Evening star., 1942-09-28
1000 of Invaders
Killed in z Days,
Reds Declare
BY EDDY GILMORE.

Associated Press war Correspondent.
MOSCOW, Sept. 28.-Fresl
German shock troops rushed II
the front by transport plan,
poured into the debris -choket
streets of Stalingrad in an eff.
fort to clinch victory, dispatche.
said today, but the Red Army
fighting from window and roof
top and in the streets, held the
city in the 35th day of bloody
assault.
Northwest OF the city the Russian
were bunting the German drive ane
unloosing an offensive Of their owr
In an effort to slow the more direct
Nazi attack on the city, 1t was re.
ported. In one sector, large Sovie,
unit killed 1000 Germans in two
Gays, the midday-communique said
Dispatches from the frcnt esti.
mated that $4,000 Germans wert
battling from positions inside the
city and said they were being rein.
forced steadily in an attempt te
overwhelm the defenders. who were
relying on bomb -hsrassed commune
cations of the Volga,
The fighting for the city is grow
ing ever fiercer and bloodier.' a
correspondent for Pravda reported.
THE whole city is in convulsions
from the incessant explosions of
bombs and Shells" he said.
Zigzag Front.
The fierce fighting of the past "a
hours, with the Germans lunging
into the city from several different
points, has resulted in a zigzag
front with the Germans slightly ad-
vanced in some sectors and the Rus
slams established in new positions
to the west in others one dispatch
said.
The Russians were reported to
have taken two more streets from
the Germans at one point. The
midday communiQue said two en-
emy companies had been wiped out
In one smoking and she'll marked
neighborhood.
Writing from the agony filled
city, the Pravda reporter said the
bursting of shells and bombs was
so constant that the dust of the
city never had chance to settle.
Gone from the Volga, he wrote.
are the former pleasure boats and
steamers. In their places are ar
mored ships and fast cutters, dart
ing from bank to bank, taking in
supplies, ammunition and fresh
troops and carrying out the
wounded.
City Shakes With Blasts.
The dispatch mentioned the whine
of Soviet fighter planes over the
city, indicating that air support
was at hand for the besieged city.
But still the German bombers came
and the Pravda writer said the city
shook with the explosions of their
bombs.
Despite their great losses, the
dispatch said, the German effort
to take Stalingrad Is not weaken
ing. The Germans were reported
throwing great numbers of tanks
into the battle and one guard de-
tschment was credited with de-
stroying "a of them in one assault.
The fighting in the city was a
house-to-house scramble for advan-
taeeous positions, with liberal and
deadly use of hand grenades, fire
bombs and machine guns.
At one place in the city. a Russian
communique said, 600 Germans were
killed as Red Army troops drove the
invaders out of buildings they had
captured. 1t was a constant see
saw, with the Germans moving into
one section only to be engaged by
battle-grimed Russian troops fight
ing for the main bastion of the
lower Volga.
1000 Tommy Gunners Slain.
The Russians told of another
stalingrad district where their
forces killed 1000 German tommy
Eunners and captured a number of
prisoners.
For many days the Germans have
been standing still in the Stalingrad
district" said dispatch to Izvestia
Our defense lines in the city re-
main impregnable."
Northwest of the city the Rus
slams were reported lunging at the
German flank in desperate and at
least partly successful effort to slow
the assault on the city. The Ger
mans, recognizing this threat, were
throwing attack after attack at the
Russian lines there.
In one sector. German infantry
supported by 40 tanks. attacked
eight times during one day. a COM
munlque said. In another sector
one Red Army unit was credited
with killing $500 Germans and de-
stroying Is tanks. 80 guns, 4 bat
teries Of siX-barrel mortars, 9 other
mortafs, l9 machine guns and
planes.
The army newspaper Red Star
said the battle for Stalingrad. in
the number of German casualties
and The stubborn resistance of the
Russians greatly exceeds the COM
bats Mt Verdun.' the historic stand
of the French in the First World
War.
Mani Pressure Grows.
In the Mozdok area of the eau
casus TO the south. where the Ger
mans have been stalled for several
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