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...Nazis opened a new attack with an air bombardment. All of the Red Barricade plant, "a spectacle of utter chaos," was captured, said a German communiqué. The Spartakovka settlement near by, where factory workers had dwelt, also fell to the Germans. The Dzerzhinsky factory was plastered with tons of bombs. As the fighting surged into new parts of northern Stalingrad, the section of railway yards, oil tanks and huge warehouses, the Germans tried to mushroom north & south from captured positions. Russian flank attacks halted them...
Dispatches to Moscow newspapers reported more gains than setbacks. But the official communiqués were rigidly cautious, almost foreboding in their restraint as the battle entered its seventh week. Slowly, at terrible cost, the Germans were closing upon the center of gravity...
This morning enemy aircraft dropped bombs at several .places in southeastern and southern England, causing a number of casualties and some damage.-London Communiqué, Sept...
Casualties. Neither side detailed its casualties.* Russian communiqués told of wiping out detachments of 150 to 300 Germans, destroying a half-dozen tanks, infinitesimal losses in a battle involving more than a million men and great masses of war equipment. In fact, the communiqués from Moscow notably failed to bear out the non-military reports of mountainous German losses. Perhaps those who wrote the communiqués did not yet have an overall view; perhaps they were not ready to tell the full story...
Failure of a Courtship. "His Majesty's Government had hoped," the new communiqué intoned, "that the Governor General of Madagascar would allow the British command to take such steps as they considered necessary in order to deny to the Axis . . . facilities ... in the island." A report said the British, after their first attack, had attempted to woo French colonial administrators with honeyed words and attractive trade agreements. The British had also promised that pensions and salaries to all French officials would continue after the British took over. Renewed military operations were an admission that the courtship, tainted with...