Evening star., 1941-08-21
Russians Admit
Dread Danger
To Metropolis
More Than HuIf
Of Fascist Casualties
Killed, Moscow Says
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BY the Associated Press
Combined German and Rus
sian claims late today listed a
staggering total of 100000 men
killed, wounded or captured in
the two-month-old conflict on
the Eastern front, while afeld.
Nazi troops driving from the
south were reported within Is
miles of Leningrad, the old
Czarist capital.
The Russians declared official
ly that German losses approxi-
mated 100000 killed and
wounded; the Germans said 81
100000 Red Army troops had
been killed, wounded or cap
tured. A Soviet spokesman said
more than half of the German
losses were slain.
The Russians acknowledged that
Leningrad was in dread danger"
under a three-headed onslaught by
Nazi and allied Finnish forces.
A Swedish brodcast. quoting the
Berlin correspondent of Stockholm
newspaper, said the Nazis were. ad-
vancing via Gatschina. about %
miles south of Leningrad.
Adolf Hitler's high command re-
ported that German columns had
smashed three main bulwarks OF
Leningrad's outer defense system.
War Just Begun, Says Russian.
Despite severe reverseS at both
ends of the 1,5O0-mile battlefront
from Karelia to the Black Sea,
Soviet official spokesman S. A. Lo-
zovsky declared in Moscow:
There is no alarm or pessimism
within our ranks. Even Hitler and
his advisers understand that the
war in the East has only begun"
Lozovsky conceded that the Ger
mans had won considerable success,
but, he said, on the basis of RuSsias
vastness, only a comparatively small
area has been taken and that has
been left without provisions, con-
tanning only wrecked cities, ruined
factories guerrilla warfare
and local hatred ."
I'VE know the enemy strength and
potentiaities. There is no alarm or
pessimism in our ranks. On the
contrary. the latest German sue
cesses south and north compel us
to close ranks still tighter"
Says Germany Will Be Beaten.
Lozovsky declared Germany would
be beaten no matter how many
months or years we have to fight"
and added that 1T couldn't occur
even to a crazy Hitlerite that the
German Army is capable of smash
ing the U. S. S. R., Great Britain
and then the United States"
He denied German claims to the
seizure of eight Soviet warships.
including battleship, in the cap
tured port of Nikolaev, saying that
the docks and everything in them
had been blown up before the city's
evacuation.
He quoted Chinese sources them
selves as denying that China would
participate in the forthcoming war
supply conference among Russia,
Britain and the United States.
Of the German casualties, he said,
Mankind has not known such
losses in such short time"
Nazis Claim 100000.
The Red Army losses of 100000
men claimed by the Germans, in
cluded 100000 prisoners. DNB,
the official German news agency.
said conquered Soviet territory ex-
ceeded 1886, 900 square miles-an area
greater than the entire German
Reich and its newly-incorporated
territories east and west.
DN.B. also distributed a state
ment re-emphasizing that the war
with Russia was being waged ito
gain preconditions for the final
struggle with Great Britain" and
insisting that aerial blows against
the British Isles had not been weak
ened.
Neutral observers interpreted the
statement two ways: First. an at
tempt to bolster German morale,
now suffering punishment from the
r. A. F.; second. to quash vague
rumors of a British German peace
movement.
In London, high British author
ity said r. A. F. raids in the last
eight weeks had placed far more
bombers over Germany in single
night than the Germans sent over
Britain in the most violent assaults
last autumn and winter.
"The German people are catch
ing it now," he said.