Evening star., 1941-07-07
Bucovino Capital
Is Captured,
Reich Says
2, the Associated Press.

BERLIN, July THE Germans
asserted today they had broken
the Stain Line, Soviet Russia s
main Notifications against in
vaSion from the west, and the
Axis forces captured Cernauti,
capital of Sovietized Bucovina.
The claim that the Stain Line,
stretching along Western Russia
from the Black Sea to the Gulf OF
Finland, had been broken was made
bv DN.B., official German news
agency, and it followed German re-
ports that Adolf Hitler's legions
were jockeying for positions with
Soviet elite troops for what Berlin
hinted possibly would be another
vast battle to smash Soviet resist
snce.
The High Commands war report,
however, did not mention the Stain
Line.
The war bulletin from Hitler s
Headquarters focused attention on
reported gains in Bucovina and
Bessarabia. provinces wrested from
Rumania by the Soviet Union a year
ago
Claim Upper Dnestr Reached.
German forces IN Bes-
sarabia are in progressive advance
efter repulsing Red Army counter
attacks, the communique said.
BY reaching Cernauti, beyond the
Carpathians in Northern Bucovlna
lust across the frontier from Russia
proper. the communique said Axis
forces had reached the upper Dnestr
River.
This, on the heels of a report that
German panzer units are in the
White Russian capital of MinSk, Ger
man claims outline Red Army re-
treats we'll into Russia proper in
the north and to the eastern fringes
of Soviet buffer territory in the
south.
Just north of the latter front. in
the Galicia area, the high command
said German forces were pursuing
the Russians on a broad sector
across the Seret River, east OF Ger
man-captured Lwow and almost at
the border of the Russian Ukraine.
North of the Plnsk swamps, 1t
added. German forces are pressing
forward toward the Dnepr and
upper Dvina Rivers, and in the
northernmost battle areas opera
tions of German and Finnish troops
continue on schedule
Hole in Line Net Located.
Without locating the hole it said
had been punched in the Stain
Line, D.N.B. reported German forces
still advancing from the Volhynia
area, west of the Ukraine capital
of Kiev.
Russian forces. it said. failed to
hold strongly armed modern case
mates after Red Army guard
units had been crushed.
"a German radio broadcast,
heard in New York by c. B. S,
said merely the Stain Line had
been pierced. The defense sys-
tenn, similar to Frances Maginot
Line, is reputed to be rs miles
deep in places The Germans
reported reaching the line last
Friday
c'Near the fortification sys-
tenn of the Stain Line" said the
broadcast, German troops have
started TO attack the bunker line
after successfully defeating Soviet
rear-guard forces
CSeveral strongly fortified
bunkers we're captured and the
Stain Line was pierced at several
places. The German troops con-
tinue their advance.')
Luftwaffe Pounds Russians.
Sweeps by the German air force
supporting the German ground
troops were said by the high COM
nand again to have destroyed large
numbers of Russian tanks and
trucks, trains, transport, roads and
munitions dumps. to have silenced
artillery batteries and to have
pounded Notifications and troop
renterS yesterday.
Red Army forces suffered Luft-
waite blows in the Smolensk region
east of Minsk, on the Rybachi
Peninsula in far northern Finland
and east of Lake Peipus on the
Estonian- Russian frontier, the COM
munique said.
It listed Russian air losses for
Sunday at 204 planes at a cost
of 10 German planes.
Three of the Russian planes
downed, it said, were bagged by
minesWeepers in the eastern Baltic
which warded off seven air raids
and damaged one of four Russian
(See BERLIN, Page A-4)