Evening star., 1942-10-01
Reds at Sto|ingrod, Attacking
On Stain Order, Score Gains;
Advance on Don Also Reported
City Facing Most
Decisive Moment
Russians Report
By EDDY GILMORE,

AssoclaIeo Press war Correspondent.
MOSCOW, Oct. 1.-Backed up
by a stream OF reinforcements
from across the Volga and bar
RACES from the rowing guns of
the Volga hotilla, Russian infan-
trymen under fresh, telephoned
orders from Joseph Stain to
yield no more were reported
crunching forward today north
west and southwest of Stain
grad.
Dispatches to Red Star from
Stalin's namesake city frankly pic
tured it as in the most decisive
moment" of it's trial as an increas-
ing weight Of Axis troops and ma
chimes was thrown into the fight.
"a Reuters dispatch to Lon
don from Stockholm said today
that Marshal Semeon Timoshen-
kos forces, battling to relieve
Stallngrad, had broken through
the German defensive position
at some points along the Don
northwest of Stalingrad)
Gn Berlin the German high
command said that several more
wedges had been driven into the
northern section of Stalingrad
and reported the destruction of
90 tanks which led a strong
Soviet counterthrust farther
north)
Keep Communications Open.
The counterofensive strokes on
the wings of the CONSTRUCTED front
evidently were designed to wipe out
or offset new wedge driven into
the northwestern flank by a fresh
German tank division, as reported in
the kremlin's midnight communique.
Even with the arrival of that pan
zer division and two fresh infantry
divisions, the. Germans seemed un-
able to deal the decisive blow At
the same time Volga boatmen were
keeping communications open across
the river, bringing up Russian re-
serves under fierce German air at
tacks.
Red Star said that from 600 to
1000 planes had been bombing Stall
ingrad each day, piling debris on
debris.
Hundreds of civilians clinging to
the tumbled walls of their homes and
factories were reported to have died
under the continued bombings.
Schools, hospitals, the public library,
the University and Palace of Physi-
cal Culture were said to have been
destroyed.
Three Settlements Retaken.
Today's midday communique said
the enemy had been dislodged from
one village at the southwestern out
skirts of Stalingrad, and Red Star
said that in that southern sector
three settlements had been recap
tured, with Rumanian troops thrown
into panic in one place.
Another height was seized in the
Russian relief offensive northwest of
Stalingrad, where several Axis divi-
sions were reported massing in sup
port of the drive already estimated
to be employing as many as 500 900
OF Adolf Hitler's troops.
Captured railways helped the
Germans in the transport of men
and supplies.
Secretary A. Chuianov of Stalin-
grads Communist Party Committee
reported in a dispatch to Moscow
that Stalin's words had played
definite role in the stubborn de-
fense.
The newspaper Pravda said thou
sands of civilians were aiding the
Red Army troops in street battles.
Dozens of tanks and other imple-
ments of war were reported as
sembled in bomb damaged factories
and sent into the fray.
Volga River sailors and dock
workers continued at their Jobs.
moving troops and supplies despite
aerial raids.
Firm Defense Maintained.
The noon communique pictured
the men of Stalingrad In a firm
defense where they were not coun-
terattacking.
1t admitted one reverse elsewhere
on the long front. The invaders
wedged into Soviet positions in one
sector of the Western Caucasian
battle zone southeast of Novorossisk.
Stalingrad mortar gunners were
credited with having disabled or
fired 13 tanks. destroyed siX-bar-
relied mortar and wiped out 500 Ger
mans
A i4-man detachment was cited
for a days fighting during which
the communique said they repulsed
a number of enemy attacks, wiping
out 200 Germans and destroying
two tanks
Red Army troops were said to have
accounted for three more tanks and
killed perhaps $50 Germans in over
(See RUSSIA, Page A-2O)