The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-31
Winter Forces Hitler's s Army Into Frenzied Ef- forts to Break Russians OBJECTIVE NOW
 IS ORDZHONIKIDZE
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 Positions
BY HENRY SHAPIRO Jnited Press Staff COrresp0ndcnt)

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Moscow, October Sl.
 (UP) - Russian lines held everywhere today, although the size and ferocity of Ger man attacks in the vital Nalchik area of the Caucasus rivaled those in Stalingrad. The Germans threw 1000 men and eight tanks against a factory area in northern Stalingrad in another of innumer. able efforts to break through to the Volga River. Three tanks were dis- abled and 200 Germans killed.
 In the Nalchik area, 1y000 Tommy Gunners, 65 tanks and armored cars and swarms of planes necessarily assailed a locality (perhaps Nalchik itselO the Soviet high command announced. The Germans did not advance, and four armed cars, IS tanks, 20 loaded trucks and 240 Germans were destroyed.
 The noon communique summar- ized fighting on these major fronts: Tn the Stalingrad area there was stubborn defensive fighting. Ger man battalion (1,000 men) sup ported by eight tanks attacked . factory area, but were broken up and three tanks disabled. Another attack was repulsed after eight hours and company t2O0 mem Of HitleriteS alnihilateds
 Tn the Nalchik area, there &aa fierce fighting. A battalion 5E enemy tommy gunners and 65 tanks and arm0red cars supported bM 1 planes necessarily attacked loA cality, but all were repulsed and fouT larraored cars and 18 tanks destroyed On another sector, two enemy alz tacks were repulsed, 240 dead lefA on the battlefield and 20 1oadeG trucks blown up"
 At both Stalingrad and Na1chik the Germans fren1er attacks Wena dictated by winter. It has snoweTz in both areas; at any time the Ger@ mans can expect blizzards that maN mean their disaster.
 The Germans presumably expects ed to set up a winter line if an& when they take Stalingrad. RuhI they have been at the job 69 days. From Nalchik (which they claim f0 have taken)s they hoped to drive to Ordzhonikidze, terminus of the GeOE@ gian military highway, 50 miles to the southeast.
 The Georgian highway lead 0Eex the already freezing Caucasus nOlin~ tains to Tiflis and the conpara~s lively balmy temperatures Of trans~ Caucasia, where the Germans mizIas fight all winter. There is man. ganese, strategic war material, around Ordzhoniktdze.
 Adolf Hitler first had tried to drive to Ordzhonikidze and the Grozny oil fields from the AGozdl0k area, 50 miles to the north. The. Russians held his powerful forces in the Terek valley for ten weeks. and wiped out 50 to 70 per cent a1l their strength. Now he evidently had brought up reinforcement and shifted from the Mozdok to the Na1= chik area. There has been no fighting around Mozcok for more than week.
 Last midnight, the Soviet hiala command reported another GernlanI advance in the Nalchik area. The Germans had been advancing steada ily almost since they opened faa drive three or four days ago.
 On their other CaucaSion battle front. around the Black Sea base of Tuapse. the noon communiqua reported only a raid by Soviet reconnaissance unit of an enemy headquarters. Sixty Germans vera killed, the headquartexs was wrecked and the Russians took documents and prisoners back with them.
 A few days ago, the situaEinn northeast of Tuapse was as serious as 1t is now in the Nalehik arza. Then winter blizzards swept the high mountains and the Russia ie took the initiative. clearing the enc
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