The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-12
NAYS STRANCLNC
 SOVIET FORCES
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Continued from Page D \ offensive in the Tula district were described as untrue" and Russian claims of heavy street fighting in Kalinin, north of Moscow, were de. nied,
 Red armies In the Crimea were described as trapped and an auth. orlzed military spokesman said that the Russian position at Kerch had grown more serious during the past 24 hours. The high command said today that a Ger'nN1 push had taken German and RuEnAnian troops to the sea coast near Kerch, thus blocking part of the Kerch Straits south of the city.
 A spokesman said that for the past 10 days the Russians have been taking troops from Kerch to the Caucasus under steady German aerial bomhardment.
 The high command gave no de- tails of the situation on the Mos- COW front except to report on the operation against Red cavalry near T1lla. This. operation, Q military spokesman said, waS of local :la- tSlre.
 The claim of the high command followed within 6 few hours re- ports by NaEi sources that there has been virtually no important change in position on the Moscow sector for the past three weeks.
 (Moscow reports admitted heavy fighting in the Tula SectorJ
 The high command said the 6ee- mans took numerous" prisoners and captured 91 guns in the er- counter with the Russian cavalry forces.
 Counter Attack Stopped The high commands report said the success was achieved in an eIl- veloping attack.
 (Radio Berlin, as heard by the United Press listening post in New York, said that in one sector of the Moscow front Russian co1H1s ter-attack was held off and that Nazi troops had attacked the So. viet forces and inflicted heavy loss- es upon themJ
 The high command reported ara- other attempt by the Soviet forces at Leningrad to break through the Na1i lines of encirclement.
 The latest effort was made by what the high command described as assembled forces. It claimed the Germans repulsed the Russians with heaviest losses.
 In the Leningrad battle, said the high command, n of IT attacking Russian tanks were destroyed. Seven of these were the heavy 55 or 60 ton Soviet monsters.
 On the Crimean front, the high command said German and Ru- manian troops have reached the coast south of Kerch in sharp bat- ties with Soviet rear guard forces.
 The air force was said to have carried out heavy bombardmentS of the harborS of SevaStopol, Kerch and Anapa on the Caucasus side of the Kerchanski Straits.
 The air force carried out heavy day and night attacks upon Moscow, the high command reported, scoring direct hits on railroad installations which caused heavy damage. At. taclks were also directed at 0orlc, big Russian industrial center 20O miles east of Moscow.
 Last Miles Difficult Writing of the Moscow battle, Naxl reporters admitted that "the last 100 kilometers (H2.1 miles) to the Kremlin are particularly difficult"
 Accounts of NaA propaganda com pany reports, military 11ewspapermen who serve in the field with the German forces, asserted that the terrain before Moscow was "al11ost impossible" and strewn with Zlou- sands upon thousands of land mines.
 Naples Is Attacked
 Rome, Nov. i2-(UP)--Waves of British bombers attacked Naples again last night, dropping explosive and incendiary bombs which dam aged civilian property, killed six persons and wounded 30, the Italian high command said today.
 The communiqueS said the raid. CTS started fires which were quick ly controlled"
 Frenchmen in Prison Vichy, Nov. 12--(UP)-Gen Mair- ice Gamelin and former Premier Edouard Daladier and Leon Blum today started to Portalet prison, high in the Pyrenees, where they are to be held in indefinite custody on "war guilt" charges.
 Roosevelt Slapped
 Berlin, Nov. 12-CUP)-Fi Finland,s s rejection of United States request that she cease hostilities constitutes "a fitting slap in the face to the hys- terical old man in the White House." an authorized German spokesman said today. 1Tha efHAlkaeY94aH0 9atd t1aA VYSalknS