... pressure has been tran«‘ i to the flanks. The Stalingrad 011 1.) a German army group forcing tb* towards the Volga. The delaying action is at Kalach and '“ valley the Chir. This is the fo*'' battle for Stalingrad. It is the defeat for General Paulus, to corner ...

... SOVIET COUNTER-ATTACK IN STALINGRAD BATTLE Fresh counter-attacks have been launched by the Russians in the Don elbow as the third week of the battle for Stalingrad draws to an end. On the Voronezh front, too, the fifth day of their offensive finds the ...

... KRASNODAR Germans repulsed in tank BATTLE FOR STALINGRAD AN improvement in the Russian position in the Caucasus, /**% and also on the Stalingrad front, was reported in messa es from Moscow yesterday. The German nce in the Caucasus is being slowed down ...

... communications can be kept open only if the Lower Volga is successfully defended. In these circumstances the battle for Stalingrad is as crucial as the battle for Moscow last year, and Timoshenko’s grim and tenacious resistance is fresh proof of his brilliant ...

... defence, and grappling at close quarters in the bend on the other side of the river with right flank army. The real battle for Stalingrad has not begun, since Paulus has not won his way out of the Don bend and will lose another army before he does. Threat ...

... Grozny. German troops, according to Vichy, have reached Budiennovsk, two-thirds of the way to the Caspian. In the vital battle for Stalingrad Soviet troops are firmly holding their positions north-west of Kotelnikovski, the danger point 110 miles south-east ...

... _ of Stalingrad, drove a new wedge into the Red Army lines defending the Volga industrial centre in the Kotelnikovsk sector. Fresh Nazi forces, brought out of reserve or switched from other sectors, piled steadily into the battle for Stalingrad, on which ...

... SAYS BERLIN IERLIN declares that the decisive battle for Stalingrad has begun, and Moscow reports leave no room for doubt that the battles at the approaches to °lga city have assumed a graver character. and south-west of the city Marshal Timoshenko’s ...

... CUT OFF IN their drive towards Stalingrad the Germans are now less than forty miles from the Volga city. The enemy forces in the Southern fighting are stated to number over 1,000,000. At Kotelnikovo, south-west of Stalingrad, many German tanks which formed ...

... decisive battle for Stalingrad.” Yet while we are bound to recognise the intense seriousness of the position, on which the future of Russian lines of communication so largely depends, may at least recall that last year there was also a decisive battle for ...

... NEW PRESSURE ON STALINGRAD RUSSIANS FALL BACK IN SOUTH-WEST A CAUCASUS COUNTER-ATTACK RENEWED German pressure south-west of Stalingrad has forced the Russians to fall back along the railway • north-east of Kotelnikovsk. The fighting along the 200-miles ...

... push for STALINGRAD Ngers tighten on the CITY tern suburbs reached, SAYS BERLIN fights on scale of the battle OF BRITAIN °SCOW and Berlin messages show that the crisis of [ the battle for Stalingrad is at hand. Von Bock, in his attempt to smash into the ...