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...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...
...land thrust--the second in as many days--was attempted Tuesday by a small force which against struck futilely at the American western flank...
MOSCOW--Russian troops, wresting the initiative from the Germans in key sectors of the now wintry southern front, recaptured lost positions in Stalinarad yesterday and cut a now gash in the Nazi flank to the northwest, a Red Army communique said today...
...Exonians had the second period all to themselves, however, making two tallies to leave the Freshmen in the dust 12 to 7. Bill Peck, driving around Harvard's flank, made the first. Ernie Ransome piled through the Crimson center to score the second and turn the score in favor of Exeter. Both extra points failed...
Earlier reports acknowledging a deterioration in the Stalingrad front revealed that a German flank thrust some 100 miles to the south had peneirated the Kahmyk stoppes. It posed the potential threat of a drive against the left wing of the Stalingrad Army or a stab at Astrakhan, at the mouth of the Volga, less than 200 miles distant...