Evening star., 1941-09-29
War

War
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holding its own against the Ger
man invaders
Announcement oil the victory
over the Rumanians in the south
| followed Soviet claims of a series
of naval victories which came as
British and American missions got
down TO business in Moscow on
| long-term program of helping the
| Russian war machine.
Persistent Russian counterattacks
were reported both on the ap-
proaches to Leningrad and IN the
central sector where the tank forces
! of German Gen. Heinz Guderian
were said to have suffered a new
blow after having been driven back
from the direction of Bryansk
A frontline dispatch from that
sector said the Russians recaptured
two villages. designated only as
w" and D. in tank and in
fantry attack following up an ar
tillery barrage. The Germans suf-
fered heavy losses. it said, leaving
300 dead, tanks and other ma
terial among the debris OF one vii
lage alone
German Cruiser Claimed.
The early morning Russian COM
munique announced that Russian
coastal and ship batteries sank
German cruiser and destroyer and
damaged two other destroyers in the
Baltic Sea.
1t added that the Red feet sank
two transports of 5000 and 5000
tons in Arctic waters and that a
tanker of 5000 tons was sent to
the bottom of the Black Sea.
On land the Russians said the
Red Army in fierce counterattacks
on the central front recaptured 10
more villages in its drive from
Yelnya toward Smolensk. The Red
Army also was said to have hurled
the Germans from three lines of
trenches and TO have crossed the
Desna River in an advance on a
Smile front.
Leplngrad continued TO resist the
strongest German air and land pres
sure. it was said
The Red air force was reported
rendering great aid to the land
troops. The communique said the
Germans lost SO planes Friday along
the entire front, compared with 81
Soviet planes lost.
The Italian news agency, Stefani,
said in a Sofia Bulgaria. dispatch
that Russian parachute troops had
landed in Bulgaria, and nine of
them, fully armed with gas and
ammunition, were being hunted in
| the Sliven region. in Eastern Bull
garia. Previous Bulgarian charges
| OF such landings have been denied
The r. A. F. wing fighting with
the Red air force in Russia shot
down II planes up to Saturday
night, with the loss of one fighter
plane, the British Air Ministry re-
ported in London.
Push Toward KharkOv.
German soldiers were reported
pushing eastward in a direct threat
to Kharkov, the most important CITY
of the Donets industrial area. while
lar to the north NaZi guns and
planes struck at the Red power in
the Baltic.
D.NB. said new German opera
tlons were in progress on the eastern
front after completion of the en-
clrclement battle of Kiev. and semi
official quarters indicated the Ger
man advance in the Ukraine was not
slowed down despite the intensity of
the Kiev struggle.
In Bucharest, Rumania. Gen.
Virgil Economu of the Rumanian
Army said German attacks aimed at
kharkov and on the rail center of
Bryansk, $50 miles northwest of
Kharkov, already were "in progress"
He described Kharkov and the whole
Donets basin and Don region as
directly threatened"
D.N.B. said the German Air Force
raided Russian strongholds on the
southern front and destroyed three
railroad trains. Numerous vehicles
and airplane hangers. The agency
called the Russian losses great.
krOnstadt Shelled.
In the Baltic fighting, German
reports said big guns were shelling
Kronstadt, Russian island naval
base guarding the sea approach to
Leningrad, and that German dive
bombers were seeking out remnants
of the Soviet Baltic fleet.
The high command said yesterday
one Russian cruiser was set afire by
the capnonading, and a battleship
near Kronstadt was said to have
been hit by heavy bombs. The
shelling began Friday, it was said
The guns were believed mounted
somewhere in the vicinity of Oriani-
enbaum, on the mainland 7 miles
across the mouth of the Neva
River from Kronstadt and about Is
miles from Leningrad.
D.N.B., telling how the Germans
were mopping up the area east of
Kiev, said single division within
"a hours captured 10000 Russian
prisoners, and said some advance
units caught up with streams of
retreating Red soldiers.
The Finnish air force heavily
bombed the Murmansk railroad be-
tween Petrozavodsk and Karhumaki
yesterday. 1t was announced in Hell
sinki Hits were reported on trans
nprt troipc