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.