Evening star., 1941-07-01
Nazis Advance in Three Sectors
Russian Attempt to Break Wise
West Of Minsk Foi|ed> Berlin Says
Moscow Admits
Enemy Drive
10 Bobruisk
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, July 1.-German
penetration to the area of Bo-
bruisk, 80 miles southeast of
Minsk, was acknowledged in a
Soviet communique today as Red
Army forces battered at Nazi
panzer columns which stretched
eastward, like the fingers of a
gigantic hand, from the Dvina
River to the Carpathians.
Fierce fighting was reported at
several points along this main,
central portion and the northern
sector of a front extending from
the Arctic to the Black Sea.
The Russians admitted they had
given ground before the German
onslaught along the Arctic coast to-
ward Murmansk. western terminus
of the Soviet's famous great north
ern sea route. But they said they
exacted heavy losses of the Germans
in fighting through the long day
and white night of this far northern
battlefront.
Powerful Air Attacks.
On the 2,000-mile front both right
and left flanks of the far-f1ung Red
Army line remained firmly anchored,
military sources said.
Fresh motorized German forces
thrown into the drive from Dvinsk,
Latvla, toward Leningrad were de-
clared subjected to powerful attacks
from the Soviet air force.
Southwark in the region of Minsk
and 'Bobruisk, "all-night battles of
Soviet infantrymen. artillery, tanks
and aviation resisted German efforts
to break through eastward" a COM
munique said.
Below BobruiSk, fighting was &C
knoWledged in the region OF Rowne,
Poland, so miles southeast of Luck.
There the Red Army was said to
have checked the advance of en-
emy tank units eastward and coun-
terattacked, inf1icting heavy casual
ties Another column was active
still farther south from captured
Lwow. ...-.
The easternmost of the acknowl-
edged central front battle zones was
that at Bobruisk. The German drive
there paralleled the Minsk-to- Mos
COW thrust and, if successful, its
units would have the choice of push
ing northeast to menace the Soviet
capital or turning south into the
besin of the Dnieper. the great river
which leads to the Ukraine.
Air Fleet Aids Ground Forces.
A midday communique earlier had
reported that the Red air feet Joined
ground forces in repulsing the Arctic
night attack on Murmansk.
OF the Minsk sector the Moscow
communique said:
In the Minsk and Bobruisk di-
rections our troops fought all night
against superior enemy forces, sue
cessfully communicating their at
tempts to thrust toward the East.
Infantry, artillery, tanks and the
air force participated in the fight
ing"
An earlier Russian communique
indicated the heaviest fighting was
along a jagged battle line from
Minsk to the Arctic Ocean. But
the whole front from the Black Sea
to the far northern shores roared
with battle as the Germans strove
to reach Moscow and Leningrad
and the Ukraine.
One Russian report, however, did
acknowledge that Red Army troops
had fallen back.
1t said that Lwow, in old Poland,
had been abandoned and the Rus
SLAMS had fought a delaying action
to reach new positions because
Hungary's entry into the war beside
Hitler opened the possibility of a
thanking move against that city and
the Western Ukraine.
Victories for Red Fleet.
The Russian war report earlv to-
day did not mention air combat but
said the Red fleet had scored VIC
tories over the German navy-sink-
ing two submarines in the Baltic and
one in the Black Sea.
The communique, opening with
the fighting at the top of Europe.
said the Soviet forces drove back the
enemy" which launched an offen-
slve Sunday all along the Soviet
Finnish border.
In the old Baltic states of Latyia
and Lithuania, the Red army report
said the Russians are waging furious
battles against German motorized
forces attempting to break through
the Vilna-Dvinsk areas snd push to
Leningrad.