Evening star., 1942-10-05
Nozis Make Little New Gains
At StoIingrod After Reservists
Swell Forces to Over 100000
Russians Improve
Lines Northwest
ofvoIgo City
BY EDDY GILMORE,


Associated Press War Correspondent.
MOSCOW, Oct. 5.-The Ger
mans poured a constant stream
Of reserves into Stalingrad along
"the road Of dead" today, swell
ing their forces in the area to
more than half a million. but
they still had not achieved a
break-through or material ad-
vance. Soviet dispatches re-
ported.
The midday Soviet communique
said the Red Army itself had i'm
proved its position northwest Of the
city, but that the Nazis In de-
termined drive on q Stalinsrad fac
tory settlement forced the defenders
to withdraw somewhat during the
night.
The government newspaper Pravda
said the German command loosed
the assault in this sector after
bringing up two more infantry di-
visions and one tank division, in
creasing its strength to IS divisions.
Locked With Nazis on Hill.
After bettering their position
northwest of the city Russian troops
were reported locked in battle with
Germans clinging to a strongly
fortified hill.
In other fighting In this area q
Red Army unit battling for pos
session of strategic height killed
$50 Germans and destroyed some
German equipment, it was reported.
The ferocity Of the fighting within
the city was indicated in the report
that artillery and mortar fire wiped
out q battalion Of enemy infantry
and destroyed "a machine gun posts
and six gun and mortar batteries.
"The enemy Is conducting fierce
attacks in the direction OF factory
settlement" the midday communiuue
said Of the fighting in Stalingrad.
"At the cost of heavy losses he
succeeded In somewhat pressing back
one Of our units. On all other
sectors the German attacks were
repulsed by our troops
Furious Attack by Nazis.
A furious German infantry at
tack was reported from the north
western front, but the communioue
said it had been repulsed with heavy
losses. -Four hundred more Germans
were killed in fighting for populat-
&c place north Of Voronezh, 1t added.
In the Caucasus, somewhere in the
Mozdok region, the Germans at
tempted to fight their way through
q mountain gorge, but retreated in
the face Of stubborn resistance, leav-
ing 30 dead, 1t was reported.
But the Germans obviously were
throwing their main strength into
the struggle for Stalingrad, where
the Russians were holding fast amid
the smoking ruins for the 42d day.
Through the din of battle Stalin-
grads factories continue to operate
until forced to cease by the shelling
or aerial bombardment, dispatches
from the city said. When they are
damaged so badly they can no longer
function normally, they are con-
verted into repair shops to handle
damaged tanks and guns, it was
stated.
"Stalingrad Must Hold"
Party leaders at the Stalingrad
front issued a proclamation declar-
Ing "the fatherland demands that
Stalingrad meet all tests, no matter
how difficult. Stalingrad must hold,
no matter what the cost"
While they fought on stubbornly
IN the streets of the Volga city, the
Russians kept up their pressure on
the German f1anks from the north
and south, desperately trying to
pinch the Nazi forces together and
ease the terrific strain on Stalin-
grads garrison, dispatches said.
Northwest of the city the Rus
slams apparently were maintaining
the initiative, the midnight commu-
nique reporting that the Red Army
was conducting active operations"
there.
Earlier dispatches from the front
had given an optimistic picture of
the Stalingrad fighting. reporting
that the German position there was
becoming precarious because of in
sufficient reserves within the city
and the increasing Soviet pressure
on the flanks outside.
Nazis Driven From Settlement.
The Red Army, these dispatches
said, drove the Germans out OF one
settlement on the northwest out
skirts of Stalingrad. The low hills
around the city were prizes for
which much blood and equipment
were sacrificed and Red Star re-
ported the Germans lost several
thousand men in an unsuccessful
attempt to take one of these nils.
Despite the chaos and destruc-
ton at Stalingrad, Izvestia report
ed, a political commissar made a
hurried trip from the city to an
other Volga city to buy phono-
graphs, guitars, books and writing
paper for besieged troops.
Three hundred miles northwest Of
stalingrad at .Voronezh. the COM
munique said Russian troops had
captured German positions and
killed 1900 men in one day.
The Moscow radio reported that
the Red Army had driven the Ger
mans from an important strategical
point west of Moscow and resisted