Evening star., 1941-11-11
Nazis Reported
|mperi|ing Aid
Route 10 Soviet
New German Thrust in
Moscow Area Halted,
Russians Claim
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
German troops driving east OF
Leningrad were reported threat
ening 70 cut off the Arctic as
route Of Soviet supplies from
the United States and Great
Britain today, while on the CEN
tral front, official Russian dis
patches said large Nazi forces
had been trapped near Voloko-
lamsk, IS miles northwest Of
Moscow
The Soviet radio also reported
that MoscoW's Red Army defenders
had thrown back a renewed attempt
by the Germans TO batter their way
through Russian lines in the Malo-
rayoslavets sector, S. miles south
west Of the U. S. S r. capital.
The radio said that in the last
three days, Red troops under Comdr.
Golubov and Soviet warplanes had
destroyed 406 German tanks around
Maloyaroslavets
The Germans we're reported NOV
ing heavy relnforcements TO tbs
Volokolamsk sector, apparently in
an attempt to rescue Nazi troops
encircled there.
Supply Lines Imperiled.
As pictured by a Berlin military
spokesman, German forces advanc-
ing in Karelia we're imperiling sup
ply lines both from the ice-free Arc
tic port Of Murmansk and the White
Sea port of Archaneel.
Na1 strategists said the German
armies we're steadily progressing
toward their obJectlves.
Presumably, however, they we're
hundreds of miles away from Arch
angel itself. with a long, hard trek
over the frigid northland still ahead
before they would be IN position to
ISOLATE that port.
Official Soviet sdvices said Ger
man troops captured recently IN the
4O-day-old battle before Moscow
showed signs OF utter exhaustion.
Nazis Claim Crimean Gains.
In the Crlmea. a bulletin from
Adolf Hitler's field headquarters said
German and Rumanian troops were
continuing TO advance against the
great Black Sea naval base of Sevas-
topol and the port Of Kerch, gate
way to the Caucasus.
Details of the new gains were not
given. Previous reports had placed
the Germans about 20 miles from
Sevastopol and slightly farther away
from Kerch, with the Russians
fercely defending both points.
Besides the big German contigent
-eported trapped near Volokolamsk-
victims of the same encirclement
tactics exploited against Red Army
troops-the Russians said major
Soviet counterattack had been
| launched in the Serpukhov sector.
/ 65 miles south of Moscow against
German panzer units attempting to
break the central defense arc.
Force Declared Annihilated.
Reuters. the British news agency.
declared German forces trying 10
cross the River Okla there had been
annihilated.
Violent all-night fighting was also
reported in the Tula sector. 100
miles south of the U. S. s. r. capital.
with Soviet troops holding their
ground against repeated Nszi tank
assaults in the southern suburbs of
The town.
"A large group of prisoners cap
tured in the last few days on the
western moscow front gave evi-
dence during questioning of
further moral and physical de-
terioration of German troops" a
Soviet communique said.
"All prisoners looked exhausted"
Russian reports said the defenders
Of Leningrad were holding fast
against $4,000 fresh Nazi troops
striking from Karelian territory won
by their Finnish allies.
Hitler's high command asserted
that German and Finnish troops had
destroyed large parts of Soviet di-
vision, captured 700 pillboxes and
taken 1000 prisoners in Northern
I Karelia.
Tikhvins Capture Reported.
The Nazi high command yesterday
reported the capture of Tikhvin, ITO
miles southeast of Leningrad, in a
drive north from the Novgorod sec
tor to join forces with the Firms and
thereby completely isolate Leningrad
by blocking off the last open route
TO the eastward.
The British radio quoted Moscow
| broadcast statement that three Ger
man generals had been killed in the
Lenirgrad area, "one of them by
guerrlllas.'
Germans emphasized German
high command account of the cap
| ture of Tikhvin as a blow at the
| Soviet war economy, as we'll as clos
ing a breach in the Leningrad siege
lines.
The city is railroad, highway and
waterway center and a shipping
| point for bauxite, from which alum
mum is produced.
May Seek to Divert Bauxite.
! 1t was indicated that Germany
might seek to divert the bauxite to
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