Evening star., 1941-08-08
Enemy Commander
And 10000 Troops
Declared Captured
By the Associated Press.

oy tHe hSooSistcu EFcSss
Adolf Hitler's high command
reported today that German
troops knitting deep into the low
er Ukraine had annihilated a
Red Army force trapped south
east of Uman, 125 miles south of
Kiev, capturing more than 10000
prisoners and the supreme COM
mander of the Russian 9Th Army.
Earlier unofficial Nazi reports said
Kiev, the Ukraine capital, had been
surrounded. But the high command
report indicated the main German
thrust was directed at cutting of
the Black Sea port of Odessa, some
140 miles below Uman.
While the Germans pictured their
armies as plunging headlong against
wobbling Soviet defenses, Russias
Marshal Semeon Timoshenko voiced
new note of confidence in this
appeal to peoples In German-oc-
cupied territories:
Join your comrades and fight,
starve, shoot and blow up the Ger
mans and help the Red Army rout
Hltler's dogs. Spill blood for blood
death for death. for the hour of
victory is near"
Wesenberg Reported Taken.
In the north, the Nazi high COM
mand said German columns driving
toward Leningrad had captured
Wesenberg, 6S miles southeast of the
Ole Czarist capital, and penetrated
to the Gulf of Finland.
If true. this would indicate that
the Russian-held capital of Estonia
Tallin, is cut off by land. 1t would
mean. too, that the Russian Baltic
f1eet was in jeopardy from German
guns pressing toward its big base at
Kronstadt.
German reports said fighting was
in progress within Is miles OF Tai
linn.
Nazi dispatches indicated that
the whole northwest part OF Es-
tonia, bounded by tidewater on two
sldes. was surrounded by German
troops on the two other sides.
Further Progress Reported.
Hitler's field headquarters also
declared that German and Finnish
troops driving on Leningrad from
the north, IN giant squeeze ma
neuver, were making further sue
cessful progress
Authoritative sources in London
said German drive in the Ukraine
aimed at cutting of Odessa appears
to be making headway, and said the
main Odessa -Kiev railway had been
cut and a subsidiary line threat
ened.
The Soviet high command. ON
cially labelling Hitler's claims of vast
successes as Arabian fairy tales, +"
declared the 4s-day -old struggle had
cost the Germans more than 1900.
900 men against 600 900 Soviet losses.
and termed the blitzkrieg a COM
plete failure.
According to Soviet figures, the
ratio Of Nazi losses would be nearly
81, or about the normal toll for
an attacking army.
Fierce Overnight Fighting.
Russian military dispatches again
reported fierce overnight fighting
in the familiar sectors OF Kakisal-
mi, IS miles north OF Leningrad.
Smolensk, 230 miles west of Moscow:
Bel Tserkov, so miles southwest of
klev, and in Estonia.
= The Soviet high command, coun-
tering Nazi claims of having broken
the Stain Line, declared that
actually no such line of fortifica-
tions ever existed and that the fic-
tion Of vast Russian defense works
comparable to Frances Maginot
Line was invented by the Germans
to justify their tremendous losses.
Certainly the Soviet government
with time created some Notifications
where 1t was necessary" the Rus
sian information bureau said. How
ever, no special (Stalin) line exists
or ever existed. The line was in
vented by the Germans to justify
their tremendous losses, which are
(See RUSSIA, Page A-3D