Evening star., 1941-09-26
$4,000 Reds Taken
Prisoner East Of
Kiev, Nazis Say
Lost Remnants of Four
Trapped Armies Declared
On Verge of AnnihiIution

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Sept. Fisherman forces
how have captured $4,000 Russian
prisoners on the Ukraine front east
of Kiev and the last remnants of
four trapped Soviet armies are on
the verge of annihilation, a special
communique from Adolf Hitler's
headquarters announced tonight.
1t said the figure still was rising
steadily" and that seized war ma
terial cannot even be estimated"
This was the second bulletin claim
ing that huge sections of the Red
Army were being herded swiftly into
German prison camps. 1t added
$4,000 captives within a few hours
after the first special announce
ment of the day, which placed the
figure at $4,000.
Indicating that mop-up opera
tions beyond the captured Ukraine
capital, Kiev, were progressing at
lightning pace, the first bulletin
referred to the Russians as rem
nants" of Marshal Semeon Bud
yennys Ukrainian forces and the
second called them the "last rem
nants"
These were the only official re-
ports on the land drive but the high
command said also that the air force
had destroyed railroad tracks and
armament plants in the regions Of
Moscow, Tula, a rail center south
of Moscow, and Kharkov, center of
the industrial Donetz River Basin
area
D.NB. said German and other
Axis forces had made new terri
torial gains in the southern sector
after repulsing several Soviet coun-
terattacks.
Russians Using Cavalry.
Other dispatches said the Rus
slams again we're resorting to cav
airy in counterattacks in an undes-
ignated area of the southern zone,
using horses in coordination with
tanks and infantry. In one thrust,
they said, the Russians lost II out
of 40 tanks.
To the north, German soldiers
entrenched east of the Dvina River
about 300 miles south of Leningrad
were said to have beaten of heavy
attacks apparently made by the
Red Army in an effort to ease the
pressure on the besieged northern
city.
The Germans said great masses of
Soviet troops were unable to break
into the Nazi positions.
1t was not disclosed where the
engagement occurred, but some
sources said it apparently was in the
neighborhood of Velizh, 10 miles
northwest of German occupied
Smolensk.
(Russian dispatches said the
Germans in this area were routed
at cost of more than $500 Ger
man dead0
Leningrad Siege Intensified.
The Germans, meanwhile, intensi-
fed their siege of Leningrad, which
was pictured as being reduced to
burning ruins and wreckage. The
Germans and Russians were fighting
desperately in house-to-house COM
bats in Leningrad,s factory suburbs,
German reports said.
Far to the south of the besieged
city, D.NB. said, an armored di-
vision attacked two Soviet infantry
divisions and drove them into re-
treat with heavy casualties.
The news agency said the retreat
ing Russians, held up at a stream,
were attacked a second time. Seven
teen hundred prisoners were re-
ported taken.
The German air force was re-
ported to have raided the railway
line running from the Kharkov in
dustrial area in the Donets Basin to
the Crimea. A squadron leader said
the Russians had built long zig-zag
trenches, camouf1aged machine-gun
nests and artillery positions in that
area.