Evening star., 1941-11-14
Russians Claim
Successes on
Entire Front
Situation Continues
Critical in Crimeo,
Soviet Declares
BY the Associated Press.

RuSsia's Red Armies claimed
the most extensive series of vic
tories in the war with Germany
today, covering every major
theater from RoStov london in
the far south to the frozen Arctic
regions of MurmanSk.
Only in the Crimea. by Soviet ac-
iCal.
Before Moscow the Red Armies,
pressing a furious counteroffenslve,
were reported to have stormed and
recaptured 20 villages in the past "a
hours in the Kalinin sector. and
German military dispatches admit
ted that the Russians were attacking
in considerable force" with tanks
and infantry.
In the battle Of Leningrad the
Soviet radio said Russian troops had
broken clear through Nazi siege lines
around the old Czarist capital. which
the Germans had said was virtually
sealed off from the rest OF the
U. S. S. r.
AT ROStov, guarding the northern
approach to the Caucasus. the Rus
slams said they had routed motor
lied division OF Hitler'S elite guards
The entire Nazi drive III that key
sector was reported all but stalled.
Tass. the Soviet news agency. re-
ported that tankled German shock
troops had been thrown back from
the outskirts of Tula. 100 miles
south Of MOSCOW. after bloody
two-veeks battle
The Germans were here yaSter-
day. Today only their corpses are
here" Tass said.
The news agency said the Ger
mans hurled Is consecutive tank
attacks at the little village OF Rode
zhesny, on the southern outskirts
Of Tula. and gained temporary
foothold before being smashed back
with heavy casualties.
German military dispatches said
the pace of battle on the freezing
Russian front had slowed TO yard
by-yard Nazi advance in the Crimea
and the bitterly contested central
front.
The Crimean fighting was summed
up in Berlin as a gradual tightening
of the German grip on Sevastopol
and Kerch. with fierce fighting
necessary for every gain.
At one place on the central front.
presumably in the general region of
Moscow. a Russian advance in con-
siderable force. supported by tanks,
was reported in the German dis
patches They said. however. the
German Army was forging ahead
Village by village" sometimes fight
ing hand to hand with the Russians.
Soviet dispatches reported a Sc
ries of smashing counter blows at
Kalinin. 9o miles northwest OF Mos
COW. at MaloyaroSlavets. s. miles
southwest Of the capital, and in the
far north around the Arctic port of
Murmansk.
The Soviet radio said the initiative
in the 43-day-old battle OF Moscow
had now definitely passed into Red
Army hands.
In the Crimea campaign. a bulle-
tin from Adolf Hitler's field head
quarters asserted that German
troops were in front Of Kerch,"
gateway to the Caucasus oil fields.,
with the city and harbor under the
fire of NaN artillery
Soviet reinforcements, some OF
them drawn from the Rostov-on-
Don sector, were reported racing to
defend the Caucasus coast against
a German drive across the narrow
Kerch Strait from the Crimea
Dispa tches to Red Star. the Soviet
Army newspaper. said Gen Gregory
K. Zhukov's central front armies
had driven the Germans from the
east bank OF the Nara River, in the
sector. and dis
lodged the Nazis from a fortified
height there in fierce hand o-hand
fighting.
On the Leningrad front. B. B. C.
quoted the Moscow radio as report
ing that Russian infantry. with
artillery and divebombing aircraft
support, stormed through the enemy
lines and broke through to the rear
in the face of strong resistance"
Tass said Russian troops in the
Arctic Murmansk zone had captured
several strategic heights and forced
the Germans to retreat several
kilometers
The Germans already took for
granted the capture of Kerch and
Sevastopol, the great Crimean base
for the Russian Black Sea feet, and
Berlin economists counted on the
seizure of two to three billion tons
Of untapped iron ore they said were
in the Kerch Peninsula.