The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-02
Smashing Triurnphs Of Reds On Eastern Front
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 Leningrad The Russians re- captured six strategic positions in counter-attacks.
 The Germans have "left RoStov far behind" as hard-chargIng Rus sion troops supported by Cossack cavalry and the air force drove them westward, Moscow said.
 Hit Entire Nazl Army
 The Soviet forces arc attacking General Ewald von Kleist's entire southern army from east, north and west and breaking 1t Into Fragments, special dispatches claimed.
 The Germans are now more than 90 miles from Rostov, the official Russian News Agency TasS, said, and the pursuit continues. In some places the Germans have fled so precipitously they have been forced to leave small arms rifles and machine guns - behind, indicating they have not had time to marshal their forces for an orderly retreat, the Russians claimed.
 Every day the Russians occupy more villages on the southern front although German resistance is be- coming more stubborn, ISvestia rec ported. At village "B," the Germans concentrated infantry, artillery and tanks to cover the retreat, but after Q day and night of fighting, the Rus sianS broke tic defenses and the Germans retreated again, abandon ing 20 tanks, scores of trucks, guns and other equipment,
 Pravdas correspondent on the Lenlngrad front reported that the Russians occupied six localities there although retreating German troops were doing their utmost" to regain lost positions.
 The bittereSt fighting apparently was on the southwest and western fronts. The enemy launched two of: fensives In the Kiln and Volokolamsk sectors, trying to surround Russian lines from the northeast and north- west, but the attacks were repulsed. The enemy also tried to surround village "K," but failed, Russian sources claimed.
 Route Achievements
 On one sector of the west front the Soviets routed reinforced enemy battalions and captured I4 mine throwers, three machine guns, one large gun, 75 cases of cartridges, and l60 machine gun belts. To the south- west, Russian cavalry outsted the enemy from village "O," annihilated 400 Germans and captured three guns, Moscow said
 Pravda reported heavy battles iIl the Volokoamsk sector, 60 miles northwest of Moscow, and said a German offensive there was checked with heavy losses although the en- emy eventually captured one vil- lage.
 In area IS" (probably on the Volokolamsk sector) the Germans concentrated infantry and built 6 hundred anti-tank gun and machine gun pits, but last night Russian troops, using BritiS htanks, rushed a village there and inflicted heavy losses after fierce fighting, Tass said
 RFain was reported falling on the Moscow front, turning battlefields into morasses, and there were indi. cations of a thaw before the hard est part of the winter sets in.
 A Rostov dispatch broadcast by radio Kuibyshev said:
 Remnants of the German army are not only being hctly pursued but are being broken up. Their road oi retreat is in process of being cut of There remains but one road open te the Germans. That is into the sea Azov, to their doom."
 28 Miles In Days
 One Russian force, according to the dispatch, has advanced 28 miles in three days and has won special commendation from Marshal Sem- yon Timoshenko, commanding the Russian southern armies.
 The German rear guard, 1t said, is being broken as 1t seeks to impede the Russian advance, fighting fierce ly from every hill, using artillery and trench mortars.
 Russian troops, trained for such fighting, are creeping around to the rear of German strong points and rushing them with the bayonet and hand grenedes, the dispatch said.
 Despite the determined attempts of the rear guard to stand, British advices, broadcast from London and heard by the United Press New York listening post. said the Ger man retreat was now so precipitate that at times the Russian could not establish contact with the Germans and that the Germans no longer had time to destroy their ilnmobile equipment before they fled.)
 Special dispatches said the Rus sians now held the initiative over many miles of the southern front and that in addition to pursuing the Germans and slashing at their northern flank were seeking to cut of their retreat.
 The official Soviet information bureau, describing the German re- treat as a rout. and reporting that the Russian advance continued un- checked, said that the Russians had captured ll8 tanks, 2l0 field guns. l78 mine throwers, 3O6 machine guns, 4.050 rifles, e71 trucks and a large quantity of other arms and military supplies.
 Figures are incomplete because it is impossible to count all trophies while the offensive is at its height" comnunique said.
 "In seven days operations in the Rostov area our planes and anti- aircraft guns have downed l02 ene- my planes"
 Hn Deadly Pocket
 A special dispatch to the Moscow newspaper Pravda said: