The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-25
Russians, Germans In
 Most Bloody Battle
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N0NAbAAAANA broke up two Rumanian divisions md drove them "a considerable dis tance" Inck from the besieged Black sea port in Q coyunter-attack in which Red fleet marines participa- 6sd.
 In Climatic Phase
 Dispatches from Berlin and Mos- oow indicated that the battle of Eeningrad, now in @ climatic phase, is unprecedented in ferocity. The Russians admitted Nszi pressue on their northern metropolis is con- stantly rising despite Soviet counter attacks by tanks, bayonet-armed Infantry, cavalry, low-flying air- HlaneS and armored trains.
 The Russian six-mile advance against the Nazi besiegers of Lenln- grad, 1t was noted, was 8 local op- eration but indicated that the three to four million Soviet fighters and civilians in the Leningrad area have not lost their offensive punch. The action was described as taking place over body-littered fields.
 @ The Soviet information issued a formal denial of Nazi claims that n Russian warships and merchant ships have been sunk or damaged th the past few days and claimed, Instead, that IA German warships and transports have been sunk and 10 damaged.
 The British reported that @ Ger man force of 10000 men had been detached from the main Nazi drive ih the Ukraine to attack the nar- TOW land gateway which attaches the Crimean peninsula to the Rus- sian mainland.
 {. Berlin reported that squadrons of etuka planes are leading the Crimea Mttack, blasting relentlesSly at high- Ways, railroads and defense posi- lions leading down into the penia- Dula.
 The strength of crimea's defenses Is not known but it is believed that Marshal Semyon Budenny rein- forced the Crimea garrisons with troops from his southern army be- fore the Nazi advance cut Crimea's land communications. Troops also may have been brought in by way of the Black sea.
 Naval Base in Danger
 7 The big Russian Black sea naval base of Sevastapol would fall into German hands If the Nazis sue- ceeded in overrunning Crimea. Large naval stations and shipbulld- ing yards also are located on the peninsula and the Germans would obtain an advance base for striking across the Black sea and to the Georgian coast and the Batum- Baku oil region.
 " The attack on Leningrad appeared to be near climax. London be- lieved that the honors were about even in the heavy fighting thus far but believed the Germans may have an advantage in reserves of fresh troonE which can be brought up to attack after the Soviet defenders begin to weaken.
 Moscow reported that all German have been repulsed but Berlin claimed that Nazi troops are driv- attacks on the great northern city ing closer and closer to the city. Their latest success was said to be the capture of Peterhof, 18ia miles west of the city almost directly op- posite the Soviet naval base of Kronstadt in the Gulf of Finland
 Stukas, Berlin said, are leading the Leningrad attack as well as that on CrimO@. Nazi sources made no prediction on when Leningrad's fall might be expected. The battle now has been raging for three weeks with heavy casualties apparent on both sides.
 In Berlin 1t was said that no ul- timatum for Leningrad,s surrender is expected to be delivered. The German view was that the Russians have made clear their determina- ton to defend the city to the last and that, therefore, the city will have to take the consequences.
 The Germans claimed that some sections of the Leningrad-Mur- snanSk railroad now are in Finnish hands and that terrific endeavors Of Russian troops eneircled east of Kiev to break out of the Nazi ring have again been thwarted in bloody lighting The staff of the 5th and 2lst Russian armies was said to have been wiped out.