Evening star., 1942-09-02
Waves of Machines
Hurled at Reds
By Won Book
By EDDY GILMORE.
Associated Press War CORRESPONDENT

Associated Press War Correspondent,
MOSCOW, Sept. 2.-The Rus
slams fought hard today for Stall
ingrad against hordes of German
tanks that had struck deep into
the defense system and nowhere
was there a sign of Soviet weak
ening which might lead to a
major German break through.
On this, the seventh day of the
battle for the great industrial city
on the Volga, Marshal Fedor Won
Book threw waves of tanks against
the city's outer fortifica tions, while
his air force continued almost cease
less bombings of the Red Army and
the city.
The crucial sector was southwest
of the city. Northwest between the
Don bridgeheads and the Volga, the
situation appeared in hand after a
vigorous Russian counterattack had
erased German wedge forcing the
attackers back to their original DO
sitions.
Battle on Sea Coast.
Soviet marines have defeated the
5th and 9Th Rumanian Cavalry
Divisions, destroying 10 per cent of
their strength. in a battle of grow
ing severity for Black Sea coast
positions, a Red fleet dispatch re-
ported today.
The dispatch did not indicate
where the action occurred.
apparently, however, it was in
the area along the Caucasian
coast of the Black Sea, where the
Nazis are trying to reach Novo-
rosslsk, one of the Red fleets
best remaining bases. The Ger
mans announced yesterday that
Rumanlan troops had occupied
Anapa, a Black Sea port north
OF Novorossisk.)
lT'he Germans said they had
reached the Lower Volga, north
of Stalingrad, referring possibly
to the wedge which the Russians
said had been erased. Russian
planes again bombed East Prus-
sla and Poland last night, start
ing several fires in Warsaw, the
German communique added. Ger
man and Rumanian troops were
declared advancing along the
Black Sea littoral southeast of
Anapa despite tough resistance)
CThe Vichy radio reported that
German advance guards were II
miles from Stalingrad and ad-
Vancing along main road to the
city, 4. 3" 3t ,@..'""-t
Story of Stalingrad Struggle.
In the first detailed account of
theg massive struggle southwest of
Stalingrad, Red Star told today how
Marshal Won Book finally cracked
Red Army defenses after throwing
two fresh divisions and hundreds of
planes and tanks into the struggle.
For several days. the army news
paper said. Marshal Semeon Timo-
shenko's men held off the savage
Nazi assaults northeast of Kotelni
kovski. In five days of fighting it
reported the Germans lost thou
sands OF men, 100 tanks and "a
planes.
Paced by 80 tanks, the Germans
then launched two-column as
sault, Red Star related. with in
fantry-l Laden trucks rolling up be-
hind the tanks in simultaneous
dawn attacks. A hundred Nazi
planes filled the sky, pouncing on
Russian positions.
BY the middle of the day Red
Star said the Red Army had met
and turned back both German COL
umns. Marshal Won Book brought
up more troops, tanks and planes
Then in midafternon the second
violent attack was loosed.
In the ensuing wild melee that
lasted until sunset, Soviet defend
ers were blasted from their positions
by the overwhelming weight of Nazj
flre and steel, forcing withdrawal
to new positions.
Reds Score Rzhev Successes.
Further success in the Russians
major offensive in the rain
soaked Rzhev sector 100 miles from
Moscow was claimed officially. The
SOVIET high command said several
more settlements were captured.
Deep in the Caucasus near the
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