The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-18
Germans Cross Volga
 River, Seize Village
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i Soviet artillery unit commanded by Kozlukhin destroyed 12 German tanks and wiped out two companies of infantry.
 TWO battalions of enemy infan- try penetrated cue street. The Ger mans were met by the concentrated fire of our artillery and trench mor- tar men. Hand-to-hand fighting developed. The Hitlerites were routed and retreated, having lost up to 500 dead. Our pilots shot down 19 German planes nair com bats"
 Front line dispatches revealed that German tommy -gunnerS had made the latest penetration, after a hurricane of heavy artillery fire, and captured a group of houses, in which they entrenched themselves.
 Russian units especially trained for such action surrounded the dis trict and began to attack every house. The Germans, defending all approaches, sprayed the streets with bullets. But the Russians finally routed them out.
 To Destroy Barricades
 It was plain what the Germans were trying to do. Their efforts to get into Stalingrad so far had been rewarded only by death. They now sought by combined barrage of heavy guns and planes bombing day and night in groups of 80 to 100, to destroy the houses in which the Russians were barricaded, and wipe out the thousands of strong points erected in the street throughout the city.
 Front-line dispatches spoke Of siege methods" employed by the Germans, and frequently mentioned the enemy's fortified entrench- ments on the northwestern out skirts and suburbs, where he had concentrated many anti-tank guns.
 AS the Germans moved forward, they entrenched, to withstand Rus sian counter-thruStS.
 Soviet tanks, and artillery inside Stalingrad, imposed a certain cau- tion on German movements, which were beginning to resemble tactics of the first World War.
 The government newspaper 1z- vestia said the defenders were fight ing to save Stalingrad and the Volga river line on which 1t is built under the most difficult conditions.
 Not only had they to stand the pounding of heavy guns and thou sands of bombs raining down upon them; they also had to keep or the alert for groups of tommy -gunners seeking to penetrate the city and attack in the rear, thus creating confusion and disorganization, so their main forces could break through from the front.
 Russian anti-tankmen, fighting behind brick walls ard houses, re- pulsed several attempts of small panzer groups to advance into the streets, and shattered seven of them
 The Army organ Red Star re- ported especially bitter fighting at two points where the Germans. had suffered heavy defeats. After re- pulsing attacks at one, Russian tanks roared forward and crushed 48 German anti-tank guns. They also destroyed eight tanks ard at least $50 Germans.
 At the other, the Russians drove back a large tank column trying to crash through without infantry. The Germans lost 10 more tanks.
 The noon communique reported that Soviet units had made night attack on the Germans ill the Moz- dok area of the eastern Caucasus, destroying four tanks and up to a company of infantry Evidently, the Germans, who broke across the Terek river in that area two weks ago in an effort to get at the nearby Grozny oil fields, were making little or no progress.
 Southeast of NovoroSsisk, Russian Marines in two days destroyed three German tanks and an anti tank gun and killed up to com pany of infantry, the communique said. The Russians withdrew from Novorossisk, a Black Sea naval  base, week ago and apparently now were fighting of German ef- forts to advance down the coastal road that runs southeast through Tupase to Batum, on the Turkish border.
 The noon communique also re- vealed that the Russians had att tackled enemy-FiniSh positions on the Karelian front.
 'The Films were surprised and retreated, abandoning war mate rials." it said.
 "The enemy soon made several counter-attacks, which were re- pulsed. In the course of fighting, up to two companies of enemy in fantry were wiped out, one artillery battery captured and four heavy machine guns destroyed and other booty captured"