Evening star., 1941-07-14
Our Turn Now Churchill Warns
Hitler Promising Greater Raids;
KievHeavi|y Bombedby Germans
Troops at City's
Gates, Nozis Say;
Fall Is Awaited
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July IA heavy air
attack on Kiev, capital of the
Russian Ukraine, was reported
today by D.N.B., official German
news agency, as the advance of
German, Hungarian and Ru-
manian forces menaced that key
city on the southern flank of the
eastern front.
Kiev under air harassment and
threat of direct ground attack, Len
ingrad squeezed from two sides in
the north and German tanks jab-
bing toward Moscow in the center
such were the broad outlines of the
war against Russia presented by in
formed German sources.
A rain of bombs fell destrictively
on warehouses and hangers in Kiev,
D.NB. said.
Although the German Army was
reported already at the gates OF Klev
and the nation waited eXpectantly to
hear that that gateway to the agri-
cultural and industrial riches of the
Ukraine had been entered. the high
command reverted to its laconic
mood.
Firms Open Attack.
Adolf Hitler's headquarters re-
ported that break through oper-
ations' against the Stain Line con-
tinued on schedule and that Finnish
froces had opened tWo-point at
tack on Leningrad's northern flank
but otherwise gave no details of the
battle on the vast line from the
Baltic to Black Sea.
The Berlin radio said today
that German units advancing to-
ward Leningrad gained additional
ground yesterday after overcom-
ing Soviet bunker positions and
scattering Soviet troops)
Finnish armed forces under the
supreme command of Field Marshal
Baron, Mannerheim started an at
tack on both sides of Lake Ladoga,
said the communique.
Two Russian patrol boats were
said by the high command to have
been sunk by German destroyers.
The communique did not say
where the patrol boats were sunk,
but the likeliest spot would be
the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea
approach to Leningrad.
Ieningrad, a center of Russian
war industries, lies at the head Of
the gulf, west of the lower end
of Lake Ladoga and about IS
miles from the nearest Finnish
border.
The frontal drive on Lenin-
grad, with the latest official To-
cation of Panzer forces given as
east of Lake Peipus. had ap-
preached to within $50 miles Of
the city. according to the Ger
mans. while. according to Fin
nish dispatches, one arm of the
northern offensive was at Narva.
Estonia, 80 miles from Lenin-
grad)
Advance Termed Relentless.
D.N.B said the Russians con.
| tinued yesterday to retreat from
their Stain Line Notifications ir
many sectors and that the dissolu.
ton of some Soviet divisions gained
| momentum.
In the sector facing Leningrad-
DNB reverted to the old Czarist
name of ST Petersburg-Germar
units won more terrain after re.
ducing bunker positions and scat.
tering Red troops. the agency says
North of the Pinsk marshes tn,
Germans were reported in a relent
less advance on broad front acros
the Dnepr and upper Dvina River!
after penetration of the Stain Line
Retreating Russians. D.N.B. said
repeatedly tried to offer resistance
in various places in the Vitebsl
region yesterday. That city. on tn,
Dvina. was said to have been ir
German hands since Friday. Tn,
Germans threw the Red Army ou
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