Navy Blasts Jap Solomon Fleet in Huge Naval Victory

MOSCOW--The defenders of Stalingrad have smashed German wedges and re-sealed their lines after a two-day battle in which upwards of 1500 enemy troops were killed or wounded, the Soviet High Command announced today.

The Red Army wiped out 1500 additional German officers and men in boating off all enemy attempts to recapture a strategically important village on the Volkhov front. Soviet forces continued their advance southeast of Nalchik.