Evening star., 1941-10-07
Nozis Claim Victory Over Reds
In Great New Battle in ukraine:
Germans Halted London Says
Violent Fighting on
Moscow Front Also
Is Reported
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Adolf Hitler's high command
claimed victory over the Rus
slams today in a great new battle
In the Ukraine north of the Sea
of AZov, but London military
quarters reported that the Ger
mans had been checked with
severe losses and that guns of
the Soviet Black Sea fleet were
heavily pounding the invaders.
Frontline dispatches to Red Star,
the Soviet Army newspaper, reported
a violent battle was raging on the
central moscow front, with Mar
shal Semeon Timoshenkos troops
striking fierce blows against German
armored wedges driven into the
Russian lines.
Soviet infantry, supported by
tanks and aviation, were reported to
have attacked heavy German troop
concentrations Immediately after a
long march, destroying 1913 tanks
and killing more than 1000 Nazis in
three sectors.
Tank Column Ambushed
Red Star said Soviet tank bat
talon ambuShed a Nazi tank COL
umn southeast of Kiev, the German
held Ukraine capital, and smashed
seven tanks Bloody German losses
were reported here, as well.
On the northern front the Red
Army announced that Leningrads
defense guns had smashed l9 Ger
man earth-and- timber forts on the
approaches to the old Czarist capital,
silenced two artillery batteries and
put other Nazi siege weapons out of
action.
Masses of German troops were
said to have been dispersed by
Soviet fire.
A bulletin from Hitler's field
headquarters indicated that the
battle north of the Azov Sea was
part of the gigantic new develop
ments" which the Fuehrer himself
declared had begun last Wednesday.
German troops, shoulder to
shoulder with troops of the allied
countries, are pursuing the defeated
enemy" the Nazi communique said.
Motorized and tank units thrust
deep into the enemy retreating
columns
Earlier. the Russians, acknowledge
ing that the Germans had "Wedged
INTO our lines at an unSpecified
sector of the Moscow front, reported
that Soviet tanks and bombers had
destroyed "a Nazi tanks in fierce
counterbloWs.
Advices reaching London said the
Germans had suffered bloody casual
ties on the narrow Perekop Isthmus
in drive southwark into the
Crimea Peninsula, and that a Nazi
division had been halted at Ge-
nicheSk. on the northwest shores
of the Azov Sea, under shelling by
the Red Fleet.
Reported Progressing Slowly.
Two German columns have been
reported by authoritative London
sources to be progressing slowly
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sian resistance, from the Valdai
hills. 220 miles northwest of the
capital, and Roslavl. an equal dis
tance to the southwest. The Smo-
lensk zone, where Russians have
reported sustained counteroffen-
sives, apparently was bypassed in
between.
In Berlin the well-informed
Dienst aus Deutschland thus
summed up the German position on
the reports:
"All that Germans are willing to
admit is that the new operations
are of such a strategic magnitude
that they exceed everything else
achieved in the eastern campaign"
Positions of the defenders of be-
sieged Leningrad were represented
In Moscow as strong as ever.
A correspondent with the Finnish
Army on the Karelian Isthmus
however said miles-high clouds of
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