Evening star., 1941-09-01
Reds Crossing
Dnieper Hurled
Back, NazisSay
Destruction of II
Soviet Monitors and
Gunbouts Claimed
BY the Associated Press.

] BY the Associated Press
BERLIN, Sept. 1.-Continued
Soviet attempts to recrosS the
Dnieper River south of Kiev with
the support of gunboats have
been thrown back with bloody
losses, German sources reported
today. The west bank remains
German held, it was claimed.
CThe Russians also claimed
that they had smashed German
attempt to bridge the Dnieper
River barrier to the Eastern
| UkraineD
The high command itself reported
the destruction of 81 Russian moni-
tors and gunboats on the river north
of Kiev, besieged Ukrainian capital,
during the past week.
Still another attempted Red Army
counter offensive - supported by
many tankS-WaS reported thrown
back on an undesignated sector of
the front.
Eighty-six enemy tanks were de-
stroyed, D.N.B., official news agency.
said, eight of them of the 52-ton va
riety. The attack was said to have
been directed at a sector held by one
German army corps.
| Somewhere in the north, another
German dispatch said, six Soviet
ships, four of them monitors, were
| destroyed by German ground forces.
1l,432 Reported Captured.
The high command announced
| that 1882 Red Army prisoners, 239
| cannon, 81 tanks, 2 armored trains
"and a great quantity of war ma
! terials" were taken in the battles
in which German forces captured
the Estonian capital of Tallinn.
The war bulletin from Adolf Hit
lers headquarters said the Estonian
west coast harbor of Haapsalu,
across a narrow channel from the
Russian-h held islands Of Dagoe and
Oesel off the mouth of the Gulf of
Finland, also had fallen to Ger
man forces in the mopup of EStonia.
The communique also reported
heavy maritime blows in the Allan
| tic, where, 1t said, a U-boat sank
| four merchantmen from convoy,
| and in the Gulf of Finland, where,
it related, more than go Russian
! ships had been sighted burning in
German minefeldS
Enter Third Year of War.
Hitler'S armies, the conquerors OF
nearly three-quarters of a million
square miles of European terri
tory, embracing 10000 900 persons
plunged into their third year of war
today deep in Russian territory
along new trails of destruction
wrought by the LuftWaffe
In the first "a months of warfare,
touched off by German operations
against Poland, Nazi arms have SUBJ
roughly. the combined size of Texas
California, Montana and New Mex
ico, and with total population
exceeding that of the United States.
In 10 weeks of fighting in Russia
alone the Germans have taken
Soviet territory amounting to more
than the area of Greater Germany
including Austria and the Sudeten-
| land.
Luftwaffe Dealing Blows.
Reichsmarshal Goering's air force
which has played a major role in
! rpnNrtaH nv
D.NB to be dealing destructive
blows" up and down the length OF
the eastern front.
| Soviet troop concentrations, air.
ports, fortresses, trains and shipping
were among the targets, the news
agency said. In one particularly
successful operation, it related, a
bridge over the Desna River, which
joins the Dnieper at Kiev, was de-
stroyed by Stukas.
Fortresses were reported singled
out for heavy attacks in the Cor
mostalpol vicinity of the north
eastern sector where Nazi flyers
claimed destruction of 13 Russian
aircraft.
In the central sector before Mos
COW, railway facilities were attacked
and the Germans said number OF
trains were blasted apart near Ko-
notop, station on the Moscow-Kiev
line some 100 miles northeast of the
Ukraine capital.
Two Soviet vessels, one of 5000
tons and the other of 1000 tons, were
reported badly damaged by Nazl
air bombs in the Gulf of Finland.