
Baltic bases were declared to have
destroyed seven Junkers dive bomb
ers and damaged IL others in a raid
on German airdrome. The COM
muniQue said three other Nazi
planes were shot down in aerial
fights.
There was nothing in Soviet dis
patches from Stalingrad to indi-
cate that Russian forces there we're
not ready to meet any and all as
saults of the reinforced Axis divi-
sions, but one dispatch did say the
Germans were superior in number.
Russians indicated that about
1000 Germans had been slain in re-
newed fighting for the workers set
tlement, still in Soviet hands de-
spite a heavy pounding.
Nazis Use Indian Trick.
The NaZi army northwest of
Stalingrad resorted successfully to
an Indian fighting trick to block
one of series of sharp Soviet at
tacks. dispatches reported.
AS the Russian troops bore down
(See RUSSIA, Page A-14)