... THRUST REPORTED NAZI USE OF PARACHUTISTS LANDING ACROSS KERCH STRAITS NAZIS HELD IN DON BATTLES While Russians are holding von Bock’s direct thrust towards Stalingrad, their position the northern Caucasus is not so favourable. Moscow despatches to-day indicate ...

... Battle for Stalingrad Red Star also reports that on the Kotelnikov front—loo miles south-west of Stalingrad—the Germans succeeded in driving a wedge into the Soviet positions in one sector, forcing the Red Army men to fall back to new defence lines, but ...

... Von Bock’s Next Objectives Vichy radio to-day said that the battle tor Stalingrad is now nearing its climax. The Russians, opposing an attempt to encircle the city from the north, have launched fresh counter-attacks, but Von Bock’s forces are increasing ...

... Russia’s Ordeal In Russia the great battles for Stalingrad and the Caucasus move on to an end which inay be predestined, but which cannot yet be foreseen. There are still two hopeful factors, grim as are the struggle and the outlook our Allies are holding ...

... DECISIVE STAGE AT HAND The great battle for Stalingrad is approaching its climax. According to Vichy radio, Berlin military spokesmen are now saying that the fate of Stalingrad will be settled before the end of the week.” The Germans are taking the line ...

... For the first time, Stalingrad was mentioned in a Soviet communique last night, reference being made to fighting north-west of the city, with the comment that ” The situation here is complicated.” The gigantic battle for Stalingrad overshadows all other ...

... attempt to arrest further progress. “ Enormous Losses The latest Moscow report on the battle for Stalingrad stated that northwest of the city Soviet troops fought fierce battles with an enemy group which had infiltrated into the Soviet positions. The Germans ...

... FIERCE FIGHTING NAZI CLAIM TO NOVOROSSISK The Russians, hitting back at the enemy in the vital battle of Stalingrad, have improved their positions north-west of the city. Fierce fighting in both the areas from which it is particularly threatened, north-west ...

... tanks, 90 guns of all types, an armoured train, several ships and large quantities of other war material. Of the battle for Stalingrad the communique says that in spite of stubborn resistance German troops took further number of heights. The Volga, bridges ...

... NO MORE PROGRESS NAZIS ADMIT SOVIET COUNTER-ATTACKS As the vital battle of Stalingrad enters its eighth week to-day, Marshal Timoshenko’s troops are fighting desperately to stem Von Bock's renewed mass frontal attack on the city. In spite of tremendously ...

... aircraft in the past four weeks. In the week-end tank battles 124 German tanks were destroyed or damaged. But while German progress is slow, the danger to Stalingrad is constantly growing, big battles, whipped up to white heat fury, now ra i>n three sides ...

... Stalingrad Many of us find it very difficult to reconcile some the almost I inconsequential reports put out Iby both High Commands, with the statement that the Battle for Stalingrad is the most terrible of the war—and therefore, by inference, the most ...