Evening star., 1941-07-10
Great Armies Seen
Locked Now in
Decisive Bottle
Ey the Associated Press.


BERLIN, July l0.-The Ger
nan high command kept details
If the fierce struggle with Soviet
Russia hidden again today, the
,hird in a row, with the general
statement that operations in
he east are progressing relent-
essly."
The German radio broadcast
high command claim that ITO
Russian warplanes were de-
stroyed on the eastern front yes
teroay and five heavy bunkers of
the Stain Line were taken after
bitter fighting"
This was the second straight
day in which the Berlin radio,
Immediately after reading the
high command communique,
broadcast what it called "addi-
tional military reports an
nounced by the high command
(Ihese were not contained in
the regular war bulletin, which
touched only briefly on the war in
Russia.
The broadcast. heard in New
York by c. B. s., credited the re-
ported capture of five Stain Line
bunkers to one Nazi pioneer ten-
gineer) shock troop unit and said
German forces advancing against
the line Yesterday destroyed 123
Soviet panzers and put the rest
10 flight" in a hard battle with
strong Russian armored units.
CFifty-three of the airplanes
claimed were shot down. it said.
and the other 81 destroyed on the
ground
Decisive Battle Seen.
The feeling in Berlin today va,
hat the worlds two largest armies
we're now fighting a decisive battle
and the Lokal AnZeiger asserted
hat not until now have the great
masses of the armies come into de.
The only detail the communique
offered before turning to war on the
British and African fronts was Il
yesterdays unofficial repor'
hat Salla, fortified Russian towr
opposite Finland's eastern frontier
mad been captured.
German troops took the towr
assisted by encirclins
of Finnish troops, the
bulletin said. after crushing a Rus
sian division in battle lasting sew.
sral days.
Excellent Time for Silence.
The high commands apparent
calm was unperturbed and spokes-
men were not provoked to discussion
BY various reports. credited to mill.
tary circles in Vichy, of German
reverSeS in Russia.
All that was said of military de-
velopments was that German mill
tary leaders regard this as an excel.
ent time for silence which, it wa:
asserted, may last several days more
Similar stories were circulated by
enemy propagandists in previou.
campaigns. notably in Poland
France and Greece" an authorized
spokesman said.
Then, when the high command
finally chose to reveal the fact.
there was an entirely different
picture"
He asserted that peculiarities o
tactics in a new kind of war max,
it especially important for German.
to keep silent at this stage
German reports previously hat
pictured two spearheads being driver
against the Russians by the German
Army of the Baltic-one towart
Tallinn, capital of Estonia, and tn
other toward Leningrad, at the hea,
of the Gulf OF Finland.
Thrust Made at Railways.
Farther North, German forces op
Grating from Finland appeared to b.
aiming a thrust at rail communica
tions between Leningrad and Muir
mansk, vital railhead and ice-fre
port.
Interest in Berlin centered OF
these northern operations as n
word was forthcoming about activ
tiles in the central sector, wher
bitter fighting was reported in tn
drive toward Moscow by way o
Minsk and Smolensk.
The high command confined itsel
yesterday to the statement that tn
fighting was continuing on the entir
eastern front. The news agenc
D.N.B. announced the fall OF Viljand
and Parnu, in Estonia, as well q
Ostrov, on the Latvian-Russial
border.
The authoritative commentary
Dienst aus Dutschland, speaking o
the Arctic drive, said the German
troops had broken through tn,
Titowka heights Notifications afte
considerable difficulties since tn
(See BERLIN, Page ABB