Evening star., 1942-10-24
Defenders RepuIse
New Assaults
On StoIingrod
BY HENRY C. CASSIDY,


MOSCOW, Oct. 24.-Red Army
troops preached the front line of
the Germans fortified left flank
northwest of Stalingrad and the
city'S garrison repulsed all at
tacks to hold a northside factory
against a tank-supported infan-
try brigade despite a shower OF
$500 Stuka bombs, the Russians
said today.
Clouds which recently brought
rain and snow to the steppes evi-
IDENTIFY had lifted, for the army news
paper Red Star indicated that Ger
man aerial activity was increased
from flights of five or six planes.
The noon communique said Ger
man automatic rifle detachment
which pierced the factory lines mo-
mentarily was wiped out to man
by the defenders.
The communique told. without de-
tail, of Russian thrust which
forced gap in the Nazi-fortified
area to the northwest.
Red Star said the Russian relief
army operating there had intensi-
fed its operations, advanced some
what and improved its positions
Finding a weakly defended junction
between two German units, a dis
patcn said, the Russians opened an
offensive and broke into the enemy
front line.
Counterattack Checked.
The Germans counterattacked but
after day-long, hand-to-hand fight
ing inside the Nazi positions. they
were elected with loss of TOO dead
and were forced to retreat, Red Star
said.
While the victors were occupying
this line, a neighboring Red Army
force was reported to have pressed
supporting attack in which it
killed 300 Germans. captured pris-
oners and material and improved
the Russian positions.
(The German high command
asserted. that, Nazi infantry and
armored formations again at
tackled inside Stalingrad yester-,
day and in fierce house-to house
fighting threw the enemy out of
various streets"
The German troops took "the
greater part of the Red October
works and advanced to the Volga,"
the comrnunique said. Russian
relief attacks north of Stalingrad
were described as weak" and
unsuccessful.
(Nazi military quarters were
quoted as saying Marshal Semeon
Timoshenko's relief army had at
tanned numerical superiority for
the drive against the entrenched
Axis flank northwest of Stalin-
grad. but nowhere succeeded in
breaking into the main German
fighting line.D
61st Day of Siege.
This was the 61st day of the siege
OF Stalingrad.
Field reports indicated more thar
2,200 Germans were killed withir
and outside the city yesterday while
Soviet ground gunners and fighter.
were accounting for 27 of the score.
OF Nazi planes sent against them.
Loss of water barrier by the de.
tenders of the western Caucasus wa.
acknowledged in the noon com.
munique. The invaders, striking
Southeastward from Novorossisk
were reported to have crossed tn,
stream in the drive on the port O
Tuapse.
Russian counterattacks blocked
expansion of the bridgehead. how
/ ever, and 180 Germans were killed i,
one sector. the communique said
The stream was not identified, bu
1t apparently was one of the noun
tainted southern tributaries of tn,
Kuban.
! The Soviet radio said Soviet war
ships had attacked an enemy
occupied port on the Black Sea
scoring hits on military objective
and causing several big fires.
A 10,000-ton German transpor
was declared sunk in the Baltic.
Riflemen Wiped Out.
A tank-supported infantry brigad,
was marshaled against a northsid,
factory in the battle of Stalingrat
yesterday and group of German
automatic rif1emen broke through
the outskirts of the defenses, bu
the attacks were repulsed and tn,
automatic riflemen were complete
ly wiped out" the Russians said.
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