Friday, July 30, 2010

Current Events July 30, 1942; STALIN ORDERS RED SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS TO FIGHT TO THE DEATH:



                         Oakland Tribune
            OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1942
Stop Retreat; Stalin Orders;
Saarbrucken Set Afire by RAF.
Germans Reported to Have
Landed on Taman Peninsula
In New Push Into Caucasus
MOSCOW. July 30.—(UP)—Premier Joseph Stalin ordered
the Red Army to halt its retreat today.
The, Army newspaper Red Star reported that Stalin had
ordered every soldier and officer to "stand and fight to the
death."
"Not one step back," Red Star quoted Stalin. "The execution
this task means the preservation of our country, the
destruction of the hated enemy
and a guarantee of victory."
LONDON, July 30.—(/P)—Reuters
said it had recorded a Vichy broadcast
in which the Vichy news agency
reported that German forces from
the Kerch Peninsula landed at
dawn today on the Taman Peninsula
of the Caucasus.
(The Taman Peninsula is separated
by the narrow Kerch Strait
from the Kerch Peninsula, the easternmost
extension of the Crimea. A
German l a n d i n g there would
gravely menace the flank and rear
of the Russian forces trying to
stem the Nazi drive southward from
Rostov.)
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, July 3Q.—(AP)—
Reinforced by divisions which the
Russians said were drawn from Finland
and France, Field Marshal
Fedor Von Bock's southern front
onslaught rolled deeper into the
Caucasus south of Rostov today and
pressed the Red Army back toward
the tip of the Don bend within 80
miles of Stalingrad.
Premier Joseph Stalin, for whom
the big town on the Volga was renamed
after the Russian revolution,
appealed directly to his Army to
lake inspiration from Russia's greatest
military heroes commanded
and defeated the Tartars, beat back
the Swedes, the Turks and the Teutonic
knights, and drove Napoleon
from Moscow.
'WE CANNOT RETREAT
The Communist Party newspaper
Pravda declared "it is necessary to
understand that we cannot retreat."
The Russians reported slashing
back fiercely at new German crossings
of the lower Don. and dispatches
which told of a stiffening
defense indicated that Marshal
Semeon Timoshenko was moving
reserves into the line.

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