Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-03
Cossd(ks Fight
Ndzi Tanks on
1OO-MiIe Front
Waves Of Bombers
Smash at Foe Attack
in Battle for Caucasus
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Stiffening all along the front from
the area south Of RoStov 10 klet-
sksya, 20 miles northwest Of
Stalingrad in the north bend of
the Don River, where the Germans
were driving for the Volga and
the Stalingrad industrial area.
II was indicated that Marshal
Semyon Timoshenko was throwing
IN reinforcements at carefully Sc
lected points of key sectors, and
that strong forces of heavy tanks
were moving TO the front.
In the Kletskaya area, the COM
lmunique reported, the Russians
lrepulsed several German tank and
infantry attacks supported by air.
planes.
NIGHT ASSAULT SMASHED
In the Tsimlyanskaya sector,
midway between Rostov an d
Stallngrad. he Russians were
holding stoutly against Germans
seeking 10 drive southwark across
the Don.
Failing TO make substantial prog
ress by frontal attacks, the Ger
mans sent small parties of tommy
gunners across the river by boat
during the night.
Russians on the south side of
the Don saw them in mid-river in
the bright moonlight. a special dis
patch 10 the newspaper Pravda
reported They sent up rockets as
a signal 10 artillery. and the guns,
opening UP at once. broke the at
Itacks.
Big forces OF Russian planes
were sent into action 10 attack the
pontoon bridges which the Ger
man engineers sought day and
might TO throw across the river.
PLANES WRECK BRIDGES
AS fast as the bridges were
built. the planes smashed them.
but it was emphasized that the
Germans were attacking untir-
ingly despite their heavy losses
and that each day they were re-
doubling their efforts under sup
port of planes and artillery.
Russian light cavalry roved
along the south bank of the Don
rounding up small enemy detach-
.ments and reinforcements OF ar
.tillery. cavalry and infantry.
Pravda reported that the Rus
SLAMS had destroyed about 1000
Germans who sought TO take an
inhabited point on the south side
and said Russian resistance was
Strengthening with the aid of
planes which supported counter
attacks against bridgeheads.
LENINGRAD FRONT ACTIVE
Though the noon communiqueI
emphasized the critical fight in
the south. it mentioned reconnais-
sance activity on the Leningrad
front in the north, where the Rus
slams had made a series of at-I
lacks designed to forestall an
NhPCNiCu 1CllildIl OlltIlSlNt.
Sailors and marines of the Sea
OF Azov fleet, effecting a landingI
on the coast, apparently west of
Kushchevka, on the Caucasus rail-
road. so miles south of Rostov, cut
their way through the German
rear to join army men.
Naval planes attacked German
columns moving down the coast
and smashed pontoon bridges at
river crossings, the newspaper Red
Fleet said.
NAZI TANKS DESTROYED
In the Salsk area. where the
Germans had made their deepest
penetration in their threat to COM
munlcations with the Caucasus,
trench mortars destroyed II Ger
man tanks and anti-aircraft guns
downed three dive-bombers.
The midnight communique re-
ported that German and Hun
garian troops continued their vain
attacks in the Voronezh area. 300
miles north OF Rostov. and that
in one fight more than 500 Ger
mans were killed.