Evening star., 1941-08-11
Nazis Ease Claims;
Report Foe Retreats
In Southern Ukraine
Other Sources Insist
Huge Area Is us Good
As Lost by Russio

were reported today in a taciturn
communique from Adolf Hitler's
headquarters.
The war bulletin thus reverted to
terse generality after its voluminous
claims last week. Other German
sources, however, insisted the
entire Dnieper bend-embracing
thousands of square miles of fertile
Ukrainian plateau-was as good as
lost by Russia.
German and Allied troops are
considerably nearer" the Black Sea-,
D.N.B. said. The Germans have
been thrusting eastward and south
ward on one arm of their push into
the Ukraine, evidently to cut of
Russia's important southern coast,
particularly the port of Odessa.
On the northern front, D. N. B.
said the l80th Soviet light infantry
division had been wiped out South
of Lake linen, east of Soltsi, which
Is about 120 miles south of Lenin-
grad. The Russians were COM
pletely annihilated," the agency
said.
D.NB. said that in thrust into
the Arctic German naval forces
destroyed a Russian patrol boat
and a submarine sank Soviet de-
stroyer.
Reports of Destructive Blows.
Confidence that Hitler'S armies
have cut solidly into the grainfields
fol
destructive German blows against
the Red Army in the southwest. ,
This optimistic outlook was based
on accounts of success after success
by Field Marshal Gerd Won Rund-
stedt's German armies over Soviet
forces of Marshal Semeon M. Bud
yenny, Red Army commander there.
1T still is an open question how
far the Soviets will be able to COM
plete their evacuation OF this area
without running into annlhllatlon
of themselves" said the commentary
Dienst aus Deutschland, which has
close WilhelmstrasSe connections.
Great masses of the Budyenny
army, it is we'll known, already nave
been destroyed" Dienst added.
(Well-informed military sources
in Ankara. Turkey, said Germany
was using 10 divisions in her drive
south of Kiev, making more than
1OO00O men pressing toward Dne-
propetrovsk0
While admitting that things were
hottest in the grain-rich Ukraine,
German sources insisted that more
interesting military developments
there did not mean that pressure on
Moscow and Leningrad in any way
had let up.
Hit on Kremlin Claimed.
DNB. made much of Saturday
nights air attack on Moscow, where
II said a direct hit was scored on the
Kremlin as nearly 100 planes streWed
heavy explosives and fire bombs by
the thousands in the biggest raid
vet on the Soviet capital.
Air raiders approaching from the
northeast again thrust at Berlin,
and the Luftwaffe again pounded
Moscow in an overnight exchange
of air blows, the high command
reported today.
Two of the unidentified enemy
planes" we're shot down and the
attempt to penetrate Berlin's air de-
fenses was repelled by anti-aircraft
fire. the communique said. D.N.B.
called the raid fully Ineffective"
(The direction from which the
attack came indicated that the
raiders were Russian. Soviet
planes attacked Berlin twice last
week.
At Moscow tons of German high
explosives and incendiary bombs,
the war bulletin said, fell partic-
ularly on ornaments plants in the
eastern and northwestern parts OF
the city.
(The Russians reported the
Germans attempted another mass
raid on Moscow last night and
early today and acknowledged
there were dead and injured
but contended that military tar
gets were not touched.)
10000 Planes Declared Destroyed.
In it's Sunday communique the
high command said more than TO-
900 Russian planes were destroyed,
including those on the Finnish
front, since the war with Russia
began June %.
Striking westward, today's war
bulletin said, the Luftwffe again
raided the English and Scottish east
coasts by night.
A German navy blockade breaker"
presumably an auxiliary warship)
co-operated with anti-aircraft, pa
troll boats and a minesWeeper in
shooting down a total of II British
planes in the English Channel area
yesterday, the high command said
today. The blockade breaker" got
four planes, anti-aircraft, 10 planes;
patrolboats, 2, and minesweeper,
one plane, communique an
nounced.
AS a counterpart to the constant
air blows against Britain's western
sea routes, the high command re-
ported a new attack on the Suez
Canal area, back door to the Medi-
terranean which has appeared with
increasing regularity as Luftwaf1e
target.
German planes were said to have
flown in reconnaissance flights
along the coast of Scotland last
night and to have bombed British
coastal sections, including the
Aberdeen region.
A German long-range plane was
reported by DN.B. today to have
sunk an 18,000-ton British tanker
from a convoy in the open Atlantic
about 300 miles off Southern Spain
TObruk Is Attacked.
Informed Germans said German
and italian dive bombers attacked
the north Libyan port of Tobruk
damaging ships and quays and 81
kencing three anti-aircraft batteries
yesterday.
German bombers were reported tc
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