Evening star., 1941-06-29
Berlin
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quarters communique referred 10
the big successes" of the week. but
gave no details of the vast east
ward drive-the biggest Hitlers land
armies yet have attempted. 1t
promised facts for tomorrow, how
ever, in a series of special Sunday
announcements.
The timing of this newly sched-
uled burst of victory claims was
significant in view of the drive to
enlist all Europe in an anti-Com-
munist crusade.
Foretaste of Victory News.
Meanwhile, DNB., the official
news agency, gave the German pub
lie a fortaste of victory news by re-
porting that the 9th Division OF
the Red Army had been broken up
and destroyed"
On Ankara, Axis sources said
that Minsk, the capital of White
Russia, 20 miles inside the old
Soviet frontier and some $50
miles from the nearest German
territory, had been taken by the
Nazis.
"a Rumanian communique in
Bucharest said that German
units have succeeded everywhere
in accomplishing their missions"
and that all enemy counter-at-
tacks had been broken.
(The Rumanians reported that
130 Soviet airplanes had been
downed in the last few days, dur
ing which attacks were made on
several Rumanian cities, includ-
ing Bucharest.
zone Soviet destroyer was
sunk and another probably dam
aged" before Constanta, Ru-
manian Black Sea port, Thurs
day, the communique said)
D.N.B. also said that one Ger
man anti-aircraft regiment had de-
stroyed in the forenoon of one day
80 Russian tanks and 18 planes,
while a D.NB. correspondent in
the Ukraine sector reported that five
German bombers, protected by six
Messerschmitt fighters, had shot
down in 20 minutes Is of an at
tacking force of 80 Russian planes.
In the midst of the sky fight. the
correspondent added, the five bomb
ers swooped on a nearby Russian
airport and dropped bombs.
Six Ships Claimed Sunk.
In other theaters of war the head
quarters communique claimed the
sinking of six ships out of a convoy
near England and said the Royal Air
Force had suffered heavy losses
in raids over Northern Germany
Some civilian casualties resulted
from these raids, the communique
said, and residential buildings. par
ticularly in Hamburg and Bremen
were damaged.
Informed German sources claimed
today that British air losses in the
last "a hours totaled 36 planes, as
against one German plane lost in
clashes with the r. A. F.
While knowing nothing of the
tactical features of the campaign
against Russia, or of the position
of front-line troops, German citi-
zens continued to get many i'm
pressions of color and atmosphere
and occasional insight into small
details of Hitler's eaStbound blitz.
Propaganda company reporters al
the front, while rarely naming OF
limiting at locations, told elaborstely
what confronts the individual Ger
man soldiers.
Enemy Tanks Burn Like Torches
vengeance for treachery"
"Fatalistic Self Sacrifice by Primi-
tive SiberianS" these were some
of the headlines on propaganda
stores.
Town Reported Destroyed.
vengeance for Treachery' headed
an article reporting the destruction
of a Russian town in which Soviet
troops had laid trap for German
infantry. The town seemed de-
serted and abandoned by its de.
tenders. But once the Germans
were well inside it murderous
fire opened up from roofs and upper
windows.
THE appropriate answer was
given by our artillery" the reporter
wrote. "The town which the So
viets had cited - IN example OF