Evening star., 1941-12-01
kozis' Attempt to
Re-estubIish Line
Declared Thworted
D. the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Dec. 1-Severely
battered German troops, hurled
back through village after vii
lage in a retreat from RoStOv
that has become the biggest Nazi
reversal of the Russian cam
paign, have been unable to stem
the Red Army's counterdrive and
are in danger of being cut of by
a new thrust from the north, the
Moscow radio declared today.
Quoting dispatches to Pravda from
the southern front, the broadcast
said the new Soviet thrust developed
yesterday morning in the she'll
pocked Donets Basin northwest of
Rostov. where the advance might
open a corridor to the Sea OF Azov
which would cut off the hotly-en-
gagged German rear guard.
The report to Pravda declared
hard riding Russian cavalrymen,
first to carry the Red banner back
into Rostov, kept up their charge
for miles beyond the city and broke
up repeated German attempts to
form new line.
l4-Nile Advance Reported.
Other Red Army units, the Pravda
correspondent reported. ousted the
Germans from towns identified as
"B" and k along with many
other large and small villages. in a
14-mile advance over fields strewn
with Nazi dead and Uttered with
the abandoned wreckage of German
tanks and guns.
These advances, the Russians de-
clared. hurled the Nazis back to
Taganrog, 40 miles west of Rostov,
then kept them on the retreat along
the road to Mariupol, another go
miles TO the west.
The British radio reported
that the German commander in
the south. Field Marshal EWald
Won Klienst. had moved his head
quarters back to Mariupol two
days ago and now was on the
move again farther to the rear.
&C. B. S. quoted the radio as
sewing that the second Russian
counterdrive was forcing Axis
troops in the Donets back toward
industrial Stalino, 100 miles
northwest of Rostov.
In Berlin today a military
spokesman said RoStov was evac-
uated by German troops because
of the fighting with civilians with
resulting unnecessary losses" and
to take more favorable positions
to meet the Russian assault. He
asserted the Germans in the Ros-
tov area were faced by Russian
forces greatly superior in num-
berl
Four Divisions Broken Up.
Four Nazi divisions have been
broken up the Moscow radio said,
and the known German casualties in
the Southern fighting were put at
10000.
IN the battle for Moscow were said
to have put IS villages and towns
back under the Red banner and
6ulled the steel prongs of the Ger
man offensive against the capital.
German soldiers in advance
units battling toward the Russian
capital now can see Moscow
with the aid of good field
glasses" a German military
spokesman declared in Berlin
tonight.
The spokesman did not say on
what part of the curving Mos
COW front this approach had
been made. but previous reports
indicated German forces were
nearest on roads running into
Moscow from the west and north
weStD
Soviet troops operating northwest
of Tula, in the fighting zone be-
tween that city and MOSCOW, lOO
miles to the north. are driving the
Germans back with counterattacks.
a correspondent of the Moscow
newspaper Pravda reported.
The correspondent added that
Russian offenSives on the Kallnln
front 90 miles northwest of Moscow
were growing more intense and the
Germans were throwing in fresh
troops in an attempt to halt the
Soviets.
The Russians gave this picture OF
the Southern front action:
The reinforced army of Marshal
6emeon Timoshenko rolled back the
divisions of German Field Marshal
Ewald Won Kleist. blasting them
from Rostov, which the Germans
claimed to have captured Novem-
ber %.
The Germans fell back on Tagan-
since October 10.
But. the Russians added, the road
from Rostov to Taganrog has beer
cleared of the invaders and Field
Marshal Won Kleist himself has fed
to Mariupol.
German soldiers were said to be
hurrying toward Mariupol before
the Timoshenko forces.
Russian accounts declared Red
counterstrokes on the Moscow front
recaptured IA villages in the Stalino-
gorsk sector, 12C miles southeast of
Moscow and the point of the great
est advance eastward of the German
encirclement threat against the Rus
sian capital.
20 Taken in Another Area.
These accounts also said 20 VII
lages were recaptured in another
sector and the Germans were forced
to give up the town of *"
*" was not identified but 1t
could be the designation for
Kiln, so miles northwest of Mos
COW on the main Moscow-Lenln-
grad railroadD
That the Russian defense of Mos
COW had stiffened considerably was
indicated by government procla-
nation declaring Ito retreat for
more than one step is crime none
shall forgive"
.-- british tanks are playing a
considerable role in the defense