The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22

dAL S1kOKV Q CAOOG & P4AASCA0 G%4ONAAN Moscow and take the Soviet capital from the rear, but 1t was admitted that driving snowstorms and sub- freezing temperatures were hamper. ing their operations.
 A renewal of Russian efforts tt break out of the steel ring around Leningrad was reported. Nazi quar- ters claimed, however, that the Rus. sians, despite the concerted support of their warships at Leningrad anc Kronstadt, had suffered heavy losses
 The only detailed report of oper' ations in the Donets area was 2 Germali news agency dispatch as' serting that German planes hac effectively" bombed and machine gunned Russian field positions troop and railway concentrations neal 1ssum, 75 miles north of Stalino whose capture was claimed by tht high command yesterday.
 The agency also reported that during four-day pursuit of Soviet troops on the southern front, 6,o0t prisoners were captured and II cannon and Hundreds of heavy in' fantry weapons" taken.
 The 1uftwaffe, in surprise attacks behind Russian front lines in thC Donets area, were reported by the agency to be throwing retreatinr Soviet forces "intd disorder" Stuks dive-bombers were said to be smash. ing at rear railway communications
 Baltic Fleet Hurt
 German quarters claimed that thu Russian Baltic fleet, under constant fire of heavy German artillery 1T recent weeks, had lost much of 1t, effectiveness. The Russians, they re. ported, risked no heavy units during the German operations against the Baltic islands although Maxi cruis. CTS, minesweepers and speedboats played a prominent part in their fall.
 The official news agency reported that Spanish troops had gone into action for the first time and cre- ated @ bridgehead over an unidenti- fled river in @ northern sector in the face of strong Soviet resistance
 A propaganda company dispatch released today claimed that the town of Perekop and the entire isthmus separating the Crimea from the Russian mainland was now ir German hands. The Russians at- tempted to recapture the lost ground but were driven of after an all. night battle, the dispatch reported
 Another propaganda company dis. patch reported that German author ities had decided to seize Odesso'i Jews, "as carriers of the Bolshevis' bacilli," and segregate them in . ghetto.
 Bombs on Moscow
 A communique issued from Adoli Hitler's field headquarters said Ger. man planes rained bombs on Mos COW yesterday and last night ane claimed that in mopping up opera tons south of Bryansk the Germans captured 5000 prisoners, 66 guns ane heavy tank.
 Extension of the area of occupa. ton in the Donets basin represented the chief German gain claimed by the high command. Informants sait the command planned 6 slow en- circlement of Moscow while driving through the Donets basin.
 Supplementing the high com mand's communique the official new agency said that on the northern front in Russia German troops re- pulsed with heavy losses severa Russian attempts to cross the New river at Leningrad yesterday. Tn agency claimed that attempts by tn Russians to make sorties beyont their Leningrad Notifications wer replused.
 Informed Nazis in Berlin said tn Germans, after consolidating thei southern gains, would proceed east wards and southeastwards, "a plail threat to the Caucasus if not to tn British middle east.