The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-10
Russia Insists Nazis
 Met With Reverses
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GA German motorized division might number up to 5000 vehicles mad l2,00O men. A German infantry division would number more than iS,000 nlen)
 The communique reported two great battles, one In the Polotsk White Russian area, the other in the Novograd VolynSk Ukrainian area, in addition to other ferocious fights on 0 smaller scale.
 It had been indicated that the Germans were trying desperately to break through at these points-to- ward Moscow and Kiev, capital ot the Ukarine.
 The Russians are firmly holding up large masses of attacking Ger mans in the Novograd Volynsk area, the communicate asserted, and are violently resisting the Germans and Rumanians In an attack on the Hessarahian front.
 In the BobruiSk direction south east of Minsk the Russian artillery has inflicted heavy losses OIL the Germans, 1t was said.
 Russian airplanes in attacks yes. terday afternoon destroyed bout 100 German tanks, 1t was asserted
 Naxls Attack Desperately
 GAS in their early communiques the Russians indicated that the Germans were now attacking des- perately in an attempt to break through at some part of the Rus alan line before their stalled Blitz- krieg had to be stopped to permit men to rest and machines to pc reconditioned.
 Tt was indicated strongly also that the Germans har been unable Id make any effective gain at any point on the long, hiercely contested Dttle line from Ostrov to hte black Sea. .A fighting at some points.
 (There had been reports 1rotl Vichy that the Russians had massec 2.OOO. GOO men behind the centra part of their front ready to engage inc Germans if they broke through
 The early communique had re- ported the Russians smashing !nte the German lines in the Plotsk' I,Auel sector, where & German ol' vision was now reported wiped out to break up a new German attemp to drive through toward Moscow:
 The Germans were attacking ler' ociously in three areas in an at tempt to get their stalled nlitzKrlet rolling again.
 Authoritative British sources as serted yesterday that unless th' Germans could break through with in the next few days a consioeraoi' pause was likely because It woulS he necessary to recondition the tr ing armored forcesO
 Drive to Leningrad
 From the Ostrov direction soutt of Lake Peipus In Estonia the Ger mans were trying to drive towar' Leningrad. .,
 Their second big drive was In th' Polotsk- -Lepel area where the RuS sians launched their counter-attacK
 The third was from Novogra' Volynsk sector, to the south, amle' toward Kiev, capital of the Ukraine (The communique indicated tna the Germans were throwing every thing they could into their mai , drives. that the Russians were hold ing well along the entire line ant the German forces were payinI dearly for any small gatnO
 Great masses of tanks ana mo torized artillery and infantry wer engaged all along the front. '.
 The Russian air force heavily at ! tackled German motorized and me chanized units in operations yester , day, the communique said, an . bombed German airplanes in raid ! which destroyed German grounoe planes.
 bombed the RuInanian naval 0as of ConstanEa, the ports or Iulce and Sulin at the mouth or tn Danube and shipping in the viein ity and oil fields in the Ploestl re goin north of Bucharest, the com munique reported.
 General situation
 The part of the communion which dealt with the general mill tary situation, as Issued througl the official news agency Tass, wa as follows:
 July 9 our troops continued m lensely to fight large tank an motorized enemy units whlehe en deavoFed to break through In th OstFoy, Plotsk and Novogsad Vol ynSk directions.
 "In the ostrcv direction ou troops are stubbornly fighting an holding back the advance of nu meFically superior enemy forces,
 Tn the Pfetsk direction the en emy renewed lts advance in th morning. Our troops met the ca Iemy with devastating machine gu land artillery fire and Feaolute conn leF.attaeks, Fighting b going oE The enemy is suffering heavy iohh les.
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