The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30
Not One Step Back Is Red Star Quotation of Sta-
 lin's Commands RETREAT NOW MEANS
 DISASTER TO RUSSIA Timoshenko Is Trying to Obey Orders Under Sev.
 crest Handicap
BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent,

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Moscow, July 30. = (UP) - Premier Josef Stalin to- day ordered the Red Army to halt it's retreat in the Cau- casus in a fight ito victory or death" and the official Army organ, Red Star, said that any further withdrawal will place Russia's fate in mortal danger.
 The warnings of threatened dis aster unless the Soviet forces stand their ground against the massive German blows were issued as the Russians fell back before onslaughtS of Nazi tanks, infantry and planes south of the Don and the enemy sought to tighaten steel wise upon Stalingrad.
 Not one step back" the Red Star quoted Stalin as saying. Every officer and man must stand his ground and fight to the bitter ! end, he said
 "The execution of this task means the preservation of our country, the destruction of the hated enemy and 8 guarantee of victory" The Red Star added that "our country is big but the Red Army cannot withdraw farther without placing the fate of our country and people in mortal danger"
 TimoshenkO Trying
 Official advices told of Marshal Semyon Timoshenkos Red Army troops, outnumbered but valiant, falling back south of Rostov and fighting bitter battles northeastward along the Don.
 Russian artillery was said to have shattered a German mechanical attack near Kletskaya at the big bend of the Don about 75 miles northwest of Stalingrad on the Vol ga, Russia's great industrial and war center of the south upon which the Germans are attempting to lock a steel trap.
 (The German high command said Its forces had plunged southward beyond the Don for a distance of 75 miles across the Caucasian steppes and had cut the vital rail- road from Stalingrad to the Black Sea at several points. The rail line runs both to the Black Sea and to the Baku oil fields near the Cas- plan.
 (The Germans said that Soviet forces in the bend of the Don have been cut off from retreat eastward toward Stalingrad by huge en- veloping attack that threw up 8 wall of Axis troops between the Don defenders and those of Stalingrad.
 (South of the Don. southeast of fallen Rostov, the Germans claimed the capture of Preletarskaya, which is 75 miles below the Don)
 Heavy Fighting
 "In the region of Bataisk, heavy fighting is going on," the commun- ique asserted. "The enemy made 3 series of attacks and on several sec- tor managed to advance. Our sold- iers, in the course of a day, stem. med an enemy onslaught. Nine hundred of the enemy were killed"
 Fighting as bitter as that south of Rostov was raging around the Don bend. front-line dispatches said.
 The government organ Pravda said the enemy had drawn rein- forcements from other fronts in an effort to break across the Don at Kletskaya, 75 miles northwest of Stalingrad. and in the vicinity of Tsimlyanskaya, halfway between Rostov and Stalingrad. closing 8 wise on the bend of the Don.
 Apparently the Germans had lost patience with the progress of tteir drives across the Don. Some units
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