Evening star., 1941-09-21
Soviets Place Enemy
Losses in Bottle at
10000 Men
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW SUNDAY, Sept
21.-A savage life and death
struggle" is still raging about
Kiev, the Russians said today
The Germans have lost upward
of 100000 men and are hurting q
quarter of a million more OF
their best troops into the great
battle, Russian dispatches de-
clared.
The Red Army pledged itself tc
a laSt-ditch resistance to make the
Germans pay as dearly as possible
for this Ukrainian capital.-Russia' 's
third largest city-and for every
inch they advance beyond.
Russian advices from the Kiey
front said that bitter no-quartel
fighting sWirled back and forth ir
the northern suburbs of the city
while today's early morning COM
munique of the Soviet Information
Bureau, without giving details, said
fighting continued along the whole
western front and was particularly
fierce at Kiev."
10 Divisions Claimed.
All told, the Russians said the
Germans had lost 10 divisions in
this vast struggle with Is more Nazi
divisions pounding in endless waves
at the Red Army defenders
With the struggle about Kiev ap-
parently storming toward an immi-
nent climax, the Russians reported
victory in the far northern waters
of the Barents Seattle sinking
of a big Nazi transport by Soviet
warshipS.
Summing up the results of the
air war in the three-month-old con-
flict, today's communique said the
Germans had lost more than $500
planes. The Red Air Force, it added
continues to blast the LuftWaffe in
the air and on airdromes behind
the lines with panzer troops, infan-
try and artillery providing addi-
tional targets.
But despite the continuing fierce
tempo of the struggle from the Arc
tic to the Black Sea, the battle OF
Kiev provided the outstanding
action of the moment.
House. to- House Defense.
The Russians, who acknowledged
yesterday that the Germans had
reached the city's gates. seemed
ready to carry out previously an
nounced plans to yield Kiev only
after house-to-house defense.
The statement that fighting still
ragged in the northern suburbs was
broadcast over the Moscow radio.
The ferocity of the battle was
thus described in the Russian army's
official organ, the newspaper Red
Star:
The gunners of Kiev are fighting
the enemy until death. The Ger
mans shall pay dearly for the city
The Red Army is sparing no efforts
to inflict the greatest possible losses
upon the German hordes."
Yesterdays daily communique said
fighting went on through the night
along the entire front and was par
ticularly heavy at Kiev.'
Is Divisions Involved.
Into the assault the Germans were
reported to be throwing fully Is
divisions. including numerous panzer
units and great concentrations OF
aircraft.
All reports indicated the struggle
might continue, at least in the
vicinity, for days.
Before Odessa, important Soviet
Black Sea port encircled at the
southern end of the front, Is Ger
man planes were said to have been
destroyed by pilots of the Soviet
Black Sea fleet.
In the north, the Russian de-
tenders of Leningrad continued to
hold off German forces, according
to Russian reports, with planes of
the Baltic fleet shooting down 16
German aircraft. In addition ex-
tensive Russian guerrilla activity was
reported in the Leningrad area.
Slogans Adopted.
Dispatches from Leningrad said
the Red Army and Peoples Army
fighting in the approaches of the
city, had adopted as slogans:
mo step in retreat. Victorious
Russian troops once were in Ber-
lin, but no invader ever has set foot
in st. Petersburg; our enemies per-
ished on the approaches of Petro-
grad: they shall find their doom on
the approaches of Leningrad. These
three names of our city are three
eras of great glory unstained by de-
feat"
The determination of Leningrad's
defenders was declared to be re-
inforced by all the city's enormous
industrial machine. supplying. the
front with all needs-planes, tanks,
guns and munitions.
The Putilov works announced 1t
had launched mass production of
new type tank designed to check
and repulse the Nazi panzers.