Evening star., 1942-09-30
StoIingrod Defenders Re pulse
Ponzers While Flank Attacks
Put Two Nozi Divisions to Rout
Axis Forces Beaten
Back in Z Sectors
Of Caucasus Front
BY EDDY GILMORE.
Associated Press War Correspond snt.

MOSCOW. Sept, 30.-Stalin-
grads weary garrison battled off
German tanks and motorized in
fantry in their 37th day of siege
today and, while fresh hundreds
fell within the ruined city, it was
announced that two Nazi divi-
sions had peen routed by relief
attacks against the invasion
flank.
A hardened defense and counter
attacks took their toll of Adolf
Hitlers forces from Leningrad to
MoZdok
The newspaper Comsomol Pravda
CYoung Pravda) declared that the
initiative remains in our hands" in
the battle of the steppes northwest
of Stalingrad, although the Germans
were concentrating tremendous
forces to replace defeated divisions.
Some Germans moved up on bicycles
Field reports declared the Red
Army's revived Kalinin front often
sive, bolstered by bombing of several
German air bases, had smashed
through defenses northwest OF
Rzhev, which the invaders called
"the line of the Fuehrer."
Nazis Repelled in Mozdok Area.
In addition to the rout of two
German divisions in the Don-Volga
corridor fighting northwest OF Stall
inerad, the Russians said a third
enemy division-the 18th Rumanlan
Mountain Infantry-had been bat
tered back by Red marines in the
battle for the Caucasian Black sea
coast below Novorossisk.
Repulse of enemy attacks was
noted in the Mozdok area.
A Red Star dispatch said the
Immediate objective of the Germans
attacking Stalingrad is control OF
northwest industrial sector, but de-
clared they had been repulsed after
wedging into workers settlement
Monday.
Conditions in the city remain
serious" the Army newspaper said.
THE Germans have big losses, but
the attacks do not lessen and vlo-
lence grows"
The press published photographs
OF Stalingrad The views resembled
a battered and burned section OF the
CITY of London after the big fire
raids. Corners of buildings stood
in the air like charred chimneys.
1,5OO Germans Wiped Out.
Soviet Information Bureau COM
munioues told of the death of more
than $500 Germans in vain efforts
to widen the northwestern penera-
ton yesterday A defense mortar
detachment was said to have wiped
out 800 more. Red artillerymen were
credited with the destruction of II
German trucks and several tanks.
Red Star said German rockets
looped through the night sky and
floated down by parachute to light
the areas in the northwestern out
skirts. The Germans there fear the
dark. suspecting sudden Red Army
attacks. the newspaper said. Dry
grass of the steppes was ablaze.
The Russians were reported to
have overcome German bomber at
tacks in this sector, although how
was not specified. Revising assault
tactics. the Germans are moving up
their tommy-gunners in armored
cars
The midday communique report
ed that artillerymen of one unit in
the region had killed about 900 Ger
mans, disabled or fired Is tanks and
destroyed five field guns, 35 machine
guns and 27 supply trucks.
A sidelight of this battle of the
steppes which RACES westward to the
Don bend was reported by the COM
munique, detailing an attack by
German infantry and tanks on a
sector held by elite Soviet detach-
ments.
When the enemy tanks ap-
preached within close distance" 1t
said our anti-tank fighters opened
fire and burnt four tanks. About a
company of enemy infantry was
wiped out
Five Axis Trawlers Sunk.
olT1eT wal uSNciokHiSllcS "ClN
varied.
Soviet Black Sea aerial forces
were credited with sinking five AXIS
trawlers, six barges, four power
boats and seven torpedo boats in a
week in support of the Western
Caucasian ground forces battling to
hold the invaders from Tuapse.
"A Berlin radio broadcast
quoted a Nazi military spokes-
man today rs saying German
troops had reached the suburbs
of Tuapse, a Black Sea naval
station about rs miles below No
vorossiskD
The midday communiQue said
that following the rout OF the Ru-
manian mountain division, Red ma
rines captured height, destroyed
as dugouts, seven blockhouses and
four headquarters and slew about
500 German and Rumanian troops.
The Communist party newspaper
pravda reported that light Russian
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