The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25
Soviet Dive Bombers In
 Smash Against Nazis
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1Ians ana Numanlans by dive. 4lnbzfa and nabreeGWingihg cav. HAKymtn who drove the enemy back te tno frontier.
 t"uaqalry was tempted to pursue sne enemy across the frontier but wmB ordered Co halt" Che radio kald. 'az'he cavalry telegraphed the Alvoa bomber command thanking it F0r eoaopeKAtlon." rho broadcABt sAlE that one Russian aviator dc. E1ged three Messersehmltts away from the scene os battle and then landed safely after being wounded, Russian tanks repeatedly attacked German tanks, sometimes against hig odds, it added, but each enemy tank was 'hoty pursued."D xt was asserted that Russian air. planes had bombed KoenlgsbeFR, capital og East Prussia. Dangig; Rubin and Wafeaw, In Poland, and 0onKtansA and eulina on the Ru. uAanian Black sea coast.
 ConstAfiEa was said to be in flames and it was asserted that gasoline depots were flaming At Warsaw.
 The communlque, as issued by the official TaAs news agency, admitted the loss of 374 Russian planes in the first three days of the Russo. Ger man war but asserted that Russia had destroyed approximately S0O German planes.
 itwas said that the Germans were landing small groups of parachutists, wearing Russian army unifornis, bee hind the Red army lines 10 haraSs communications, and that special exterminAticn battailons were in ac. ton against them.
 m detailing It's air raids, Russia claimed that they were strictly in reprlsal for attacks on specific Rus- sian cities.
 Al the end, the communidue noted that both FinianA and Rumania had put their territory at the disposal Of German forces.
 As regards naval action, it was asserted that Russian warships had sunk German submarine In the GnlK 0t g1nlnnd,
 Whereas for the first two days Of the war the daily communique waa aesued by the high command, today g was issued by the Soviet infor. snation bureau, from which it VIII como hereafter.
 Communique Details
 The communlque, as Issued by TaSe, said;
 sCofninunique of tAD Soviet In- formation Bureau:
 "During the 24th of June the enemy continued to develop It's off, scnsive in the siauiiai Kaunas Glrodno-W WolkowySk, Kobrln, Vladl- bir-VoiynSk and Brody directions encountering resistance of Rcd army AEoope.
 (T'heso points art along a north. south front extending from Siaulial in mid.Llthuania to Brody, east of Lwow, Poland. The front extends 4C0 miles.)
 "An enemy attacks in the Siau' liai direction wtre replilBcd with heavy losses for the enemy. But countersattackS our nechafliSed troops routed enemy tank units and completely Anlihliated one motor- ised regiment in this direction.
 (This is the German drVe through Lithuaria toward Latvia)
 Violent Fighting
 "ir the drodno- w Wolkowysk and NreSt Litovsk. .pinBk directions Vio- lent fighting is in progress for drodno, Kobrin, Wllifo and kaunas.
 tn this eastward drive the Ger mi rs were thrusting along railroads and riyers to the east, one of their big oe jeetives being Pinsk, eaS tof DFest.LitovSk at the western edge Of tho great Pripet marshes).
 "fn tho Brody direction stubborn fighting, in the course of which c heavy defeat was inflicted on the enemy, continues between large tank units.
 tHere tho Germans seek to drive into the Ukraine from the south side of tho niarshes).
 "Our aviation, successfully coops erating with land troops in the bats tiefieid, dealt c number of crushing blows to enemy airdromes and i'm. portant military objoetives,
 "fn sir combab our air force brought down 34 planes.
 "fn the Gulf of Finland navy ships sank one enemy submarine.
 "As 6 reprisal for two raids on 9abastopol by German bombers from Rumaniafl territory, Soviet bombera three times bombed Constanza and euiina. Constansa Is in flames.
 (eebastopal, c Russian naval base on the Black sea shore of the