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toward safety. The city was bombed
in brief morning air raid following
an overnight attack.
Red Star declared the Red Army's
position the most critical of the war,
and a high-ranking neutral observer
in London commented:
Hitler for the first time in two
years of war has thrown every avail
able gun and tank into one attack.
If he fails to take Moscow or destroy
the Russian armies in the present
drive-and he well may fail-Ger-
many is finished until spring and
might we'll have lost the war"
Fiercest Struggle Near wanna.
The fiercest struggle of the war
appeared to be concentrated in the
direction of Vyazma, 125 miles from
Moscow. There the Germans had
massed their greatest force, aiming
to march straight down the Ma
poleonic highway from Smolensk,
while their fanking attacks at Kali
min and in the Bryansk and Orel
sectors on the south sought TO turn
the frontal defenses.
Information in Moscow was that
the Germans had not yet reached
Borodino, 10 miles west of the. capt.
tai and scene of the last great battle
before Napoleon occupied Moscow in
1912.
Authoritative quarters in London
said heavy fighting appeared to be
going on about Mozhaisk, but so
miles from Moscow's outskirts, with
the Germans still unable to take the
town.
Hitler is losing the war on the
road to Moscow. For him this road
must be the road of death" declared
a Russian broadcast relayed to New
York by the British Broadcasting
Corp. The broadcast said from
the east new units have arrived" to
join the Russian forces.
Red Star indicated that in some
sectors the onset of winter was as
sisting the Germans.
THE cold, which set in recently,
permits enemy scouts to act not only
along the highways, but also the
dirt roads," said the newspaper.
The Germans are sending indi-
vidual tanks for reconnaissance with
small group of motorcycles or cav
airy squads equipped with anti-tank
guns, Red Star said.
Strong Counterattacks.
German military spokesmen said
their forces were squeezing Moscow
tighter, but reported strong Red
Army counterattacks at the north
ern and southern f1anks of the front
to relieve the German pressure on
the capital.
The Russians were said to have
hurled their heaviest tanks into
powerful counterthrust ON the
southern flank. In the north, Ger
man spokesmen said, the Russians
were beaten back after a strong at
tempt to fight their way across a
lake In a no-man's-land between
the battle lines.
Red Star declared the Germans
were determined to take Moscow at
any cost, but pledged anew that it
would be saved, however fierce the
onset.
Nazis Reported Stopped.
Reuters said in a Moscow dispatch
to London that the German advance
east of Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov,
has been stopped. Mariupol is 100
miles west of Rostov, which lies at
the mouth of the industrial Don
Valley. ..
Russian forces managed to with
draw and establish themselves in
new positions, the agency said, and
here it was reported the Germans
suffered heavier losses than before
Mariupol itself
Germans are being forced to make
new preparations before they can
launch a fresh attack, Reuters said
Reuters also quoted the Moscow
radio as reporting that Soviet forces