Evening star., 1941-08-10
Red Armies Position
In Ukraine Untenab|e
Germans Declare
New Victories Reported,
Bringing Prisoner Count
To More Than Million
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. Sunday, Aug. 10.-The
position of the Russian Armies fight
ing in the Ukraine has become
untenable, informed German sources
said early today as official reports
told of new victories in the drive
on this important southern front,
bringing the German count of Red
prisoners to more than 100000.
Declaring the Russians had SUI
fered crushing blow in the enclr-
clement battle south of Uman re-
ported earlier in the week, high
German sources said they thought
the Soviet forces now would soon
have to yield that part of Ukranian
territory east of the Dnieper River
bend. including the Black Sea Coast
and its large port of Odessa.
Although German war reports
claimed destruction of Soviet divi-
sions by the dozens, they said that
the Russians were pouring a SEEM
ingly endless stream of millions OF
men into new bloody battles along
viz IL VIII
Softening of Resistance.
Germans said, however, there was
marked softening of resistance
and that the great battles of the
last seven weeks in which Russian
soldiers stood and accepted annihi-
lation were paying increasing divi-
dends for German arms now cutting
deep slices into the Ukraine and
Central fronts.
The German count of prisoners
mounted to more than a million
1036.000-with the wiping out of
an encircled unit at Roslavl sc
miles southeast of Smolensk, as re-
ported by the high command.
Military commentators predicted
decisions "of the broadcast scope
in the Ukraine where the high COM
mand also announced the capture
of Korosten, 80 miles northwest of
Kiev, one of the keys to the defense
of that capital.
In the north the German Luft-
waite was reported peppering every
thing af1oat in an offensive which
Germans compared with those at
Dunkerque, Greece and Crete. to
prevent Russians fighting with their
backs to the Baltic, from executing
q successful evacuation of Estonia
Wedge Apparently Widened.
The reported capture of $4,000
prisoners at Roslavl apparently
meant the Germans had widened
their wedge to a broad front aimed
at Moscow, 230 miles or less away
The Germans first reported this
force partly surrounded and partly
annihilated three days ago.
Large amounts of war booty. in
cluding $50 tanks and 359 cannon
were said to have been taken here.
Added to the Is divisions which
the Germans said were destroyed in
the Ukraine with Russian losses ot
100000 casualties and 100000 pris-
oners, the Nazis thus totaled within
II hours Soviet dead, wounded and
captured at 341 ,000
1t was in this sector that the
Germans reported the highest
tempo. claiming the capture OF
Korosten as a companion victory to
the occupation of Bel Tserkov, so
miles south of Kiev.
German speed troops. with the
help of Hungarians, were reported
py-passing Kiev, turning southeast
ward from Bel Tserkov to skirt the
west side of the broad Dnieper to-
ward the huge Soviet complex OF
steel making. coal and ore mining
and power producing at Dnepro-
petrovsk.
First Weakening.
This industrial center in the broad
bend of the Dnieper is 240 miles
southeast of Kiev and almost the
same distance east of Uman, where
German forces from Bessarabia took
part in the battle of encirclement
which resulted in wiping out of the
25 divisions.
Germans said that it was in this
gigantic battle for the broad plateau
of wheat and mineral producing
lands between the Dnieper, Dniestel
and the Black Sea that Russian
forces we're first to really weaken.
The strongly fortified Leningrao
sector, with its wooded countryside
numerous lakes and spirited defense
however, appeared to be giving the
Germans difficulties.
However. the Germans claimed tc
have cut off the defenders ir
Estonia from Leningrad, and to be
making it difficult for them to
evacuate in the few ships available
The sinking of Russian destroyer
and patrol boat in the Gulf of Fin
land was reported.
Berlin Raided Again.
An enemy" raiding force 'identl-
fed as Russian by the British again
visited Berlin Friday night, but the
high command said the planes were
repelled. while other raiders inflicted
losses among civilians at Hamburg
and Kiel.
The Germans said they again had
raided Suez and airports and harbors
In eastern and southern England.
D.NB. said an S,000-ton freighter
at anchor at the southern outlet of
the SueZ Canal was sunk and that
a light cruiser was damaged. 1t
added that at Ismalia, inland canal
point fuel tanks. anti-aircraft guns
searchlight batteries, barracks and
hangers were attacked on the air.
port, with particular heavy damage
inflicted among buildings.
Other targets in the Eastern Med
iterranean, the news agency said
included Alexandria, Port Said and
Jaffa.