The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-24

fense lines as fierce battles contin- ued for Kharkov, Rostov and the Crimea, but that Red army counter attacks had pushed the Nazis back beyond their original positions with hundreds of dead left on the field.
 Furious fighting was reported on the approaches to the Crimea where the agency said that one important height was captured and recaptured eight times, with thousands of Ger mans killed and the Russians beat" ing off weakened enemy attacks Several "weak spots" in the German lines were found and Russian stabs through these sectors caused heavy German losses, the agency added.
 GA British Broadcasting report said that the Germans had lost l0,- 900 men in three days fighting at the entrance to the Crimea). (The Germans said they continued to advance in the Ukraine but that heavy rain and mud hampered the operations.)
 Moscow front-The Germans at- tempted new attacks on the west and south approaches to the capital but the Soviet advices said that all thrustS had been repulsed.
 Weather Hurts NaxlS
 (derman sources said that severe winter weather was interfering with operations on the Moscow front, where they had claimed to be within 37 miles of the capital on the south- west and 50 miles on the west).
 Northern Central front-'The Rus- sian newspaper Pravda reported that German troops driving into the front between Moscow and Lenill" grad had made some advances in the Kalinin sector, 100 miles north- west of the capital, but had been driven back to their initial positions with heavy losses after attempting an encirclement maneuver.
 "The enemy repeatedly tried to drive northwestward, particularly in the Lake linen region" Pravda said in regard to the north central front where the German plan has been to clean up Russian pockets of resistance and sweep eastward hTOuNu MOSCOW'
 stubborn fighting developed but the enemy's plan failed. The Ger mans were driven back to their irl- itial positions with heavy losses. They had infiltrated between our Qualifications but met heavy fire from our artillery that demoralized the Germans, who, threw away their weapons and fled before our infantry counter r-attack.
 "One enemy battalion attempted to enter q village but our artillery opened fire on Q half-mile long column and killed most of the Ger man troops. The enemy also was driven from the village of Khol- my"
 A Russian news agency dispatch said that during the fighting on the southern front assistant political commissar Bogursky, standing on a tank, killed 20 enemy soldiers and one officer" while Guerrillas wiped out three German tanks with bot- ties of gasoline.
 Moscow Still Tn Peril
 The Soviet Press continued to emphasize that Moscow was in peril, but asserted that 1t would be defended foot by foot in street fighting if necessary.
 We must be prepared to see the streets of Moscow become the scene of violent fighting" Pravda said. Every street corner must be forti- fled, every window must be 8 firing post, every citizen Q soldier.
 Moscow is one large military camp to trap thousands of Ger mans.
 'The enemy is advancing in bat ties that are assuming scale pre- viously unknown in war. Now our whole industry must switch to war production. We must work without rest; without sleep. We must achieve 200 per cent production"
 Moscow disclosed that Marshal Semyon .Timoshenko, until recently in command of the central front had been sent to the south to re- place Marshal Semyon Budenny and stop the German drive on Ros- tov,
 It was disclosed ttsat Marshal Klementi VoroshIlOv had been Ss. placed on the Leningrad front and that he and Budenny were organ izing new Russian armies. a0