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AT STALINCRAD.
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NO MAJOR CHANGE.
FACTORIES BATTLE.
NAZI NORTH-WEST FAILURE
LONDON, Oct 25.-No important
changes appear to have taken place
in the situation at Stalingrad over
the week-end, though both sides
claim successes.
This morning's Moscow communi
que stated: "The Russians, tackling
German infantry who yesterday
broke through to the outskirts of a
factory in the Stalingrad area,
custed them from the positions they
captured and flung them back. A
battalion of Germans attempted to
attack Russian defence centres in
another Stalingrad sector. The Rus
sians allowed them to approach to
close range and then opened up and
wiped out a company of Germans.
"Russian units south of Stalingrad
penetrated the Axis lines and wiped
cut 120 Germans and captured 6
machine-guns. 2 anti-tank guns and I
other booty. German tanks and in-,
fantry attacked north-west of Stal
ingrad to regain positions they had
lost. The greater part of the at
tacking force perished long before
it could approach the height which
it hoped to capture. Four hundred
Germans were killed and 5 tanks
destroyed."
Today's Berlin communique
claimed: "The Germans at Stalin
grad captured after stubborn hand
to-hand fighting all the remaining
Red October factory installations
with the exception of 1 halL We
also captured with the exception of
a few houses the northern suburbs
of Spartakova and numerous built
up positions and blocks of houses.
We have now cleared the enemy
remnants out of the factory area
captured on the previous day."
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Nazi Transports Sunk.
Last night's Moscow communique
was as follows: "The Germans in the
factory district of Stalingrad con
centrated 2 divisions supported by 80
tanks. The Russians repelled all at
tacks and retained 'their positions.
Only a small enemy force established
a hold in 1 section of a factory. The
Russians in a sector north-west of
Stalingrad advanced somewhat. A
Russian unit in 2 days' fighting
killed 7,000 of the enemy. Russian
warshin in the Baltic Sea sank 2
transports totalling 16,000 tons& We
also sank 1 transport in the Black
Sea."
Yesterday morning's communique
stated: "Our warships in the Baltic
pank a 10,000-ton German transport.
Our troops in the Stalingrad area
repulsed all attacks and destroyed
11 tanks, 13 lorries, 2 artillery posts
and ,13 pillboxes and wiped out a
company of Infantry. A group of
German tommy-gunners penetrated
to the outskirts of 1 factory. The
group was entirely wiped out. Rus
sian trench-mortar men carried out
a raid and disabled or burnt out 5
tanks and wiped out 200 Germans.
A Russian unit north-west of Stalin
grad -broke into a fortified zone,
killed 250 of the enemy and captured
3 guns and 6 machine-gums. Rus
sians in another sector repulsed a
counter-attack, killed 400 Rumanians
and captured booty and prisoners."
The Berlin radio claimed yesterday
that 24 of Stalingrad's 26 city dis
tricts. were now firmly in' German
hands.
Yesterday's Berlin communique
stated: "Our infantry and tanks in
the. Stalingrad area threw back the
enemy from various streets, captured
the major part of the Red October
factory and penetrated to the Volga.
Weak Russian attacks north of
Stalingrad failed."
A Berlin spokesman has admitted
for the first time that the Italians,
several hundred thousand strong,
have borne the brunt of the fighting
against the Russian relief forces in
the Don sector north-west of Stalin
grad. "The number of wooden
crosses show that the Italians justi
fled the German confidence," the
spokesman added. "Their losses hay
been grievous."
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