Evening star., 1942-10-02
Germans Score Gain
In Stolinerod's
Northwest Sector
BY the Associated Press,

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city and the latest German pow
er drive was said to have been
limited to 200 or 300 yards in the
northwestern suburbs.
Out of the mad maelstrom. on
this seth day of siege. there emerged
the dominant fact that the Ger
mans, though straining with full
reserve power, still were denied even
the localized decision sorely needed
to salve their prestige.
Beyond that it was virtually i'm
possible to assess the situation on
the basis of overlapping and ofttimes
confusing dispatches reaching Mos
COW from the embattled Volga
metropolis
Nazis Gnawing Deeper.
Russian claims included report
that a Red Army guard division
was routing Germans from house
after house in counter attack syn
chronized with Russian offensive
action outside Stalingrad. but at
the same time the Germans were
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northwestern suburbs and progress
sively fortifying their Judgments
inside the city.
One dispatch would picture a re-
version to positional warfare within
Stallngrad and another would tell
OF German tanks charging through
the streets. with as many as. 10
repulsed in one sector of that con-
stricted terrain and several dozen
others blocked elsewhere.
Un Berlin the German high
command announced the capture
of Orlovoi. northwestern suburb
of Stalingrad and the encircle-
ment of major Soviet group to
the west of this center.D
Battle positions passed from de-
fender to attacker and back again
with the currency of poker chips.
Nszi Tank Force Repulsed.
Izvestia reported repulse of Ger
man tank force in the city which
was followed by renewed tank as
sault backed up by motorized in
fantry. Russian reinforcements,
however, arrived in time, counter
attacked and restored the positions.
destroying Is German tanks and
killing hundreds of men, Izvestia
| said.
| Whatever the outcome of the bat
| tie of Stalingrad. the Germans now
seemed to be further than ever from
The final victory they tried to clinch
year ago in the lunge at Moscow
and faced another winter with lines
extended across the inhospitable
steppes.
The Germans pressed their own
! offensive from the northwest even
as the Russians struck back along
the fortified and blast-pitted streets
OF the Volga River industrial center.
Defense Action Stressed.
The noon communique stressed
defensive action within Stalingrad.
1t stated that Russian detachments
accounted for 10 tanks of a large
attacking force with shell fire, rifles
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driving the survivors back to their
initial positions.
The outnumbered flyers of the
Red Air Force were declared to
have brought down nine enemy
planes in combat.
Capture of another settlement
south of Stalingrad and seizure of
a strategic hilltop northwest of
the city were attributed to Red
Army men in the days official
reports.
In the dislodgement of Germans
from the height northwest of Stalin-
/ grad, the noon communique said,
about 300 enemy officers and men
were killed and r8 dugouts and
blockhouses were destroyed.
1.5O0 Wiped Out.
Further tolls were reported levied
on enemy strength on the Mozdok,
Leningrad and Novorossisk fronts.
The communique said one Soviet
unit wiped out about 1,500 German
and Rumanian officers and men in
three days of the battle of the West
! ern Caucasus southeast of Novoros-
SILK.
Fresh Nazi divisions brought from
other fronts rushed into the Stall
lngrad struggle, but the Russians
said decisive turn still was not
sighted.
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AS evidence of the intensity of the
battle. Izvestia reported the Ger
mans rained 5000 shells as we'll as
many trench mortar projectiles
against one narrow Russian salient.
The newspaper estimated the Nazi
offensive in the northwestern suburbs
gained only 200 or 800 yards, and
said these cost the invaders heavy
casualties. The fighting in that
area was reported centered about a
settlement where the Russians had
slain 900 of the enemy in two days.
Inside the city, penetrated pre-
viously from the south and west,
the Germans were said to be forti-
flying every house left standing.
Dispatches said the invaders were
telling the trees which made Stain
grad one of the garden cities of the
Soviet Union to clear fields of fire
for their guns.
Tanks Fight Duels.
Despite this work, however, the
army newspaper Red Star said Rus
sian troops elected the Germans
progressively from their footholds
with the guard division, commanded
by a Gen. Rodintzev. taking the lead
In sweeping through the Nazi lines.
Red Army tanks were reported
blocking enemy tanks with q fierce
drumfire Of shells. Red Air Force
fighters dueled with Nazi bombers.
Soviet troops both above and be-
low Stalingrad were converting
farm houses and cabins into defen-
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