Evening star., 1941-10-10
Nozis Smashing On to Moscow
Over Piles Of Dead, Reds Say;
New Threat to City Is Reported
Russians Hurting in
Mussed Reserves
To Halt Drive
Ey the Associated Press.

COIlCeQeu toudy IlldI E.uoll Hle-
ler's invasion armies were still
advancing "over mountains of
German corpses" in the Bryansk
sector of the 9-day-old battle fol-
Moscow, and simultaneously the
British radio reported a new
threat developing almost due
west of the U. S. S. R. capital.
B. B. c. said Nazi troops were
striking toward the upper Volga
town of Rzhev, l25 miles west CT
Moscow, thereby stretching the main
Soviet defense line into a mile
arc through wanna and Bryansk to
Orel. The Germans said the line of
attack was 3l0 miles long.
In the see-saW fighting around
wanna. l25 miles southwest Of Mos
COW. the Russians admitted the Ger
mans had scored gains in several
sectors. but said picked Red Army
troops were now moving up to meet
them, reinforcing units which
breasted the first violent impact of
the Nazi onslaught
The sweep of mighty armed Ger
man forces through the gap N Rus
sia's central front lines was COM
pared by the authoritative German
commentary Dienst aus Deutsch-
land with a torrent of water pouring
through a break in a once powerful
dam.
The news commentary used the
sinlile in asserting that the break
through announced by the high
command had opened the way for
the masses of German divisions to
pour into the spaces conquered by
srmored formations"
Rings Are frightened.
Besides breaking the Russian lines
the communique said, the Germans
yesterday tightened the rings around
Red armies at the Sea of Azov
Bryansk and Vyazma
The Germans reported forward
progress along the entire front" and
said one kettle" of Soviet resist
ance after another was being wiped
out.
The Germans were now hammer
ing at Moscow from three and per-
haps four main sectors, possibly at
tempting to surround the Russian
capital as they circled Warsaw in
1899.
Reports circulated in Berlin, Off
cially unconfrmed but not denied,
that Nazi troops had captured the
important railway town of Tula.
only 1870 miles south of Moscow
Authorized German sources limited
that vanguards of German units
south of Moscow already were east
of the longitude of the Russian
capital with the intention of sur
rounding it.
A Nazi military commentator said
the break-through extended roughly
from Orel, about 220 miles south of
Moscow, to Vyazma.
Huge Nazi Forces Hurled.
Red Star. the Russian Army news
paper, said the Germans were throw
ing immense forces into the new
push after being routed earlier in
the Bryansk sector. 22O miles south
west of Moscow.
AS an example, Red Star said two
Nazi tank divisions and two motor
lied infantry divisions we're hurled
against a single Red Army unit of
undisclosed size. and that three
German infantry divisions, led by
100 tanks, attacked another Soviet
unit during one-day battle.
Red Star said the Germans were
continuing to advance at several
sectors near Vyazma, about midway
on the Smolensk- Moscow highway.
But there. too. it said, the invaders
were paying the price of enormous
losses.
Furthermore. it declared. the pick
OF the Red Army is moving up to
them, reinforcing units which took
the first shock of the offensive now
In its second week.
Elsewhere in the same region,
counterattacking Soviet troops were
reported to have routed a German
motorized column, killing 5000 Nazis
and destroying 220 tanks in a five
day battle.
Main Plan Declared Foiled.
Red Star summarized the broad
picture OF the situation by saving
the Germans had won some sue
cesses on some sectors but that one
of their main plans had been foiled
by failure to surround the defend
Ing armies.
Other Soviet dispatches asserted
that despite the renewed fury of the
German onslaught, Hitler's vast en-
clrclement plan before Moscow had
collapsed and that at least some of
the trapped Red armies had battled
their way out of the Nazi nut
cracker.
The atmosphere in Moscow itself.
contrasting with yesterdays official
acknowledgement Of a grave emer-
sency, was distinctly more conf
dent.
The Soviet command was reported
to have opened the foodgates of
Russia s mighty man power reserves.
throwing masses of fresh troops into
the bitter conflict.
A Red Army bulletin reported also
that the Nazi offensive north of
Orel, on the south wing of the Ger
man drive on Moscow, had been
blocked. The Russians earlier ac-
knowledged the loss of Orel
Soviet front-line dispatches said
at least $4,000 German officers and
soldiers had been killed in various
pocket" battles around WANNA and
Bryansk.
Loss Of 3 Cities Admitted.
Authoritative quarters in London
confirmed that the Germans had
captured Meltopol. Ossipenko (Ber-
dyansk) and Mariupol along the
north shore of the Azov Sea, and
said 1t was possible that a consid-
cradle pocket of Russian resistance
existed west of those points-pre-
sumably cut off.
These informants were skeptical.
however. Of German assertions that
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