The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-04
London Reports Say Nazl4 Have Failed to Break
 Lines I5,O0O GERMAN
 CASUALTIES HElSTE9 Berlin Reports Instance OE Wiping Out 1000 Red
 Landing Troops
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Edit0E4

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 The Red Army answered Adolf Hitler's claims of vic- tory today with reports of battering counter-attacks on scattered fronts from Mur- mansk to the Black Sea, ia- cluding a four day offensive that resulted in the recapture of 30 villages in defense of the vital Ukraine industrial area.
 The southern front offensive. which appeared to be part of large- scale Russian operations to check the German drive on the Donetn Basin, was reported in war dispatch- es 10 Moscow to have decirnated three Rumanian calvary regiments comprising some 5000 men.
 For the time being, both London and Moscow reported that the East- ern front appeared to be holding back the Nazi onslaught although London dispatches indicated that the Germans were attempting to strike through north of Kharkoy and again stab directly at Moscow--probably the gigantic" operation Hitler men- toned in his speech.
 Aim At KurSk
 Reports of these operations were indirect and vague but there were indications that the Germans were aiming at the Kursk or Ogel sectors between the key Donets Basin city of Kharkov and Moscow, where they suffered c severe defeat last month but where they would Do able t0 sweep either north toward Moscow or south around the Donets area 1a successful.
 Latest London military reports said that the Germans did not seem to have broken through at any iraS portant point and that the Russian@ apparently had started 6 counters attack of c local, nature from the Melitopol sector of the far south ta offset the German drive into tfa istainuS leading to the Crimea.
 15,000 Casualties
 About i5,000 German casualties were reported in these southern operations in the last few days. while Moscow said that 800 Gerguas9 armored cars and 750 soldiers had been wiped out in one clash. Ted parachutist were reported taking q leading role in these local counter blows against the Germans,
 On the Arctic coast. the German drive toward Murmansk was aGaiss repulsed with a counter attack thai reportedly wiped out two regiments
 The German corlmunique madd no specific claims regarding the eastern front but repeated Hitler's statement that gigantic operations were in progress and developing &C., cording plan. The Luftwaffe was reported to have renewed attacks on Moscow and Leningrad, while ths British air force was bombing the railroad town of Cantanzano on the toe of the Italian boot and hitting at Nazi targets in the occupied areas of northwest Europe.
 2,OOO Reds Wiped Out
 The German official agency re- ported that the operations against Leningrad continued on an intense scale and said that 2OOO Russian troops attempting to land at Streln- ja, less than 10 miles from the out skirts of Leningrad on the Bay of Kronstadt had been wiped out"
 The sinking of the eighth American-owned ship since the war began-the I. c. White which was torpedoed off Brazil-was still the subject of some mystery, although there were reports that S5 of the crew had been rescued. EigfteeS
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