The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-03
REDS HALT NAZE
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 Dispatches said the Germans failed to gain 8 yard today. Tn sev- eral previous days, they had achieved only minor successes and at a tre- mendous cost.
 An encircled Soviet unit was try- ing to break out, and front-line dis patches said 1t was taking heavy enemy forces to hold it. A whole German infantry division (15.000 men) was operating in one district, vainly trying to enlarge its base and improve its positions.
 Soviet guards commanded by General RodimStev, an outstanding hero of the battle, held Q powerful thrust of tank and infantry forces pushing toward the Volga. Then he counter -attacked the Germans flank, flung them back, and began clearing them from houses they had seized.
 Another Russian linit withstood successive attacks by German in- fantry division. The Germans gained slightly, then the Russians 4ulAVO 04SAA bASAs
 Among reoccupied points was one large, four-story building dominat- ing an important industrial dis trict.
 So stout was Soviet resistance, dispatches said, that concentrated attacks by 45 German tanks with attachments of tommy gunners on a narrow street failed.
 The Soviet noon communique re- ported that tank unit X had broken into enemy positions and destroyed two tanks, a number of guns and 150 Germans.
 Unit x was fighting in Marshal | Semyon TimoShenko's counter of fensive, northwest of Stalingrad, | 50 to 75 miles away from the Ger mans thrust in the northwestern part of the city. On the east and west banks of the Don, in that counter offensive, the Russians were steadily widening 8 wedge n | the German left flank.
 The Germans were futilely coun- ter-attacking with powerful tank and infantry forces. Yesterday, the Russians captured an important hill in the area, and 130 tanks, which the Germans had buried and were using as small fortresses in a desperate attempt to stop the Rus SianS.
 Of Unit KS gain, the noon com- munique said:
 "Tank Unit x broke into enemy positions and destroyed by fire and caterpillars (their treads) two tanks, a number of guns and 150 of the enemy. Soviet artillery de- troyed or disabled four tanks and IT trucks carrying infantry" Of fighting in the Stalingrad area, it said:
 ". Soviet guards wiped out more than 200 of the enemy. On another sector, they repulsed three attacks, destroyed four tanks and wiped out a company"
 Red Star reported that the Ger man drive toward Gromy from the Mozdok area of the eastern Caucasus, had been slackened by tremendous losses. The Germans, bringing up fresh forces, had made the Russians retire to new positions on one sector yesterday.
 The Germans had started 8 Su- preme effort to get to Grozny with huge forces simultaneously with their big offensive in the north western section of Stalingrad.
 Tn the Mozdok area, Soviet in- fantry repulsed infantry and tanks" the noon communique said. "On one sector, our forces disabled and burned eight tanks and wiped out a company. On another sector, they repulsed several attacks, killed 365 of the enemy and disabled five tanks"
 Southeast of NovorOssisk, fresh Rumanian division was attacking on several sectors, trying to recoup recent losses in Soviet counter thrusts. They have not made the slightest progress. Although the Germans occupied Novorossisk, a I former Soviet Black Sea base, three weeks ago today, they apparently have not got far beyond 1t in an effort to drive down the coast road to the oil port of Batum, on the Turkish frontier