Evening star., 1941-12-03
Germans Driven
Il 10 "a Miles,
Russians Claim
Nozis Thrown Back
In Z Moscow Front
Sectors, Reds Soy
n he Assnrlated Press.

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to "a miles on the blizzard-sVept
Moscow front today while in the
Ukraine the Russians declared that
"the panic stricken enemy was still
in headlong flight from RoStov-on-
Don
Quoting latest adyices from Mos
COW. the British radio said the Rus
slams had sent the panzer forces of
Col. Gen. Heinz Guderian spinning
in reverse.
A communique from Adolf Hit
lers field headquarters claimed freSh
gains in violent tank ana infantry
battles before Moscow. but the Rus
SLAMS said the Germans had been
thrown back in two key sectors and
generally painted a Frightening
picture of the two-month-old strug-
gle for the capital.
Germans Found Frozen.
In the Ukraine Soviet dispatches
said Red armies Countermarchlng
back through the Donets River in
dustrial basin were finding the
frozen bodies of Germans wrapped
in flimsy blankets. huddled in road
side bitches and that TO save them
selves from the bitter cold the
Nazis were fighting with suicidal
fury 10 hold villages where they
could find warmth and shelter.
German armored reinforcements
we're reported hurrylng along the
Mariupol road to combat the Rus
slams sweeping Counterofenslve.
which so far appeared to have
hurled the Germans back more than
IS miles from their farthest east
ward thrust to the Novocherkassk
region. 35 miles beyond Rostov. Ac-
Cordlng to Soviet reports. the Ger
mans are falling back somewhere
between Taganrog. 40 miles west of
RoStov. and MariupOl
Hitler sent Field Marshal Walther
Won BrauchitSch. commander in
chief OF the German Army. TO the
Black Sea front Yesterday to com
pletely overhaul strategy a British
Broadcastine Corp broadcast said
today quoting a report from Stock
holm
The broadcast. heard in New York
by the Columbia BrCadCasting Sys-
TEN. said the assignment Indicated
Hitlers anxiety over the pressure Of
the Red Army counter0ffenslve
which has driven the Germans back
from Rostov and his determination
TO stop the rout at all cost.
Mariupol is 100 miles west of
RoStov
Soviet front line dispatches said
the battered German forces under
Field Marshal ETald Won Kleist had
lost more than 81 900 men killed and
wounded in the running battle along
the shores of the Sea of Azov.
The Russian counterattaCk on the
Rostov front seems to be progress
ing very we'll and seems to have
been very we'll timed" an authorita-
tive source said.
Reds Claim Towns Retaken.
On the winter bound central
front, where the Germans asserted
their troops were within sight Of
Moscows towers. a bulletin from
Hitlers Headquarters said tank-led
Nazi infantry supported by dive
bombers cut fresh sWaths through
Soviet defense lines. 1t gave no de-
tails
BY contrast. the Russians SAID
Gen. Gregory K. Zhukovs armies
recaptured three villages in the
critical Mozhaisk sector. 81 miles
vest OF Moscow. and drove the Ger
mans out of several settlements in
the Stalinogorsk sector. l20 miles
southeast of the capital.
The enemy is retreatlng south
ward under the pressure of our cav
airy and tanks. said the newspaper
Pravda, referring to the Stalinogorsk
action.
Despite the bitter cold and snow
German spokesman declared that
at no point along the front have
We gone into winter quarters.
In the north. around long
beleaguered Leningrad, the Russians
said 1000 Germans had been killed
in two DAYS of battle in which Soviet
troops captured eight tanks and IA
field guns.
Dosged Pursuit by Reds.
A dogged pursuit of German
srmored and infantry forces fleeing
westward from Rostov, was reported
by Russians
The enemy sustained heavy losses
OF men and ornaments on the Ros-
tov sector of the front. where oul
troops continue to pursue the en-
emy," said communique broadcast
by the Moscow radio.
While the main body headed
along the coast it was reported tina
smaller columns were moving north
west to prevent congestion and a
the same time attempt to parry ,
slanting Soviet thrust intended t,
cut off the embattled rearguard.
Bitter battles in billiards. wer
pictured on the central front, ant
the Soviet government said German
attacks yesterday were beaten of
with heavy losses A German
armored unit cut off from its in
l2nTN support III lne MOIndlSk sec
tor was said to have lost Is OF it
3S tanks.
Berlin reports said Germal
Army corps destroyed l53 Russian
tanks and captured l9 cannon with
In a week of fighting before Moscow
Is Nazi Planes Claimed.
Thirteen German planes were Of
f1cially listed by the Russians as sho
down near Moscow yesterday. ap
parently indicating an increasin
Use OF aerial forces by Germany i
support of the revived central from
offensive.
The Soviet radio said the Russian
faced a serious and tense situation
in the Volokolamsk sector.
miles northwest of the capital
Finnish forces have occupied Ger
tain small islands on the Hang
archipelago near the Gulf of Fin
land naval base occupied by tn
Russians since March, 1910, a Hell
slnkt communique said.