Evening star., 1941-11-06
Stain Makes Plea for New Front;
Places Nail Losses at a. 100000;
Red Gains in 7 Sectors Reported
Germans Declared
Yielding Goals
For Winter
By the Associated Press.

Adolf Hitler's boast that Ger
man victory would attend the
drive on Moscow in the last
great, decisive battle Of this year"
has been exploded by tenacious
Soviet resistance, informed Lon
don quarters said today. declar-
ing that the fuehrer has now
abandoned hope of capturing
either Moscow or Leningrad this
winter.
On the fighting front masses of
Russian reserves were reported to
have broken through Nazi siege
lines before the U. S. S. r. capital,
while on the southern ,Ukraine)
front, Soviet dispatches said. the
Germans were retreating from a
corpse-strewn zone of the Donets
River Basin.
London said the German air force
was Withdrawing most Of its planes
from the Moscow. Leningrad and
Far North fronts. leaving land forces
to carry on 4 defensive" winter
campaign.
Tass. the ofnciaI Soviet news
agency. said the Germans had fal-
len back with heavv losses at several
points around Moscow
Series Of Soviet Attacks,
There was no immediate indica-
ton whether the Russians had
launched a ma jor counterofYensive
but Tass reported that Red cavalry
and infantry haG made 4 series of
attacks and that German forces
at point identified only as XII"
had been encircled.
"On the left flank of the west
ern moscow front, the Red Army
is continuing to push the enemy
back for the fourth day and con-
tinues to annihilate its rearguard
without mercy" Tass said.
In the Mozhaisk sector, 81 miles
west of Moscow, Tass reported tina.
a mass assault by Nazi tanks had
been shattered by Red artillery nre.
Altogether. the picture was among
the brightest yet painted for Rus
sia's defense armies.
Even In the Crimea, latest advices
reaching London indicated that the
Germans had made little progress
toward the great Black Sea naval
base of Sevastopol since last Sunday,
when they were reported only 20
miles away.
Long Siege Forecast.
A British military observer went
so far as to declare Sevastopol might
Withstand siege indefinitely, report
ing that the city of $4,000 was de-
Tended by well-supplied troops man.
ming very strongly fortified posi-
tions."
He said the stronghold could be-
come another Odessa. perhaps with
not the same notwithstanding to
the long defense of the Ukraine
mainland port against German and
Rumanian siege armies. Odessa
finally surrendered in mid-October.
Hitler's field headquarters de-
clared that pursuit OF the beaten
enemy" was continuing along the
entire Crimean front and asserted
that Soviet resistance had been
broken in the mountains east of
Sevastopol.
Nazis Reiterate Claim.
Reiterating yesterdays claim Of
break through to the Black Sea, the
high command said German and
Rumanian troops defeated isolated
Red Army units in the Yaila Noun
tains and pushed through broad
'front.' to the coastal region between
Yalta and Feodislya.
Authoritative London quarters
said the 36-day-old German drive
on Moscow was now very definitely
held"
German newsreels from the front
significantly stressed the hazards
and difficulties OF assaulting the U.
S. S. R. capital, displaying diagrams
and pictures of Moscow's five-ply
outer defense system-successive
barriers OF ame-throwers, tank
traps and barbed wire, 4 moat, more
tank traps and barbed-wire en-
tanglements, and finally bunkers.