The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-30
War

themselves estimated 1t more
than 100000 troops-presum-
ably including Germany's allies,
the Firms, Slovaks, Rumanians
and Hungarians.
After eight days of the great
est battle of the war, Soviet Rus
STA still was fighting west Of her
1889 frontiers. today, with one
possible exception = the impor-
tant Minsk area ut the head of a
vital highway leading to Mos
COW.
The official German news
agency, DNB, said Nazi Panzer
units had passed Minsk to reach
the motor road, but the Russians
said their forces had checked
and cut off the German motor
lied columns which skirted the
defenses of the White Russian
capital, 20 miles inside the old
Russian frontier,
BARRAGE OF CLAIMS
AS the second week of fighting
on the eastern front began amid
a barrage Of special German
high command announcements
detailing Nazi successes thus far,
Finland and Slovakia pitched In
actively against Russia at vari-
Gus points along the far-flung
front.
Cannon blazed all along the
6OO-mile Russian-Finnish from
tier as the Firms, needing an ap-
peal from Field Marshal Baron
Carl Gustaf Mannerheim to fol-
low him in q holy war" against
the Russians, cast off their policy
of passive resistance.
The Slovak high command de-
clared that the forces of the tiny
state, which is all Adolf Hitler
left on Czecho-Slovakia, had
driven deep into Soviet territory
tosseize prisoners and materfAE
The Russians conceded that
German troops had drive
through Lithuania q third OF the
way to Leningrad and across Po-
land almost a third Of the way
to Moscow but declared that
Nazi advance forces had been
trapped in counter-attacks.
CLAIM REDS TRAPPED
The German high command,
in one of q series of IL COM
muniques issued at intervals
over a four and a half hour Pc
riod yesterday, said two Russian
armies were trapped (Vichy
military sources estimated the
number of men involved at 400,-
OO0) in the Bialystok area before
Minsk.
The high command claimed
that 1888 Russian tanks, 4,1O7
Russian planes and 1927 Russian
armored cars had been destroyed
during the first week Of war;
that 10000 Russian prisoners
and 900 big guns had been cap
tured. All this at cost Of $50
German planes.
The Red Army called these
claims "boastful gumbug" and
gave its own figures: $500 Ger
man tanks destroyed to 900 Rus
sian, 1900 German planes de-
stroyed to $50 Russian; 10000
German prisoners taken to 49,
600 Russian.
New and great success is in
preparation" the German high
command declared.
ALLIES FORGE AHEAD
The Syrian campaign, entered
its fourth week with Allied
forces reported pushing toward
HONS as Vichy troops apparent
ly sought to hold the core OF the
Lebanon area from Beirut to
Tripoli.
The home Of General Henri
Dentz, Vichy commander in the
Levant, was reported. attacked
by British bombers and five
members of his guard were
killed and four wounded. The
general was not at home.
Bad weather halted the sus-
tanned British air offensive
aginst German invasion ports
and industrial areas Saturday
night after II successive nights
but the Raj got back on sched-
ule last night as soon as the
weather cleared.
The German said IS British
bombers were shot down last
night over northwestern Ger
many.
The British said one German
raider was shot down in light
nocturnal assaults on England.
In the respite granted by the
German attack on Russia, Eng
land indicated II hoped to make
hay. Lord Beaverbrook, minister
ter of state. was made minister
of supply with. wide responsible
ity for making war goods in all
Britain's factories.
The war also had repercus-
sions In the western hemisphere
as the .FBl arrested 20 persons,
including - natives Of Germany.
Il had shadowed for two years
on charges Of ssDionsse.