Show I Russ Wrest Strongholds j From Foe at Stalin Stalingrad grad Il RIVER FLOTILLA S JOINS FIGHT S t I AT STALINGRAD I Defenders Slash Down Enemy By Thousands By y EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW Sept 24 21 UP lP Red IP-Red Red Red army men of Stalingrad have torn a group of fortified positions positions positions from the German grip re recaptured recaptured recaptured re- re captured a settlement northwest northwest northwest north north- west of the city and sl slain in more than invaders in a dramatic dramatic dramatic dra dra- j matic resurgence of both defensive defensive sive and offensive power the r Russians said Thursday I of the day implied that there was not a single new break in Russian lines within the streets streets- of the embattled Volga river city The Germans were reported reported reported re re- re- re ported again hurriedly bringing up reinforcements by plane to fill their ranks The red navys navy's Volga river gunboats gunboats gunboats gun gun- boats helped red army artillerymen artillery artillery- men machine gunners and riflemen riflemen riflemen rifle rifle- men mow down the invaders by bythe bythe bythe the thousands Official reports of midnight and midday listed additional tanks and more than 48 field guns gunsT ps as wre wrecked k d o or captured in fc fresh h T actions ac- ac ac 7 of the bitter old month-old battle Hold to Barricades Russians were declared doggedly dogged dogged- ly holding their positions in barricaded barricaded barricaded barri barri- streets and smoking ing ruins under shot shells and bombs and the fact that Stalingrad never a fortress city still held out on the day of its siege was regarded here as one of the greatest testaments testaments testaments testa testa- ments to the skill and courage of the red army The army newspaper Red Star said the current fighting was the most intense of the battle The Germans were declared to have used tanks as a a. shield for forone forone forone one push into the body of the city only to be repulsed Nazi troops seized a large building building building build build- ing in violent fighting Soviet patrols patrols patrols pa pa- rushed its approaches and overpowered guards on the stairways stairways stair stair- ways in corridors and rooms Finally Red Star said Russian fighters armed with explosives blew up the structure with the tho Germans inside On Other Oilier Fronts German attacks were declared tb to have led only to reverses on four r rother other sectors of the flung far-flung front in the area on the tho river at southwest southwest southwest south south- west of No and in the Continued Continue on an Page Pact Two Column Five 1 RUSS RIP FORTS FROM FRd NAZIS Continued Stein from Pact Pace One On region of the central Cau Cau- casus Soviet troops repulsed several I attacks overnight In the Stalingrad area and boosted to more than the roll of invaders killed in the last four days the Russians said One soviet tank unit has dislodged dislodged dis- dis lodged the Germans from fortified positions destroying six tanks and several everal trucks and killing Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans the midday announced Men of one soviet elite unit destroyed an artillery battery and andhree three mortar batteries and killed 60 Germans Northwest of Stalingrad soviet I troops have inflicted a counterblow counterblow counter- counter blow low on the Germans One unit by y a vigorous attack dislodged the Germans from a populated place The he Germans left more than dead on the field We captured three guns two mortars and four machine guns Attacks Repulsed In another sector several enemy attacks were repulsed and about Germans were killed Other details were supplied by bythe bythe the he midnight Red Star said the German command command command com com- mand was trying to supplement its ts siege forces with a new column The direction of this advance was not specified Bombers fighter planes heavy artillery and tanks were reported employed by the red army in the counterattacks northwest of Sta- Sta ingrad The threat against the nazi flank as well as the heavy direct pressure was credited with forcing the Invaders to withdraw Red Star said that both the city and Volga river traffic were under under under un un- un- un der continuous air raids It reported reported re- re ported that a barge withdrawing refugees was smashed Boats Fight Furiously The Volga river flotilla was said saidy by y to be waging a furious fight ight convoying ships protecting Russian columns within the range of its guns sweeping up plane- plane laid aid mines and even sending landing landing land- land ing ng parties ashore Marines supported by the fire of two gunboats captured an axis axis- occupied settlement the newspaper newspaper newspaper per reported One flotilla unit was credited with extermination of two battalions fo Germans and Rumanians in two weeks of action German attacks were declared repelled both in the area of the upper Don basin and in the Terek valley of the Caucasus Red army men striking anew against the assault and supply columns columns columns col col- col- col moving upon Stalingrad from the northwest made ome a-ome some headway and wiped out more than 2000 German officers and men the soviet Information bureau said Russ Disregard Odds Apparently referring to a related related rented re re- re- re action the Moscow radio announced that soviet troops continue continue continue con to develop their successful offensive within the northwestern section of the steel center following following following follow follow- ing their recapture of a commanding command command- I ing height three days ago I Russian agencies stressed a so soviet soviet soviet so- so viet disregard for odds The soviet radio said red marines engaged 1000 Rumanian infantrymen and only of the enemy survived The information bureau reported that a Russian company attacking attacking attack attack- ing a numerically superior force captured several German blockhouses blockhouses block block- houses and annihilated 90 Hitler Hitler- ites Among reports of the Stalingrad Stalingrad Stalingrad Stalin Stalin- grad street fighting was a declaration declaration declaration decla decla- ration that a single soviet detachment detachment detachment detach detach- ment had repelled a dozen plane- plane supported attacks by German In infantry infantry in- in fantry and armored units strewing strewing strewing strew strew- ing the area before their ramparts with dead and the hulks of 42 tanks High Casualties In another sector in three days about 2000 German officers and men have been wiped out 44 tanks crippled or damaged and 18 guns 30 motor vehicles six mortar batteries batteries batteries bat bat- teries and 39 machine gun nests demolished in intensive fighting by infantry and artillery the said Shellfire of the Volga river flotilla flotilla flotilla flo flo- tilla was declared to have annihilated annihilated annihilated anni anni- at least two battalions of German and Rumanian soldiers and silenced eight enemy artillery batteries and three mortar bat bat- teries |