Evening star., 1941-10-05
Soviet Claims Fresh Successes
In Attacks Along Entire Front;
Trapped Army Is Saved by Fleet
Planes, Tonks, Men
UnIeushed in Full
Counterdrives
~ the Associated Press.

Bv the Associated Press.
Soviet forces were reported on
the offensive from one end of the
eastern front to the other today
and considerable successes were
claimed for the full-poWered
Russian counterattackS.
Striking with planes, tanks. and
manpoWer. the Red Army was as
serted in battlefront dispatches to
have mleashed full force counter
attacks from the Arctic to the Black
Sea. hurting back German. Finnish
and Rumanian troops and recaptur-
ing dozens of small communities.
The Russians reported in their
early morning communique that a
Dunkerque in the north had saved
large Red Army unit on the shores
of Lake Ladoga and that on an 18-
mile advance in four days had been
scored in the south.
The NaZis acknowledged strong
Russian counterattacks both in the
northern and southern sectors, but
said one in the Ukraine cost the
Red Army 300 tanks and those in
the Baltic area were repulsed.
German scouts reported the Rus
slams were massing every bit of
their remaining strength for a
counter offensive in the Ukraine.
but the Germans were silent on the
large-scale operations which their
high command said were in progress
In Russia.
Hastily Mobilizing.
German air observers, ground pa
trols and tank crews returning from
reconnaissance ahead of the Ger
man forces all were said to have de-
scribed the Russians as hastily mo-
bilizing their fullest strength.
The Russians credited the north
ern Red fleet with the sinking of
three German troop ships in the icv
waters of the Barents Sea and Red
Fleet. the navy organ. reported that
swarm of Soviet naval vessels saved
army forces which battled their way
free after As DAYS in Finnish trap
More than $4,000 Firms were said
to have been killed as the trapped
Red army of Col Bondarev smashed
through to the shore of the lake
northeast of Leningrad and en-
barked in a hail of artillery fire.
Red Fleet said Col. Bondarev's own
rear guard held off the f1ercely at
tacking Firms for three days while
the main Soviet force embarked on
vast feet of transports, monitors.
cutters and barges.
On the fourth day. Red Fleet said,
Russian warships took off the last
of the rear guard-saving thousands
of Red soldiers and adding strong
new forces to the circle of men and
guns guarding Leningrad.
Red Fleet also reported a violent
battle raging on the approaches to
Crimea, with the Axis attackers con-
centrating fresh forces and the
Soviet Black Sea fleet and air force
supporting the defending land
troops. The battle was said TO be
still going on.
30 Settlements Retaken.
Capture of 80 settlements and the
tnf1iction of 5000 casualties on the
Germans was reported from the
southwestern front.
Reporting recapture of the 30
communities. the government news
paper Izvestia said the Russians
defeated the Seventh and Eighth
Rumanian Infantry Regiments and
Fifth Cavalry Brigade in a fight in
which the Red air feet took part.
TaSs, Soviet news agency. declared
that on the far northern front two
regiments of German mountain
troops which entrenched along the
east bank of the LitSa River for an
offensive against the port of Muir
mansk had been driven back across
the river with 1900 dead and many
wounded.
Sailors of the Baltic Fleet were
reported by Tass to have carried
out another counterattack, spear
headed by massive tanks which
crushed German field guns, ma
chinegun nests. light tanks and
armored cars. driving the attackers
of Leningrad back across a river
2 Counterattacks in North.
The Germans acknowledged at
least one strong Russian counter
thrust on the southern front.
On the north. two Russian coun-
terattacks were said in Berlin also
to have been stopped. One, German
reports said, was an effort to land
troops on the Gulf of Finland shore
and was repulsed after three Rus
sian motor boats and two other
vessels were sunk.
The other WAS described as a
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