Evening star., 1941-08-03
Vichy, Warned by U. S., Defies
Germany on Dokor Demands;
Reds Put Nozi 7 oil at 100000
Moscow Claims Rout
Of Two Additional
Enemy Divisions
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MOSCOW Sunday, Aug. s.
Red Army counterattacks in the
Smolensk zone were officially
declared today to have broken
two new German divisions, and a
Soviet spokesman said Nazi cas-
ualties now totaled more than
100000 men.
Destructive blows at German tank
columns inside Russian lines, sink
ing of a German destroyer and a
transport and damaging of three
other vessels in a Baltic Sea con-
Voy were reported.
Soviet troops, communique said.
engaged the invaders throughout
yesterday in the directions of Pork
hov, Smolensk, Korosten and Bye
laya Tserkov and on the Estonian
front. Korosten lies about so miles
north of Zhitomir, which long has
been center of Ukrainian fight
ing. Byelaya Tserkov is south of
Kiev.
Army Declared Begged Down.
THE German Army is begged
down on the eastern front" said
Vice Foreign Commissar S. A. Lo-
zovsky, who estimated the casualties.
CReports from Berlin presented
an entirely different picture,
DienSt aus Deutschland, a news
agency, predicting the way to
Moscow will be open shortly"
German war reports told of the
outbreak of another great de-
Structive battle" in the Ukraine)
Foreign CommiSsar LozoVSky de-
clared the Germans now were forced
to change their tactics to prepare
for a long war and said "the six
weeks of this gigantic encounter
are only the beginning"
With four wearied NaZi divisions
already declared to have been cut
to pieces in a succession of trip
hammer counterblows, the army
newspaper Red Star reported the
destruction of two more-the 5th
and 253d divisions.
Fierce Four Day Struggle.
Red Star said the 253d was routed
after fierce four-day struggle near
the city of "V," in which the Ger
mans were estimated to have left
behind $3.50 dead, SO artillery pieces,
Al trucks, 19 motorcycles, So ma
chine guns, many rifles and docu-
ments-
Novel absorbing tactics were de-
scribed by the newspaper as effec-
tive against German machines. 1t
reported that one column of 300
tanks was liquidated by Russian
infantry division.
The dispatch said the tanks pene-
trated the Russian lines at break
neck speed. disregarding their own
rear or Red troops around them.
counting on the break through to
disrupt opposition.
The Russian division organized
light defense screen which drew
the attention of the tanks while the
main defenseS concentrated on the
fianks.
At nightfall the tanks parked in
forest and the Russians brought
up artillery, horses and men hauling
the guns in quietly. At dawn the
batteries opened fire, first wrecking
the outer rows of tanks, then lei
surely working over the whole for
nation.
Adventurous Tactics.
Col. Boris Andreyev, who wrote
the Red Star dispatch, concluded:
This brilliant operation showed
clearly that the adventurous tao
tics of the Fascist mechanical forces
inevitably suffer defeat if met by
skillfully organized counterblow in
active defense"
The Soviet communique declared
that the Red Air Force destroyed
41 German planes Friday, while
losing 10 of its own and, in wide
spread operations with ground
forces, dealt blows at enemy panzer
units, infantry and artillery"
Lozovsky, in his press conference.
said Germans claimed at the start
of the war that Moscow would be
taken in about three weeks and
that there we're restaurant stra-
tegists" in other countries who be-
lieved Russia would be conquered
in a month.
Now the tone is changed" the
spokesman said. and the Germans
admit the 'fanaticism," fighting
power and high morale of Soviet
troops.
Points to Resistance.
At his press conference Lozovsky
took up one by one early German
claims of successes and said that
now they: have changed their tune.
This means that the blitZkrieg
has missed fire." he asserted.
"Why?" he asked, then answered
himself:
The reason is that the 'invin-
chile German troops encountered
vigorous resistance, the vigorous and
successful counter attacks of the
Red Army.
Now it has been clearly proved
that 'blitz' chatter is one thing and
'blitzkrieg' is another
THE German Army has gotten
entangled at the eastern front. 1t
has sustained tremendous losses in