Evening star., 1941-08-10
Nazi A,mies Checked
Say Reds; Claiming
New Toll Of $4,000
Baltic Fleet Reported
Helping Smash Enemy
Troop Concentrations
By the Associated Press.

DIV the ASSOCIdltu HIcSS,
MOSCOW, Aug. 10 Sunday -
Fierce-fighting Red Army troops
are holding the Germans firm in
the same battle-torn areas where
they have stood for several days
past, the Soviet government an
nounced today as the army news
paper reported the cutting up Of
10 new Nazi divisions with a toll of
$4,000 invaders slain or wounded.
The zones of gigantic conflict
along the 1,200-mile front were
placed in the familiar Kakisalmi,
Smolensk, Korosten and Bel Tser-
kov directions, WITH engagements
of a reconnaissance nature else
where.
(Ofncial German reports told
of new Nazi drives in the
Ukraine and called the position
of the Russian armies untenable.
With the wiping out of an en-
circled unit at Roslavl, south
of Smolensk, the German count
of prisoners mounted to l.
36,000.)
Troop Concentrations Smashed.
In the coastal region of the Es-
tonian front the big guns of the
Soviet Baltic fleet were reported
to have turned shoreward, smash
ing big German troops concentra-
tions and relieving a threatened
Red Army unit.
An account of this action. in a
dispatch to Red Fleet, organ of the
navy. said this teamwork between
the army and navy resulted from
a hurried call for aid from the hard
pressed Soviet troops. Without re-
gard to the danger of Nazi shore
batteries, it added that the warships
steamed up to the shore line to fire
deadly salvos.
Elsewhere in the Baltic, the Of
fetal war bulletin said the Red
Fleet sank an enemy torpedo boat
and damaged two others along with
some transports.
The Red Air Force, credited in a
special Tass announcement with its
second consecutive night lombard :
ment of Berlin Friday night, struck
at airdromes, German panzers and
infantrymen throughout Saturday.
the communique said.
Moscow Raided Again.
The Germans in turn again raided
Moscow last night, dropping some
incendiaries and explosives which
caused casualties, but eight of the
bombers were declared shot down.
Several fires which broke out in
dwellings were extinguished quickly,
Tass reported. 1t credited anti-air-
craft and night fighters with dispers-
ing most of the raiders, so that only
individual planes got through to the
Capital.
The attack, after two raidless
nights, kept Moscow under an alert
from 1890 pm. until los am.
Concerning the smashing of the
10 German divisions, Red Star, the
Red Army organ, said six enemy
tank divisions and four of the
slower moving infantry units were
routed.
Losses Are Detailed.
The Red Star report, which was
declared to have been based on
intercepted messages from the Ger
man sanitary service, gave the
losses as follows:
Forty per cent of the 18th, 18th,
14th and 18th Tank Divisions and
of the Seth, 297th and 299th Infan-
try Divisions.
Thirty per cent of the 7th Tank
Division
Twenty per cent of the 111th In
fantry Division.
Tremendous" losses in the 18th
Tank Division.
Figuring $1,000 men to the in
fantry divisions and $4,000 to the
tank divisions, and using so per
cent for the tremendous" losses in
the 18th Tank Division, the re-
ported German losses would be ap-
proximately $4,000 men.