Evening star., 1941-10-12
Navy Seizes Nazis in Greenland;
Women Children Ordered Out Of
Moscow as Germans Press Closer
HitIer's Troops
Smashing Ahead
In 7 Sectors
By the ASSocia ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Russians acknowledged
officially today that the Red
Army guarding MoscoW-hard
hit and outnumbered-Was re
treating to new positions" closer
to the imperiled capital which
women and children we're order
ed to leave at once.
The most imminent threat ap-
parently was from the west, where
weight of numbers and the strength
Of relentless attack was carrying the
Germans ahead through the Vyazma
region, lbs miles from Moscow. The
Russians said the Germans also
were smashing closer to the capital
from the Orel sector, 220 miles to
the southwest.
German military SpokeSmen said
Nazi assault forces were pouring like
tide of destruction through the
crumbling Red Army center to
menace Moscow in one of the blood :
lest battles of the war.
But as the Russian campaign end =
ed its sixteenth week, and the Ger
mans sorely pressed the Red armies
in the Today -old offensive on Mos
COW, there was still no sign of Soviet
collapse in what Hitler declared
would be the last great, decisive
battle of this wear"
Frankly, German newspapers told
the people that their men would not
return from the front this winter,
and latter-week rumors and reports
that Germany had offered an armis-
tlce to the Russians appeared to have
dissolved in the red mists of his
tory's bloodiest struggle.
Reserves Hurled In.
The Soviet Sunday communioue
SAID in the Vyazma region the
enemy succeeded in pressing back
our troops" despite stubborn resist
ance. The Russians said a single
battlefield was Uttered with 5000
German dead and wounded in fight
ing yesterday.
Although tens of thousands of Red
army reserves were hurled into the
hght, the Russians declared the on
rushing Nazis still outnumbered the
defense forces barring the way to
the capital.
The Russians disclosed that there
mad been some removal of women
and children from Moscow since the
start of bombings there, but said in
view OF the new threat all who were
not needed in war-vital industries
hao been ordered to leave.
In special war bulletin the Ger
maps declared that in the Southern
ukraine, too, they had won new VIC
torres which paved the way for
seizure of the industrially important
Donets Basin and for an assault on
the great Caucasian oil fields.
Ihe Russian Sunday communioue
declared the Bryansk and Wanna
sectors of the centra. front were the
scenes of the fiercest fighting along
the whole continent-spanning bat
tie line.
Nazl Might Defied.
Even IN her blacklist hour of the
iI2-day-old struggle, Russia defied
the might of German arms.
The people of the Soviet Union
Will not lay down their arms until
every Nazi soldier on our soil is
annlhilated,' said S. A. Lozoysky
ofnclal Russian spokesman.
,, Lozovsky denied emphatically that
tne U. S. S. R. was considering an
armlstice or that the Soviet govern
ment had left Moscow or contem-
plated doing so.
German propagandists, Lozovskv
asserted, had let loose a flood of
hes in their reports of smashing
German successes in the new often
slVe in the hope of achieving q
moral effect before Germany feels
the catastrophe result" of her
losses.
The Russians conceded the ex-
treme gravity of the situation facing
their army, and Soviet newspapers
urgently renewed an appeal to
Great Britain to invade Western
Europe while "the main German
armies are chained in the East"
Officially, Britain remained silent.
but British political leaders took up
the cry for concrete help to the
beleaguered Soviets and an English
student group bombarded Prime
Minister Winston Churchill with
demand for immediate armed
action to relieve pressure on our
Russian Allies"
Jubilantly, Adolf Hitler's high
command declared in special
bulletin that the battle to annihilate
(See WAR, Page ABB