The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-12
INAZIS FORCING SOVIETS TO RUN

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 The oficial news agency DINE said that during patrol activity In the Kiey. sector today German fighters had shot down % Soviet planes.
 The high commands co11munique, issued from Adolf Hitler,s headqunr- ters. made no claims regarding lat- est operations against the Russians in land fighting. The text of the communiQue regarding the eastern front warfare:
 operations on the eastern front continue to proceed favorably. Bombers last night bombed military objectives in Moscow and several important railroad functions. Large fires and heavy explosions were caused on railroads"
 Orderly Withdrawal
 Ulrainiafl front dispatches re- porting an orderly Russian with 1drawal attracted interest among Ob- servers here.
 It was reported that the Germans and the HungarianS continued to advance rapidly but at the same time there were indications that the advance had been possible because the Russians were withdrawing in mass under their defense in depth technique.
 Neutral observers were interested in Hungarian war con1munique, received here, which said in part: "AS already published by the Ger man high command the great battle of encirclement in the Ukraine has ended. Only mopping up operations of dispersed and isolated troops are still going on. Hungarian motor ized troops had an active part in these operations, and are preparing for the next phase of the battle.
 Enemy forces which were lln- touched by the encirclement are re- tiring on a broad front, making great efforts on roads which became almost impossible because of rain- fall.
 Tn other sectors some cutoff units are still desperately defending themselves"
 Observers pointed out that there was no assertion that the Russian retreat was diSorderly, and it was believed possible that the Russians were carrying out an orderly re- treat which, if successful, would at least temporarily rob the German command of its main objective of destroying the enemy"
 Nearing Black Sea
 German quarters hinted that the Germans and HungarianS were nearing the Black Sea and threat ening important Russian ports but there were no claims to specific po- sttions, and there was almost com- plete silence regarding other fronts.
 1nformants said German planes were attacking Russian transports in which troops were being evacu- ated from the southern Ukraine and that four merchantmen totaling 5000 tons, one of 10000 tons. and one of 800 tons were sunk yesterday west of Odessa.
 Today's newspapers played up two stories one an account of a viAt of correspondents to Smolensk, the other a statement of German pro- gresS in the first seven weeks ot the Russo German war on all but the Finnish front.
 German speedboats attacked . convoy escorted by destroyerS o1I the English coast Sunday night and destroyed g merchant ship of 5000 tons, the high command said today.
 A communique added that in the Atlantic a German long range bomb- CT had sunk a tanker of 5000 tons and 1t disclosed new German air raids on the Sue1 Canal.
 The speedboat attack met deter. mined British opposition, the high command said. It added that in . raid on Sues last night merchant ships of 10000 tons and 5000 tons were severely damaged.
 Death Sentences A United Press Stockholm dis patch reported today that after us- ing all other means to try to stop sabotage and espionage in Norway German occupation authorities had resorted to death sentences for the first time.
 Three Norwegians were shot d Bergen yesterday, the dispatch said on the charge that they went C England and returned with a radio set and weapons which they used l in building an illegal organization. | The dispatch disclosed that there was Q new NaI GeStapo (secret police) chief in Norway and that il was believed he had over-ridden the German army ban on death sen. tences. The German army had for. bidden the death penalty on the Iground that Norwegians were really Germany,s comrades in arms"