The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-01
Russians In Gigantic Battle With Germans
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 tank column was transformed into heap of metal.
 On that day, the squadron de- stroyed 27 tanks.
 All Are War Weary
 Many captured Germans, also soldiers, who came over to our side st. se that they are all extremely war-weary and fight under co . pulsion. The threat of execution that's what drives us to war; stated Johann V. The German people are wearied by war, starvation and suf- ferings. It did not want and does not want to fight Soviet Russia
 Soviet patriots exert every effort for the speedy execution of orders for the front. zabubox, a turner in one of Moscow's plants received an important task-urgently to turn out 100 cylinders, which according to the accepted norm required about 800 work hours. Zabuzov simulta- neously oprated two lathes and re. mained at the plant for five days until he accomplished his task. Quality of the work was excellent.
 There was heavy fighting also, the communique said, on the Dvinsk Baltic front and the luck Ukranian front.
 Elsewhere scouting activity and artillery duels were noted.
 In admitting that the Germans had made slight headway toward Murmansk, the communique said that they had been halted by Rus sian infantry and airplanes.
 ct was known that German troops had thrust past Minsk but their natural line of advance would be along the highway of Napoleon '' northeastward, toward Smolensk and Moscow. Mention of heavy fighting in the direction of Bob- ruisk" meant presumably that German trops were well within White Russia south of Minsk. Bob- ruisk is 150 miles north of Kiev, cap- ital of Ukrain.)
 Russian airplanes are bombing German mobile forces on the Dvinsk river front, the communique said and Russian planes were also active in the Slutsk and Luck areas.
 (Slutsk is about 70 miles west o1 Bobruisk, mentioned earlier, and about 70 miles south of Minsk)
 Tn the Minsk and Bobruisk direc- tions, the communique said, infan- try, tanks and airplanes fought throughout the night.
 The Germans were seeking to break eastward in that area, 1t was said.
 In the Rovno area east of Luck Russians counter attacked and halted a German tank advance, il was asserted.
 Stalin Heads Emergency
 In an earlier comrnunique the for nation had been announced of an emergency state defense committee headed by Premier Josef Stalin, to mobilize the entire force of the So- viet Unions 1so,000,000 people against Germany.
 In this communique the fall of Lwow on the Ukranian front had been admitted and 1t had been iIn- piled that the Germans were a con- siderable distance east of Luck on the same front.
 It was said that the. Russians had been compelled to abandon Lwow because of the appearance of Hun- garian troops who, with the Ger mans, threatened to outflank the Russian forces.
 The communique, said Russian troops had repulsed all German Finnish attacks along the Finnish Russian border and that feroctous fighting was in progress in the Murmansk sector along the Arctic coastal region. The Films and Ger mans were losing heavily, 1t was said.
 The communique reported the Germans trying to break through to the northeast in tho Dvinsk- Wilma region, opposing numerical superiority to the perseverance and maneuverahility of the Russians.
 In the Baranovichi-Milask region on this White Russian front Soviet troops are fighting stubbornly against superior German mobile forces, and halting their advance.
 Tn the Rovno district east of Luck. the communique said, the Russians repulsed German attacks and inflicted severe losses.
 German-Rumanian attempts to force a way across the river Pruth at the south end of the 1900 mile front were again repulsed, 1t was asserted.
 Two German submarines have been sunk In the Baltic and one has been sunk in the Black Sea, the communique said.
 It was indicated that the heaviest fighting was centered in the Minsk- BaranOvich and Luck-Rovno direc- tions.
 Tn both sectors. the communique implied, the Russians were holding well and exacting heavy sacrifices from German tank uuits l..z...a ~