The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-30
RED ARMY HURLS
 BACK GERMANS

(Contlnued from Page D - man aircraft were shot down Or Sunday during battles as compared to 2i Russian panes lost.
 "On June 2oth, the enemy per. Bistently and repeatedly tried tC cross the border on the Kareliar fsthmus," the communique said, "bui invariably was forced to withdraw with great losses owing to the firC an dthe counter-attacks of ouI troops
 Tn the Kexholm direction, or enemy force Of upwards of two in. fantry battallons of Germans thrice launched an attack against positions held by our troops. Leaving 300 kill. cd on the battlefield, the enemy retreated behind the border.
 On the same day in the CiipurI direction, the enemy tried to land from the sea. tVilpuri is the famous gateway between Russia and Scan. dinavia and was seized by Russia iT the 1889 war with Pinand) In 6 decisive action, our troops destroy. cd the enemy units while landing on the shore."
 Tn regard to operations on tho central and southern fronts and fl, the far north, where . German drive toward the big Arctic port oi Murmansk was reported, the com. iflunique said:
 Stubborn Fighting
 Tn the course of the night (Sun. day) our troops continued stubborn fighting in the directions Of Mur- fTlanSk, Dvinsk, Minsk, and Luck.
 Tn other directions and secors oi the front, there occurred night scouting and frequent rc.groupinp of troops and artillery ducis."
 The early morning communiquC had reported tho Russians throwing back ell derman-F Finnish attacks on a new 600-nie front in Finland and said that the Russians were fight. ing Stoutiy and with success In fer. ocious battles with German tanks and motorized infantry on the White Russia and Ukraine fronts.
 Finnish German troops launched an offensive yesterday along the entire Finnish frontier from the Barents Sea to the Gulf Of Finland only to be hurled back with heavy losses, 1t was asserted.
 Implicitly admitting Thkruss by German tank forces and storm troops into Minsk area. teh com. Tnunique said the Russians had coun tered~attacked with success and had cut of advanced German motorized and mechanical forces.
 Russian forces, according to the communique checked the German motorized and infantry forces on the da-Wolkowysk line, about % miles from Minsk.
 Tank Division Lost
 German prisoners were quoted that a1 entire German tank divi- sion had been annihilated in fight. ing near Lida.
 tThe communique indicated plainly that though the Germans had pushed tank and troop columns deep into the Lithuania. .Latvia front and might have thrust through to the Minsk area there were large, hard-fighting Russian forces well on the Polish side of the old frontier. The question was whether, as the Germans said, the Red army had closed in behind the advanced German units and iso- lated them from the motorized in. fantry on whose advance they de. pend)
 A gigantic battle of massed tanks was still in progress on the Luck front.
 Germany sent in new tank units in an attempt to break through in the directions of Novograd Vol- ynsk and Shepetovka regions, the communique admitted, but 1t said successive and continuous counter attacks by Russian tank troops and aircraft resulted in the rout of the mulk of the German tank and mo- torized units.
 (The communique indicated that the German tanks had succeeded in breaking through in the Luck area on the Polish side of this Ukrainian front but that the main Russian forces held their line Again 1t was question which of the advanced forces was isolated)
 Deride German Story
 The communique derided tht fan-fared German high command communiques of yesterday anc gave a completely different picture Of what had happened in the first week of the war.
 The Germans said they captured or destroyed more than 2,00O Rus sian tanks, 600 guns, and more thar 4OOO planes, and took prisoner more than 10000 Red army men with the loss of 150 German plane! and an unspecified numebr o tanks, guns and prisoners.
 We find 1t embarrassing even tt deny this manifest lie and boastfu humbug," the communique said.