Curent Events October 5, 1942; STALINGRAD SIEGE SLOWLY TURNING/ JAPANESE FIGHT ON IN NEW GUINEA:

Helena Independent

HELENA, MONTANA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1942

Nazi Positions

In Peril

Fight Develops

Tide Is Turning Slowly in Favor of

Russians, at Stalingrad; Siege

Of Novorossisk Sees Hot Battling

By HENRY C. CASSIDY

Moscow. Monday, Oct. 5.—(AP)—The Russians held

their ground stubbornly against incessant German attacks

in the battered city of Stalingrad yesterday, a

communique said today, and maintained the initiative

northwest of the city, where the Red Army's advances

in the past few days were said to he threatening- the

entire German position. The communique neither claimed

advances for the Soviet forces nor acknowledged

withdrawals, but it appeared there was no let-up in the

intensity of the. fighting despite earlier Soviet dispatches

the Germans lacked reserves within the city.

Japanese in

Flight on

New Guinea

But Allies Have Not

Caught Up

With Main body

Gen. MacArthur's Head-

quarters Australia, Mon-

day October 5.—(AP)—Hard-

hitting Australian bush so1-

diers continued their ad-

vance alo"S the uphill trail

of the rugged Owen Stanley

mountains of New Guinea

yesterday to a point beyond

Efogi near the gap through

the mountain backbone, a

communique said today.