Current Events September 14, 1942; RUSSIANS REPEAL NAZI SURGE/ NAZIS STORM STALINGRAD/ WAR STRATEGY IS CHANGING:

                    Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1942

Russians Repel
New Nazi Surge
Von Bock Hurls Fresh Panzer Troops at
Volga Bastion Without Avail; Germans'
All-Out Assault Met by Bayonet ChargeBy EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, t Sept. 14.—(#)—Fresh hordes of Nazi troops
smashed today at the approaches to Stalingrad in an obvious
all-out effort to storm the city whatever the cost in blood,
but the Russians said that after yielding precious ground the
Red Army halted and pushed back a new penetration southwest
of the city. Both to the west and southwest the Germans
were pouring tanks and armored
cars and new reserves
into the struggle, but the midday
communique indicated the
Russians were holding.
Earlier the 'Russians had reported
the capture by the Germans of an
unidentified populated place
southwest of Stalingrad. From all
reports it was apparent that the
crucial test for the beleaguered city
was at hand.
SOVIET BAYONETS FLASH



       The Portsmouth Herald

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1942.

Nazis Storm Stalingrad
Regardless Of LossesMoscow, Sept. 14 (AP) — Fresh

hordes of Nazi troops smashed today
at the approaches to Stalingrad
in an obvious all-out effort to storm
the city whatever the cost in blood,
but the Russians said that after
yielding- precious ground the Red
army halted and pushed back a new
penetration southwest of the city.
Both to the west and southwest
the Germans were pouring tanks and
armored cars and new reserves Into
the bloody struggle, but the mid-day
communique indicated the Russians
were holding.
Earlier the Russians had reported
the capture by the Germans of an
unidentified "populated place"
southwest of Stalingrad.

Monday Evening, September 14, 1942.
Get your heart into your work, whatever
it may be, for work without heart is
dead,-—Ramsay MacDonald.
New Phase Of War
Currently the war is reaching that
phase where Axis aggression, depending
heretofore on dash and dispatch, is
resorting under compulsion to slow,
dragging attack. This is the present
outstanding feature of the conflict in
the European, African and Asiatic
campaigns. It is the barrier against
permanent progress to which Yamashita
has come—likewise von Bock and
Rommel.
Modern mechanization of military
power packed an illusion in the early
days of the war. It appeared to favor
the audacious offensive. The tank, the
plane, the motorized gun and the gasoline-
driven transport emphasized the
factor of mobility to the point that
advantage seemed on the side of the
strategist who struck quickly. The
strategist who was fooled by this illusion
put most reliance on machines and
least on manpower. A small force thoroughly

mechanized was rated by him
superior in attack to a numerous force
acting defensively.
Today after three years of this strategy
Hitler finds himself falling back
to the old tactics of massed advance. He.
is abandoning mechanized dash because
it no longer works. Von Bock is hammering
desperately in Southern Russia
because the day of sensational assault
belongs to the past. Rommel is frustrated
in Africa because impetuous
advance is no longer possible. Yamash-
ita is proceeding ponderously
because he found the headlong plunge
into the Solomons fatal.
The new phase of war is preliminary
to the exhaustion of Axis aggression
with the change of United Nations
from a deliberate defensive to a final
crushing offensive.