Sherbrooke daily record, 14 septembre 1942, lundi 14 septembre 1942

[" V §liprbrookp îdaUuJSrrorî» \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 Established 1897.THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATHER Fair and cooler.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1942.Forty-Sixth Year.NAZIS STILL HELD STALINGRAD OÜTSKIRTS Elastic Soviet Defence System Absorbs Attack After Three Weeks of Frightful Struggle, German Offensive Achieves Peak Ferocity \u2014 Russians Deny German Claims that Nazi Columns Have Entered City at Two Points\u2014Soviet Armies Strike on Northern Front.By The Canadian Press After three weeks of already frightful struggle on the immediate approaches to Stalingrad, main theatre of the world conflict, the German offensive achieved peak ferocity today against the elastic Russian defence and the Germans claimed two penetrations of the city itself.By Russian accounts, however, the battered capital of the Lower Volga region still flew her Red banners of battle, with the foe checked once more on the outskirts.The Germans said Stalingrad had been entered in both the Southern and Northwestern sections.The Southern penetration was first reported yesterday.*- PRIME MINISTER SEEKS MEANS OF CUTTING LIQUOR CONSUMPTION today.the Northwestern The latest German claim to- day said dominating heights in the Northwest of the city had been occupied.Typical of the repeated rectifications in the semi-circle of defence was the Russian announcement that precious ground had been yielded Southwest of Stalingrad but only until strength could be marshalled to stop and then blunt the new penetration.British.Canadian and Russian airmen flailed Germany from the West and the East during last night.A strong R.A.F.-R.C.A.F.force hammered anew at Bremen, important plane and submarine construction centre of Northeast Germany.A hint of the strength of the attack came in the British announcement that nineteen bombers are missing.It was the 100th raid on Bremen, Germany\u2019s second largest port.The attackers amounted to \u201ca very strong force\u201d\u2014a British phrase used in the past to mean hundreds of planes.Besides mass night attacks on Bremen and other objectives in Northwestern Germany and \u201cintruder patrols\u201d over Northern France, the R.A.F.executed dawn attacks with single planes in the same general area of Germany.The Russian objectives in Germany had not been identified but a German broadcast dispatch said the Russians also bombed Bucharest, Rumania\u2019s capital, and \u201cineffectively attacked\u201d the oil field section around Floesti, also in Rumania.The dispatch said it had been rumored that parachutists were landed in the Ploesti region, but added \u201cno confirmation of this report is forthcoming.\u201d The German suggestion that Russian saboteurs might have beeit landed in this rich oil region fitted Continued on page 2, column 3.Belleville, Ont., Sept.14.\u2014(