Evening star., 1942-10-27
Germans Driven
Out Of Southern
5ta|ingrad Area
Assault on Restored
Russian Defenses
In North Fails
BY HENRY C. CASSIDY,
Associated Press War Correspondent.

ASSOCldteo FIesS WdE SOI1espouoCn1s
MOSCOW, Oct. 27-The Ger
mans lost a foothold in the
southern industrial section OF
Stalingrad and fell back to the
barren steppes outside the city
today under Red Army counter
attacks while Nazi assaults were
reported to have beaten futily on
restored defenses of a northside
factory.
Russian pressure against the Ger
man fanks both south and north
west of Stalingrad appeared to be
growing and the invaders struggled
Intellectually to make more than
slight gains within the city, the Rus
slams said.
Reporting on one phase of the
action south of the Volga River
stronghold, the Soviet Information
| Bureau said Soviet units had de-
stroyed 10 machine-gun posts and
26 blockhouses and dugouts at the
outskirts.
Izvestia said the Germans had
| been thrown back behind the low,
rolling hills which rim the southern
edge of Stalingrad, placing their
front $50 yards from the city boun-
Diary, and chimneys of the battle
SCARED Soviet factories in that area
continued to smoke.
German Losses Heavy.
One Red Army division was cred-
tied with killing 1000 Germans and
Rumanians in six days, routing sur
vivors from their positions and oc-
cupying new lines.
Pravda said that, because of heavy
losses, the Germans were unable
any longer to press attacks on all
sectors.
Red Air Force storm planes and
bombers attacked enemy defenses
south and northwest of Stalingrad,
while German squadrons concen-
trated their attention on the city
district.
More than 1900 enemy flights
were reported from one Stalingrad
sector.
The noon communique reported
about a battalion of enemy infan-
try was wiped out and six tanks
were destroyed in the northern Sec
ton, where the Germans had been
evicted from the defenses of fac
tory area after flve-hour fight
yesterday.
More than four companies of Ger
man rlfemen were declared to have
perlshed in the southern outskirts
and these accounts were coupled
with a report of the repulse of all
Nazi attacks on the steppes north
west of the city.
Nazis Ousted by Flank Attack.
"One Soviet infantry unit alone
has killed about 300 Hitlerities and
set six German tanks afire and de-
stroyed four guns and seven ma
chine guns" the conlmunique said.
Red Army airmen were credited
with destroying about so German
trucks, shooting down five German
planes and disabling two others.
A Soviet fanking attack ousted
the Germans from the area of the
northside factory, the Russians an
nounced at midnight.
German prisoners of war stated
that only Is to 30 men are left in
the companies Of the 35th German
Infantry Division, the remainder
having been either killed or wound
ed in the recent fighting" it was
declared.
The Red Army of the Western
Caucasus repulsed attacks north
east OF the port of Tuapse and
struck against tactically important
heights held by the invaders while
east OF Novorossisk "the men Of
one unit attacked the enemy ad-
vanced and improved their posi-
tions." the war bulletin said.
(The German high command
reported new Nazi gains in the
Caucasus today and declared that
! stubborn street and house-to-
| house fighting" was progressing
in Stalingrad)
The operations east of Novorossisk,
which has been in enemy hands
more than six weeks, were reported
to have led to the seizure of nine
machine guns, so automatic rifles,
more than 100 ordinary rifles, and
large quantities of ammunition.
Stalingrads garrison matched the
,, 63-day defense of Odessa and went
!, (see RUSSIA, Page A-l6.)