The Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, Saturday Morning, September 12, 1942.
Russians Again Stem Mighty
Force Hurled on Stalingrad!
Reds Admit Novorossisk Fall
Retreat Cut Off '
At Volga Citadel
Stalin's Historic Order
0f Civil War Day
Again Invoked
Enemy Asserts River
Reached Above, Below
Slav Host Must Hold City
Or Die at Epic Climax
Of Vast Struggle
MOSCOW. Saturday, Sept. 12.
---(AP)— Russian troops defending
Stalingrad under a "fight to the
death" order were reported officially
today to have stopped
the Nazi tide In one of the
greatest struggles of history, but
the Red army of the Caucasus
has abandoned Novorossisk on
the Black sea coast.
Courageously holding their
ground under constant artillery and
live-bomber charges, the Red army
west and southwest of Stalingrad
beat off constant German infantry
charges, destroying 31 more Nazi
tanks and killing hundreds of the
enemy, the communique said.
Death at Russian hands was promised
for any Red exhibition of
cowardice in the epic struggle on
the western bank of the Volga.
First Halt in 4 Days
Ruhr City Left
Flaming Ruins
100,000 Incendiary Bombs
Shower on Dusseldorf,
Rhine Rail Point
LONDON, Sept. 11.—INS)—
Dusseldorf, left blazing lUqsia (illegible)furnace
after an estimated 600 to 700
British planes showered the western
German industrial city' with
more than 100,000 incendiary bombs
was digging itself out of smouldering
ruins tonight.
Carrying out the heaviest RAF
raid yet made on a moonless night,
the formidable force winged its
way across the channel under
cloak of darkness last night for
another in the devastating series
of around-the-clock smashes against
Nazi Germany and the occupied
countries.
31 Fall To Return
Bombers Fire
Jap Destroyer
Foe Has Made No Further
Gains Toward Moresby,
Communique Says
GEN. ' M' ARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Saturday. Australia,
Sept. 12.—W)—Allied bombers fired
a Japanese destroyer and left her
sinking off eastern New Guinea
and also blasted Buna, the enemy's
supply base for the overland drive
toward Port Moresby, a communique
said today.
"The enemy has made no further
advances." the communique said, in
the Efogi area, 44 miles short of
Port Moresby, where bayonet wielding
Australians were fighting
the invaders
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