The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-21
Germany Admits Push On MoscowSl Slowed-Up
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The purpose of these attacks Is to encircle Moscow and open the way for an attack from the rear, but that objective still is unrealized. Some German sources expressed hope that the encirclement maneu- yer might be completed within a week but it was indicated that the Germans are now preparing for a long siege of Moscow.
 According to German reports, Russian special troops have taken over the Kremlin and other import ant buildings in Moscow and may be planning to destroy them with dy- namite blasts if the Soviet capital should fall. (Josef v. Stalin was re- ported in London dispatches to have established headquarters on an armored train touring the front lines to rally the defenders of Mos- cow).
 On the northern front, @ special communicate said that the Germans had completed the clean up of the Baltic islands of Estonia with the capture of Dago Island but an ofi- cial news agency report said that the Russians were counter attacking strongly on the Leningrad sector.
 Describing the capture of Dago Island, which the Russians had for tiled as an important air and naval base, the special communiQue said that the fighting began on October 18th and ended with capture of 5000 prisoners. Six coastal batteries were destroyed and members of the Rus sian garrison, attempting to escape by sea, were "annihilated by Ger. man navy units"
 Capture of Dago completed the German occupation of bases guard- ing the southern side of the en- trance to the Gulf of Finland. On the north side, the Russian garrison ct the Soviet base of Hango in southern Finland has held out against repeated attacks since the war began.
 Soviet forces near Lake Ladoga on Monday made counter-thrusts lon a broad front and with great obstinacy" supported by tanks and heavy artillery, the agency said. It reported that "all the attacks were repulsed with heavy losses"
 Nazi sources said that the fall of Stalino was lone of the heaviest blows" suffered by the Russians since the war started. Around Stalino. they said, are concentrated more than 300 mine pits producing SO per cent of Russia's coal. In ad- dition, the city has iron and steel foundries, locomotive and freight car works and many arms factories which produced guns, tanks and all kinds of munitions.
 The dispatches from the southern front said thst German infantry yesterday captured an important but unSpecified bridgehead and repulS- ed many Russian counter on that sector. Later, 1t was assert ed, the Germans drove deeply into the Russian lines, destroying 100 Russian horse-drawn vehicles.
 Another German division report edly repulsed Q Soviet tank attack, destroying 10 enemy tanks includ- ing several of 62 tons.
 German mountain troops were credited with capturing Stalino and hoisting the German war flag on a big factory.
 Italian troops took part in the occupation, 1t was said.
 The communique, issued from Adolf Hitler'S headquarters, called stalino capital of the Donets Basin"
 We'll informed German sources said the Germans were making great progress all along the South- ern front.
 (The German official news agency, in a Berlin broadcast heard in New York by the United Press listening post, said the Germans captured an important bridgehead on the south ern front yesterday and repulSed Russian attempts to recapture it)
 Informants added that in mop ping up operations in the RyanSk area southwest of Moscow the Ger mans had found the bodies of "the commander of the 5Oth Russian army, Gen. Petrov," and his staff on the battlefield.
 The high command, in its com- muniQue, said German planes had bombed Moscow and Leningrad.
 Authorized informantS, shifting their emphasis from the central front, intimated that the German armies had reached the "immedi- ate vicinity" of Rostov, in drive to cut thS Caucasus oil field pipe line and the best route for Anglo American supplies for Russia.
 They indicated that the Germans would soon start a big offensive against Kharkov, 250 miles north- west of Rostov. The logical aim of such an offensive would be to seize all of the great Donets river industrial area and take the Ger mans to the edge of the Don river basin north of Rostov.
 Reports regarding the Moscow front said only, aS had the high command, that operations were pro- ceeding according to plan. Inform ants added, however, that this meant the Germans were advancing and that the Russians would not be given a chance for Q big stand.
 Tnformants said that in their drive on Rostov the Germans were aiming primarily at an important industrial center. But furthermore, they said, capture of the city would IA mmrmsa ranesmn esxewamwsauak Rasaaeama