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no larger than a battalion were re-
ported following the tanks. but were
said to have been stopped after ad-
vancing no more than 2 miles.
On other fronts fighting contin-
ued. In the Tikhvin sector. about
100 miles east of Leningrad, the
Russians were reported pressing
counterattacks against individual
German units. some of which were
reported annihilated.
The Red Army also continued
counterattacks in the region of
Volkhovo. 80 miles southeast Of
Leningrad on the main road to
Moscow. where several settlements
were reported retaken.
The Russians maintained the
initiative near the approaches to
Leningrad with the support of their
air force, which Russian dispatches
said had Wrested supremacy of the
air from the Germans.
Hold Fast Near Moscow.
1t was reported in London that
the hard-pressed Russian soldiers
are holding fast on the approaches
to Moscow against incessant attacks
launched by the Nazis.
Military observers declared that
the Germans had hurled into the big
push probably the largest concen-
tration of forces ever seen il mod
ern warfare"
An authority in London said the
German army apparently had been
ordered to drive to Moscow at all
! costs.
The Germans. "disregarding
losses, are necessarily launching
new attacks" reported the corre-
spondent of the Moscow paper Prav-
da. Fighting does not abate day
or night.
"Our troops are holding the line
and dealing heavy blows to the en-
emy.
In one sector alone the Fascists
lost 20 tanks and about one and
one half infantry battalions.'
In a 20-hour tank battle in the
VolokolamSk area, IS miles north
west of Moscow, the correspondent
said, Russian tanks fell back only
under pressure of numerically su-
perior forces and occupied a new
line on a highway over which the
Germans were trying to advance.
Four German divisions tabout
$4,000 mem we're reported thrown
against the Russian lines yesterday
in the Mozhaisk area.
THE Fascists are reSorting to the
usual tactics of pincer movement,
throwing into action large tank col
umns and infantry divisions.
Our troops ere fighting inces-
sanity, retreating to new lines, for
| tifying themselves. and checking
! the enemy with counterattacks."
Stops Flow of Oil
The capture of Rostov. industrial
center and communications huh
where the Don River flows into the
Sea of Azov, stops the direct flow
of Caucasian oil into Central Rus
sia. a military spokesman in Berlin
declared.
Baku and other Caspian Sea ports
still are available for the Russian
oil supply, but Germans said thai
was the longer way around and in.
adequate to meet urgent needs fol
oil in Moscow and the northern sec.
tors.
That, the Nazis said. was wha
their high command meant by call
ing Rostov, prize long and reso
lutely defended by the Red Army, o
utmost importance in further con
duct of the war.
British Equipment Flows In.
British equipment is flowing IL
steadily to bolster the Red Army
fight. The biggest shipment OF tn
war arrived recently at the ia
northern port of Archangel Of
schedule and without incident.
Russian escort vessels met the sup
ply shipment from England in tn
blustery Arctic Circle and convoye
it into port through gales and snow
Winter has closed in on the por
early this year and Ice Is every
where. Russians, using ice breakers