Evening star., 1941-08-14
.GermansRouted
0verWideArea,
Moscow Claims
Odessa and NikoIuev
Have Been EncircIed,
Berlin Counters
By HENRY G.. CASSIDY,


Associated Press War Correspondent.
MOSCOW, Aug. 1.-THE Russian
Army reported today that the Ger
man 39th Tank Corps, IL other divi-
Sions and 13 regiments have been
routed on the western and SOUTH
western sectors of the front and that
the situation again had become
stable and quiet.
The army newspaper, Red Star,
estimated that 81 other German di-
visions had suffered more than so
per cent losses.
This list, it added, does not in
clude many divisions destroyed in
the northern and northwestern
Bessarabian directions"
In Berlin, the German high
command announced that Odes-
sa, Russian port on the Black
Sea, had been encircled by Ru-
manian forces in collaboration
with the drive of German, italian
and Hungarian troops in the
Southern Ukraine. Nikolaev.
near Odessa, also was reported
ringed.
The high command also an.
nounced occupation of the i'm
portant mining center OF Krivoi
Rog, in the southern Dnieper
baSin.)
Offensive Declared Smashed.
The Red Army's report followed
one by Pravda, the Communist party
organ, which recapitulated German
losses since early in the campaign
and said the German offensive was
being smashed.
Russian war dispatches indicated
that fighting again was developing
into isolated actions and that Ger
man armies which spurted yesterday
in the areas of Kakisalmi. Staraya,
RusSa, Smolensk and Bel Tserkov
again have been halted.
Behind the modest Soviet re-
ports" said Pravda, lie great and
serious events.
No important changes occurred
in the disposition of troops because
the German offensive is being
smashed by the mighty resistance of
the Red Army, exhausting the Ger
man forces.
simultaneously, however, very
important changes are taking place
in the composition of the German
Army.
In the western direction, many
German divisions already have been
annihilated and only countless
graves recall the existence of these
divisions. Dozens of other divisions.
/, after several battles with the Red
Army, have lost nearly half, and
others more than half of their
makeup"
The newspaper went on TO detail
German units which, it said, have
felt the full strength of Soviet
arms" and have left the old Ma
poleonic road Strewn with the
corpses of tens of thousands of Ger
man soldiers"
Germany's best divisions either
have been destroyed or ARE losing
blood" Pravda declared, and the
German Army is throwing into battle
new reserves after taking smashed
| divisions to the rear, reforming
them and sending them back to the
fighting fronts.
THE German Army still is pow
erful." it conceded, but the myth
of the invincibility of German arms
is crushed once and forever"
Air and Land Cooperation.
The Soviet Information Bureaus
communique, again reporting moth
ing of importance occurred" during
the night, avoided mention of fight
ing sectors and said only that the
Red air force was cooperating with
land troops in attempts to halt the
Nazis.
Earlier information indicated So
Wet forces were fighting to stop a
German threat to the Moscow
Leningrad railroad. A communique
said some Nazis had reached the
area of Staraya Russa, 80 miles from
the rail line and 140 miles south
east of Leningrad.
Russian artillery, resorting to a
high degree of camouflage, was still
pictured as taking a tremendous toll
(See RUSSIANS, Page A-4)