Evening star., 1942-09-04
Nozis, Gain Below Sto|inqrod
AS Reds Recover Some Ground:
Won Book Using Is Divisions
Strategic Height Is
Won by Germans in
Novorossisk Drive
By the Associated Press.

against Stalingrad with Is divi-
sions today in an effort to capi-
talize on wedges driven system
atically into its defenses, but
Red Army men we're reported to
have counterattacked with a vio-
lence that regained some ground
northwest of the city.
Germans striking from the south
west again succeeded in making a
slight advance at enormous cost, the
mid day war bulletin reported.
Tass spoke of fighting on "the i'm
mediate approaches to the town"
and said "the Hitlerites' tank COL
umns decimated in previous engage
ments have been considerably re-
plenished."
I'm Berlin the German high
command announced that Nazi
troops had driven into the sub
urbs of Stalingrad and that
forces from the Crimea were as
sisting in operations against the
Russian-held Caucasian Black
Sea coast after crossing Kerch
Strait Tuesday,
The battles have no precedent in
their violence" the military news
paper Red Star said. 1t reported
pilots from Egypt had joined the
enemy's air squadrons while ground
troops from France were among the
as Axis divisions assigned from a
1000, ,000-man army for the assault
on Stalingrad, commercial heart of
the Volga basin and a gateway to
the Caspian.
Reds Capture Village.
Red Army men fighting within the
Don bend around Kletskaya, harass-
ing the Axis detachments moving
eastward across the Cossack steppes,
occupied another village and re-
pulsed several attacks, the
communique announced.
The Germans gained a strategic
height in the battle for NovoroSsisk,
Soviet naval base on the Black Sea
more than 400 miles southwest of
Stalingrad, by weight of superior
numbers, it was announced.
Elsewhere n that sector, however,
the Russians were reported to have
withstood several attacks and de-
stroyed six tanks and wiped out
more than $50 Germans.
In the Mozdok area (of the CEN
trail Caucasus, our troops fought
and wiped out an enemy group which
had crossed a water line" the COM
munique said. CThe Terek River
flows past Mozdok and the Grozny
oil fields on its way to the Caspian
Sea-
Nazis Attack CeaselessIy.
The Germans were pictured as
attacking southwestern defenses of
Stalingrad ceaselessly with large
forces in narrow sector, tanks
seeking to open paths for infantry
men.
"At a cost of enormous losses the
Hitlerites succeeded in making a
slight advance" the communique
said. I'm other sectors the enemy
attacks were repulsed with heavy
losses"
Soviet riflemen supported by tanks
were declared to have broken into
enemy positions above the city.
I'm a fierce engagement the Red
Army men wiped out two companies
of Hitlerites, destroyed four tanks
and nine anti-tank guns and
captured five mortars and eight
machineguns," the communique re-
ported.
A Stalingrad dispatch said Ger
man planes, flying from various
points of the compass, were attack
ing the city regularly in waves OF
$50 or more.
Reinforcements were declared tc
have given the German command 9
superiority of two or three to one
over the Russians on some sectors
while the Soviet Information
Bureau made no further mention
or the Red Army offensive
launched on the central front a
month ago today, German dis
patch broadcast from Berlin said
strong Nazi squadrons "contin-
ued their unceasing and effective
attacks on Soviet troops and
: tank concentrations in the Rzhev
area" on the upper Volga north
west of Moscow.
cDive bombers Thursday de-
stroyed Is Soviet tanks in this
sector and silenced large num-
ber Of guns" the Berlin radio
said German chasers shot
: down Is Soviet airplanes.")
Nazis Fight to Cross River.
In the Central Caucasus the Ger
mans were reported pressing
strong offensive for crossings in tn
Terek River basin both aroun,
Mozdok and at Prokhladnensk
Soviet observers expressed belief tn
defense divisions were outnumbere,
in men as we'll as In machines an,
planes.
The NaZi purpose is two-fold: q
To seize the Grozny oil fields to tn
east; 90 to advance upon Ord
,zhonixidze, so miles southwest G
Grozny, the terminus of militar
highway leading over the noun
tains to Tiflis.
Once repulsed yesterday, MAJ
shock troops struck back two hour
late across a battlefield strewn wit
tank wreckage and the bodies c
about 400 German dead to force tn
Russians from strongly held posi-
tions northwest of Stalingrad.
The. Soviet Information Burea
announced the withdrawal at mid
night and reported that the Rus
slams guarding southwestern ar
approaches of the Volga River in
dustrial center were stiffly engage
also with the enemy tanks and ir
fantry which had broken throug
into our defense zone" This We
within an area of half dozen re
cent retreats.
Nazi combat teams also game
ground northwest of the Soviet ma
val station at NovoroSsisk, on til
Black Sea below Kerch Strait, in al
tacks preceded by aerial and artilier
bombardments. the government salt
1T reported that Red Army me
yielded village before the invasio
wedge after heavy fighting,