Page Six TA br Ore as Uneonguered Ruins This is how Stalingrad, with its imposing new public its factories and modern dwellings for the men who worked in them, appeared from the air, before Hitler’s armies laid siege to it. Today many of its fine buildings have been reduced to piles of rubble by incessant bombing and shelling, but from the ruins Stalingrad’s valiant defenders fight on, barring the way to the Caspian. : buildings, In The Caucasus ‘Every Ravine A. Fortress” WITH THE GUERRILLAS IN THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINSS kos UR detachment the mountains with the carts fol- lowing in our wake until the road makes it impossible for them to go further. Afterwards we transfer the cases with the mines and cartridges and the sacks with the rusks and cereals onto the pack horses and continue. On the second day the front line is behind us. Ahead stretch dense forests. Utter silence reigns all around. The sun seldom penetrates here, its beams ligting up only the forest glades and the tops of the trees. The front passes south of the forest, Fighting is in progress in the small villages on the elevation of the naked top. which can be seen from where we are standing. We move in single file. talking to each other in whispers. However, 10 Germans are in sight so far. They do not risk going into the forest and prefer keeping to inhabited points, In the wooded and mountainous terrain, every ravine can become an impregnable guerrilla fortress, a trap for the enemy; every turning in a road threatens a German with death; every stone overhanging the road needs only to be pushed to come hurtling down on the heads of the occupationists, The men 6perating in the mountains behind the front lines skilfully take advan- tage of every possiiblity- Swooping down suddenly they make the roads, along which the enemy brings up his provisions and ammunition, impassable. The Ger- mans carefully guard these roads with machine and tommy gunners. But the guerrillas creep up when the Germans least expect them, remove the sentinel, hurl grenades at the staff car, open fire on 4 transport and then disappear into the forest. Only recently the areas here were a hive of activity. Today there are no signs of life in the houses and streets, which are quiet and deso- Jate. They are quiet because every Soviet patriot capable of shoulder- ing arms and fighting the enemy has gone to the forests and joined the guerrilla detachments. ascends Stalingrad Streets Death Trap Fol Moscow Prepares For Hard Winter BECr the war, Moscow would have begun to don its festive cloak by this time of the year. Courtyards and parks would be trimmed, cars and buses gaily decorated with an- nouncements of forthcoming holiday sales and of theatrical performances. Clubs and palaces of culture would be at the height of their preparations for the November anniversary. Every Muscovite would be preparing for the holiday, and every- where the talk would center on gifts, new costumes, parties. This year it is not like this. Mus-@ covites are busy at the factories and mills, trying to produce more for the Red Army so that it may wear down the enemy even more before the winter sets in. This year’s presents are all for the men at the front. Moscow’s population is doing everything to minimize the hard- ships of the oncoming winter. Every map and woman is helping to store up supplies of fuel and food for the winter months. Fuel is the main problem, for loss of the Donets Basin and the great distance separating the capital from other coal centers, as well as the greater demands by industry, compel Moscow to produce its fuel elsewhere. So it is that in passing through the Moscow streets. squares and embarkments, you see firewood, stacks upon stacks everywhere. And near every stack is a small group of people carting it away home. It is no exaggeration to say that every single Muscovite is do- ing his bit in the unloading and transporting of this precious tim- ber. LONG Gorky Street I saw rows of specially built cargo buses piled up with wood. At one house, three women were unloading it into MOSCOW. the sidewalk. Soon they were joined by a group of children of 12 to 14 years old, who helped them finish the job in record time. While I stood there the bus was unloaced and cleaned and was off in less than a quarter of an hour. This scene is typical of Moscow and such activity is going on in all parts of the Soviet capital. Everyone is busy. Every square is the scene of bustling activity, for everyone is eager to stock im more food and more fuel.. The Moscow populace procures its timber in the forests surround- ing the city, More and quicker is the slogan of these men and women. They are typical city dwellers and most of them are women who are now undertaking work to which they are little accustomed. But what seemed impossible yesterday is today feasible, and the firewood is rushed to city along the railways, roads and rivers. Every day brings fresh reports of plans that have been over-fulfilled. One brigade in the Rostokino dis- trict, consisting of office workers, fulfilled its quota in 42 days, instead of 100; nor was it the only one to do so. Moscow citizens work like well-trained teams in the forest, factory and on the farm, supplying their city with fuel for tke winter. As a result, Moscow industry will be able to continue without a break in supplying the army with every- October 21, 1] 4 | Nazi Tanks MOSCOW. © | eee of the street fighting in Stalingrad, where eve1 house is a pillbox and every yard of thoroughfare an anti-tan trap, shows that large tank forces and heavy tanks in particul: are not at all the suitable weapons for this kind of warfare. The~ use on a large scale is, as the Germans are learning to their cos to invite heavy losses in equipment. ; The exploits of a group of anti-tank rifle men who held off a} attack by 60 enemy tanks is now the talk of the Stalingrad ga” rison. The meh were occupying positions covering a street, whe'} the Germans attacked with their 60 machines. According to 24 textbooks, the avalanche of armor ought to have overwhelmed tt handful of men in the space of a few seconds. The Red Army me> thought differently. \ They succeeded in disbanding the leading tank and the machi bringing up the rear. Hemmed in on a narrow street and depriv<: of practically all abilities to maneuver, the enemy tank colun™ could do little more than blaze away with their guns at the walls the already shattered buildings. Then, having lost too much tim? they came under heavy fire from reinforcements, who had come ce the aid of the anti-tank rifle crews and finally the enemy tank cc umn retired, leaving six disabled machines on the scene of actio In the streets, therefore, the enemy’s armor is in use on a Tr) stricted scale. Fighting at close quarters interferes not only wil} the large scale use of aircraft, but also with that of tanks, since th streets are not the ideal fank terrain of the wide, rolling stepp Understhe conditions imposed by street fighting the Soviet troo: are using light and medium tanks, which are operating in sm