Evening star., 1941-11-19
Trapped Nazis
Are Crushed,
Reds Claim
Germans Announce
Opening Of Vast
New Offensive
BY tte Associated Press.

BY ire Associated Press.
Russla's Ukraine armies were re-
ported today TO have inflicted a
crushing defeat on German troops
caught III trap near Novocher-
kassk, Is miles northeast Of RostOv-
on-Don, while the German high
command declared that AXIS inva-
sion forces had opened new big
scale offensive.
Tass, the official Soviet news
agency. said the Germans lost thou.
sands Of men. Is tanks. 273 trucks
and many guns in the Novocher-
kassk battle. The Nazl drive in
that sector has been stopped, Tas5
added.
Lunging Forward Again.
A German communique pictured
the NaZl armies as lunglng forward
once more, executing new and sue
cessful" attacks, but the Russians
said they had smashed attempts 10
pierce Soviet lines on the north
anchor of the 20O-mile Mocov de-
fense arc as well as in the Ukraine.
A Nazi military spokesman said
German bombers raked both Mos
COW and Leningrad during the night
and left spreading fires in the Red
capital.
A bulletin from the Fuehrer's
headquarters reported that 10000
Russian prisoners had been captured
and III tanks DESTROYED during the
past three days. but it gave no de-
tails Of the new push.
Reds Claim Nazis Repulsed.
Soviet front-line dispatches said
/ two German infantry regiments,
/ supported by tanks and armored
cars had been driven off with bloody
( losses in repeated attempts TO storm
across the upper Volga River in
/ the Kalinln sector, 95 miles north Of
Moscow. and the Red Army COM
mand gave this general summary ot
the nearly five-month-old struggle:
Our troops are beating off the
enemy attacks and destroying equip
ment and annihilating the man
power of the Germans.
On the southern Ukraine front
the Russians said Marshal Semeon
Timoshenkos forces had recaptured
number Of villages and advanced
from TO y mlles-presumably IN
the fiercely contested battle sector
around RoStov-on-Don
Soviet accounts declared that
Field Marshal Won Kleist's southern
armies were suffering severe casual
ties in attempts 10 make ''raplc
gains in the Donets River Basin.
SevastopOl Attacked.
In the Crimea campaign the Ger
man high command said NaZl bomb
ers violently attacked Russia's great
Black Sea naval base at SevaStopol,
blasting docks. munitions dumps
and a ship in the harbor. but there
was still no indication of direct
land assault against the stronghold.
The British radio said Russian
troops in the Kerch sector had been
safely evacuated to the Caucasus,
along with their complete equipment
and war material"
Officially, Russia mas not yet rec-
ognized the German claim to the
capture of Kerch. but the Moscow
radio acknowledged that Axis invs =
sion forces. estimated at o0.0o0
troops. had cracked Kerch's defenses
at a cost of colossal losses
DELAYED reports from Moscow 70
Kuibvshey indicated that SubUavS,
streetcars and taXlcabs in the Rus
sian capital had resumed operations
and the rate of civilian Withdrawals
from the city had fallen of since
the big German drive on the capital
was checked
Many who left me city carer
were reported to nave returned.
Moscov's food supplies we're de-
scribed as adequate.