The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-28

It was added that the Germans had made scores of attacks, led by tanks, in one Kharkov area alone in three days and that the Russians were ordered to withdraw.
 Moscow said the Germans had lost as many as $500 men a day at Kharkov alone.
 The Germans already had claimed Kharkov, and there was no disposi- ton here to dispute the claim.
 Russian Report
 Kuibyshev, U. s. s. R., Oct. 28 = CU.P.) = Russian shock troops and dive bombers pushed back German forces in e successful ounter-attack on the Moscow front, war dispatches reported today as the official press press called for 8 last ditch battle in defense of the Donets Basin.
 New and strong Axis attacks on the Orel sector, the Kharkov path way to the Donets and the CriInea were reported by the Russians, who said that all of the enemy. drives had been successfully resisted and that the Red Army would fight in every town until "the Fascists are exhausted
 On the Moscow front, the Russian counter -attack directed by Lieuten- ant General Konstantin K. Rokos- sovsky in the Mozhaisk sector, about 60 miles from the capital, was re- ported the most successful of sev- eral Red Army blows against the German line.
 The Germans were reported driven back at Q point in the Mozhaisk vi- cinity and all of their attempts to regain ground were repulsed by Russian infantry and air attacks. GA Moscow radio broadcast quoted the newspaper Pravda as saying 50 German tanks, 10 planes and 200 munitions trucks were destroyed).
 The situation continued grave in the south Ukraine, where the Ger mans chief objective is Rostov, but press dispatches said that the enemy had made no important gains in at- tacks on the Donets Basin and the Crimea. (London reports said the Germans had about 100000 troops and 15,000 tanks in the Donets of- fensive.)
 The Russian dispatches acknow- ledged that in various sectors the Red Army had given ground, but said that the Germans had paid a heavy price-reportedly 50,0O0 cas- ualties and 260 tanks at Stalino alone--for their advances and that there were no important break through.
 The press emphasized reports that the Germans were nearing a state of exhaustion and said that on the other hand the Russians were pouring new troops, equipment and large labor battalions into the front lines.
 German Report
 Berlin, Oct. 28 -- (U.P) - A high command communique asserted to- day that the Germans were pursu- ing retreating Russian forces in the Donets river basin after taking the town of Kramatorsk, 50 miles north of Stalino, and that the Hungarians had taken additional important industrial towns"
 An official news agency dispatch from the Leningrad front asserted German heavy artillery had silenced the guns of the Kronstadt Island naval base off Leningrad, which had been smelling German forces on the shore, and had bombarded Lenin- grad heavily.
 In tis communique the high com mand said Kramatorsk was occu- pied yesterday.
 Operations on the remainder of the front were progressing, 1t said.
 The colnmunique said German planes which bombed the harbor of Kerch, at the eastern side of the Crimean Peninsula. had sunk B. 900 ton merchant ship.
 Ofiicial news agency dispatches reported that on the southern front tlan F7a1nOariafis were calming further