Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-26
Soviet
Scores
Victory
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, Oct. 26.-UP0-Pow
erful Soviet forces. striking from
newly captured village in the Don.
Volga corridor, blasted the German.
from more trenches and dugorts to.
day and pressed on toward the re-
life of Stalingrad'S embattled de-
tenders.
The Soviet high command did not
indicate how far the relief forces
commanded by Marshal Semyon
TimoShenko. were from Stalingrad
but it was believed they were now
/ approaching the main German de-
/ Tense Positions N the northwest
/ ern suburbs.
/ Soviet units were active on sew
/ eral sectors the noon communique
/ said of Timoshenko'S drive. They
/ captured dugouts and trenches. de-
! stroyed five tanks and wiped out
a company 900 mem. Soviet tanks
accounted fer Is anti-aircraft guns
and 200 Germans. On another sec
tor. our men wiped out 20 Italians. .
BATTLES IN CITY
Having killed at least 1000 Ger
mans in two days. TimoShenko's S
men captured a village, strongly
fortified, and another strong point
yesterday.
Bloody, hand-to-hand battles rag
ed in an industrial sections of
northwestern Stalingrad. and the
noon communique said the Ger
mans had penetrated the fringe of a
factory district, but the defenders
were wiping these units out.
Sun and a dry wind, following
DAYS of rain, mud and snow were
aiding the Germans, who threw
thousands of fresh reserves into a
desperate effort to drive to the
Volga river and split the defenders
before winter closes in for good
within the next few weeks.
LOSSES CONTINUE
The Germans had failed to &C
complish their objective in 63 days
| of siege and at the cost of hun
dreds of thousands CT their men.
Their desperate effort now was as
costly as their earlier assaults and
the results were meager. Two
streets that the Germans captured
Yesterday in the factory district
were their first gain in almost a
week.
In the Stalingrad area in fierce
battles the Soviet defenders are
courageously repelling enemy infan-
try and tanks which attacked fac
tory area after powerful artillery
preparation" the noon communique
said THE Germans suffered heavy
losses.
Soviet artillery dispersed and
partly wiped out regiment $1,000
m,anl of infantry, destroyed IA
tanks and silenced Is mortar bat
tries. After hand-to-hand fight
ing. the Germans penetrated the
fringe of one factory, but the So
viets are presently wiping them
out
QUIET ELSEWHERE
Cacsasian battlefrontS were cCm-
paratively quiet. The noon COM
muniuue reported only artillery,
trench mortar, rifle and machine
gun duels in the Modok area OF
the eastern Caucasus.
German forces in the Mozdok
area have been almost completely
inactive for the last few days, aft
er the failure of a 10-week cam
paign to drive few miles to the
Grozny oil fields. German ana
italian infantry and armored
forces have lost more than % per
cent of their effectives and are no
nearer their objective than they
were in August.
Southeast of Novorossisk, former
Soviet Black Sea naval base, the
German drive toward the port Oh
Tuapse has been stalled for 40
| hours.
BLACK SEA ACTION
The communist party organ Pra-
vada revealed that Black Sea ma
rines in the last II days have cap
tured four inhabited coastal points
and two strategic heights and kill
ed or wounded 1900 Axis soldiers.
The noon communique reported
that 400 Germans had been killed
on sectors of the northwestern
front, and dispatches from this area
said decisive battles around Len
inprad were expected socn.
The first snow of winter already
has fallen at Leningrad and there
is thin ice on Lake Ladoga. Autumn
operaticns have been difficult or
this front besause of swampy ter
rain. but as soon as the grouno
freezes, fighting will flare again.