The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-10
New, Heavy Fighting
 At Moscow, Leningrad
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NOSN-Ne-~NN~NN fl,ore was no confirmation here of German claims to the capture of xalka.
 German Army Firing
 British experts said there were mounting indications that the smoothly functioning German army Co tiring under the strain of an of- Eensiye conducted from bases at the end og hundreds of miles of uncer- tain communications and against stern Russian opposition.
 Except in the Crimea where the Germans still claimed some progress, fighting was said to be at vir- tual standstill along the whole l. 800 mile front except for constant hRvrassing counter-attacks by the Soviet forces, particularly in the Moscow region.
 Military experts believed the Rus sian lines in Crlmea, defending Sev- mtopoi and the Kerchenski Straits, are in fairly gSod condition for an extended stand and noted comment by some German sources that the early capture of the Soviet Black Sea base is not necessarily expected.
 Reports to the British press from Stockholm said the worst winter weather yet seen has hit the front an almost all sectors south from Murmarsk.
 Around the Arctic port binding blizzard was raging with snowfall so heavy, both Russians and Ger mans were immobilized. Heavy EnowS around Leningrad and Mos COW were reported, with drifts pil- ing up in the German trenches,
 Even in the Ukraine, tempera- lures were falling and some of the smaller streams are coated with ice. Tn the Crimea, Sleet storms were re- ported.
 Naxi Dependency
 An indication of spreading Nazi despondency over the drive in Rus sia was seen in a German broadcast heard here.
 "Gray is the country" said the broadcaster, "Gray is the sky everything is gray and empty. With its aspect Of forlorness the whole country is frightening. The road to Moscow resembles one vast soaked sponge along which men, horses and lorries are wadlng painfully and ytrenuouSly. Slowly they move, dragging themselves step by step. Time after time they are begged town. This is Russia"
 Attention was also drawn here to Adolf H1tler's admission that the Nazis are on the defensive before Leningrad. The Hitler statement and persistent reports of Russian attempts to break out of Leningrad were though to indicate that the Russians are vigorously attempting to improve communications between Moscow and Leningrad.
 Th0 weather has appeared to nave less effect on the Russians than the Germans. Counter-attacks on the Moscow front are reparted by the Moscow radio to have re- covered villages in the vicinity of Volokolanlsk and Serpukhov while at MaloyaroSlavetS and Mozhaisk the Gefmans appear to be well checked.
 British military experts have been particularly impressed with the Russian stands at Kalinin and Tula, 100 miles north and south reSpec- lively of the capital.
 Tn the DonetS area reports ind1- eated that mud has begged down the Germans and that Soviet re- distance Is growing stronger. Lat est Russian reports from the area described a strenuous day-long bat. tic ky Nazi tanks which failed to breaI Soviet defenseS.
 Another Smash Failed
 The Russian radio quoted the correspondent of the newspaper Pravda that a German Finnish att tempt to cut across to the White sea and isolate the Russian forces at Murmansk had failed with the loss of 2,500 German troops.
 Radio Mascow said the Germans made determined efforts to bomb Moscow just before the celebration of the Red revolution anniversary, Nov. 2. More than 250 German planes attempted to fly over Nov. 8, the reports said, but Russian lighter planes broke up the attack and none of the planes reached the city. Thirty-four were brought down.. In the past two days 133 German pjlanes were said to have been brought down on all sections of the front while German plane losses in the Moscow sector since Oct. 3 are placed at 400 by the Rus Sians.
 Another Pravda report claimed that . German general whose name was given as 'Rens" (other reports gave 1t as Renn) was crushed to -