Evening star., 1941-10-22
Nozi Moscow Drive, Past Peak,
Boqqed Down in Snow and Mud:
Tide Turning, London Hears
Invaders Suffering
Enormous Losses,
Reds Report
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Adolf Hitler'S invasion armies
face the prospect of sitting in
winter bound trenches until
spring almost within sight of the
two great prizes that failed to
fall, Moscow and Leningrad, ac-
cording to advices reaching Lon
don today.
Declaring the 21-day German Of
fensive against Moscow already has
passed its peak and begged down in
snow mired, all but impossible roads.
a high-ranking neutral military au-
thority in London said the tide of
conflict has so turned that embas-
sizes which fled Moscow may shortly
return.
Nazi Losses Heavy.
Hitler, he said, has failed to
achieve the swift victory promised in
a speech October in which the
Fuehrer announced that the drive
on Moscow would be the last great,
decisive battle of this year"
The Nazi onslaught. this source
said, has now been definitely halted,
both around Moscow and in the
north around siege girt Leningrad.
Soviet dispatches pictured the
Germans as suffering enormous
losses on the Moscow front, with
literally every meter of ground
covered with the bodies of Fascist
soldiers and officers" in the Mozha-
isk sector. 81 miles west of the Rus
sian capital.
Undoubtedly Hitler will order
and carry out new attacks" the
source said, but he will not again
be able to muster anything like the
strength he has used up in the past
two weeks"
Concentration at Smolensk.
Other London advices. however,
said the Germans were concentrat-
ing great new forces at Smolensk
for an all-out frontal attack on the
U. S. S. r. capital
Premier Stain remained in the
Kremlin to direct the Red citadelS
defense, with the f1ercest action GEN.
tering around Mozhaisk.
TaSS the official Soviet news
agency, said the Germans hurled
tanks, motorized infantry and avi-
alton into the assault which de-
veloped into hand-to-hand fighting
The news agency said Marshal
Semeon TimoSchenko's Red troops
fell back to new lines only where the
Germans were able to concentrate
numerical superiority. The depth of
the withdrawal was not disclosed.
Donets Advance Claimed.
Hitler's field headquarters, silent
on any new advance in the oper-
ations before Moscow, declared that
Axis troops driving into the Donets
River industrial basin in the Ukraine
had scored further advances.
BY contrast, reports reaching Lon
don said Red Army troops had
stopped the German thrust toward
Rostov. gateway to the Caucasian
oil fields, after evacuating Tangan-
rog, 80 miles to the west.
A Russian broadcast said the Ger
mans had lost more than 5000 men
under tank-led Red Army attacks
southwest of Moscow-presumably
in the Maloyaroslavets sector, where
Nal spearheads have been reported
within so miles of the Kremlin.
Soviet reports also. told OF re-
newed German attempts to advance
east from Orel, with heavy fighting
raging along the Orel-Mtensk high
way. MtenSk is l6 miles southeast
of Moscow
Resistance Stiffening.
Soviet correspondents reported
that Russian resistance was stiffen-
ing steadily northwest of Moscow,
in the Kalinin sector, and that vio-
lent Red Army counterattacks had
smashed back a German attempt
to cross a river there.
In the Bryansk sector. 200 miles
south of Moscow, the high command
said mopping-up operations had led
to the capture of 5000 more prisoners
and 56 guns.
Dispatches from Kuibyshev, the
new wartime Soviet capital, said
columns of Red Army reserves were
moving west to enter the lines, while
eastward out of the danger zone
rolled women, children and the aged
The Soviet radio said that Moscow
itself hummed with defense prepara-
tions and that trenches, pillboXes
and other Notifications were hastily
going up in the wooded area just
outside the city.