The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-27
RUSSIA REPORT NAZIS STOPPED
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man truckS were reported SmaSneu and burned in the battle.
 On the southwest sector defend- ing the capital 1t was admitted in Russian reports that the Germans had made very slight gains at Q heavy cost, but the enemy was said to have been thrown back on the northwest in fighting at Kalinin, Q vital communication point which the Red army is attempting to hold ct all costs against strong attacks.
 The Russians again reported they were fighting at Kharkov, which the Germans said they took last Friday, but British sources believed that the city was lost for all prac- tical purpose.
 Pressure of Axis forces in the Ukraine, especially against Rostov, emphasized the importance of re- ported plans for joint British-Rus. sian defense of the Caucasus.
 General Wavel Ready
 There was one report that Wavel had already talked to Marshal Sem- yon Timoshenko, new Russian corl- mander In chief on the southern front, and 1t was said that officers of his staff had visited Russian cities both east and south of Rostov, ct the mouth of the Don, discussing Q common defense.
 Iflformants said all available builders and contractors in allied controlled territory In the midle east were now engagd in road building under British direction, that the worn roads of Iran leading to the Caucasus were being i'm proved and new roads built. Russia likewise was reported improving It's roads.
 Originally this work was intended to facilitate transport of British and American supplies for Russia, but with the Germans nearing Rostov 1t was believed that British troops might soon be tramying the roads toward the caucasus.
 Such talks as those Waveh was rec ported to be conducting would logi. cally deal with pooled Russo-Bri- tish defense line from the Black Sea to the Caspian, to block any German thrust toward the Caucasus and Iran.
 Germany Moves Troops
 Germany was reported moving hundreds of thousands of reserves to the eastern front for 6 new ate tempt to crack the Russian line west and southwest of Moscow and to send the German armies rolling on from the Kharkov-Rostov area in the south.
 Authoritative informants here said the danger to the Russian Do- nets river basin was now SO grave that the rich industries remaining there were of little value.
 They reported heavy fighting all along the front, with the Russians resisting fiercely.
 As to the Moscow front they 5aid the Germans probably had made slight advances west and south west of Moscow but seemed to have made no progress in the Kalinin area north of the Russian capital.
 It was asserted that the weather was miserable and that the roads were in c very bad state especially west of Moscow.
 Authoritative British quarters watched the Kalinin sector closely, because there the Germans could make their attacking force the northern arm Of . pincer move ment on Moscow of the southern arm of Q movement against Vol- ogda, 265 miles 11orth-northweSt of Moscow, junction point of the Mos- coWs Archangel. Arctic railroad and the northern arm of the Trans Siberial railroad. The Germans were believed to be greatly inter- ested in Vologda.
 Reds Regain Ground
 Kuibyshev, U. S. s. R., Oct. 27-- (UP)--A Red army counter-attack regained ground on the central front defending Moscow, dispatches reported today, but 1t was acknow- ledged that fierce Axis pressure continued against the Donets basin.
 Adequate British and American aid to Russia has become more and more urgent because the German offensive is now in a decisive stage in the industrial heart of thu e Ukraine, Soviet official sources said.
 On the Moscow front, the enemy offensive continued to pound at the Red army lines but-all thrusts were said to have been checked in the vital sectors, while counter blows regained some ground in the Moz- haisktarea.
 Many villages changed hands re- peatedly after severe street fight ing, the dispatches said, but in the vicinity of the town of "B" the Germans were forced to fall back after Panzer attack led by dive- bombers failed to capture the town.
 There was no definite news in the last 24 hours of the progress of fighting at Kalinin, vital communi- cations point northwest of Moscow, according to the newspaper Prav- da, but at last reports the Russians were holding part of the city. THIEVES DISRUPT RAIL WIRES
 Buenos Aires-(UP) = Railway telegraph service was interrupted batween Buenos and Rosario-Ar- gentina's two largest cities = one day recently. Linemen, checking the cause, found that thieves had removed and carried away about Q half-mile of wire.
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