Evening star., 1942-09-07
Battle Is Going On
In Streets Of VoIgo
City, Germans Say
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Sept. Taking q
stand at a critical moment OF
the battle for Stalingrad, with
the Germans reported trying to
break into the city itself, the
Russian defenders again threw
the invaders back to the north
west and broke up two deter
mined attacks to the southwest
the Red Army reported today.
(The Berlin radio broadcast a
dispatch from Stockholm today
saying that severe street fighting
was in progress in Stalingrad and
that leach house is obstinately
defended" The Stockholm re-
port quoted by Berlin described
the fighting as fierce struggle
of man against man."
un Berlin the German news
agency DN.B. said a German
high command announcement
listed 46 Red Army divisions and
80 brigades as smashed by Ger
man forces in the fighting from
May / to August 3D.
Unofficial reports concerning the
Russian stand at Stalingrad said
that the time apparently had ar
rived when the Russians could no
longer afford to retreat and were
forced to trade blows with the
t1lassed might of the Germans.
Sailors Fight for Novorossisk.
Sailors of the Red fleet joined
the struggle around the Black Sea
naval base at Novorossisk, indicat-
Ing the gravity of the position there.
The sailors held a strategic hill
against German storming unit and
killed more than 100 German SOL
diers, the midday Russian commu-
nique said.
(The German high command
announced last night that Nov
orossisk, an important Russian
naval base, had been captured
after a hard fight of several
days, leaving the Russian Black
Sea feet only the inadequate
base at Batum.)
German pressure was increasing,
too, on the narrow wedge driven
part way across the north Caucasus
along the Rostov-Baku railway to
the region of Mozdok, only SIS miles
from the oil fields of Grozny.
The Russians reported they were
fighting an enemy force which sue
ceeded in crossing water line, pre-
sumably the Terek River. One
Soviet unit wiped out two COM
panies of German infantry here and
displayed great self-sacriflce, the
communique said.
Second Report of Gains.
1t was the second time in IL
hours that the Russians reported
gains northwest of Stalingrad.
Bloody fighting was continuing in
that arena as the Germans, appar-
emily needless of the cost, battered
at the Russian defenses in an ef-
fort to take the Volga citadel before
the arrival of unfavorable weather.
Five burned out German tanks
and $50 German officers and men
remained on the field of battle there
after the successful Russian attack,
the midday communique said. In
addition a number of prisoners were
taken and some equipment captured.
In nearby sector, two companies
of German infantry were reported
wiped out in a fierce engagement.
Southwest OF Stalingrad, the Rus
slams opened up with terrific cur
tain of mortar and machine-gun
fire after the Germans pierced their
deferses and then, in the confusion,
struck at the Nazi flank and sent
the Germans reeling into retreat,
the communique said.
"A short time later the Hitlerites
launched another attack in this
sector which likewise failed" the
communique said.
All indications were that the Rus
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