The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-14

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 To the south, on the central front where Nazi troops are aiming toward Smolesnk and Moscow, the official agency said that the ad- vance moved forward "irressitably" across the Dnieper and upper Dvina rivers after "retreating Soviet troops fought futilely with heavy losses to offer resistance at several positions in the Vitebsk area"
 Further Russian retreats under heavy German attck were reported by the official news agency to have taken place yesterday in several sectors behind the Stalin line.
 The Finnish army, the cor1muni- que added, has taken the offensive on both sides of Lake Ladoga, to- ward the southern end of the Rus- so-Finnish front.
 German destroyers have sunk two Russian outpost boats, 1t was add. cd.
 NaN inHormants asserted that the Germans had broken 60 miles past "the last Soviet Notifications in the European area" at almost all points along the stalin line and one newspaper said that the Russian forces were in complete dissolution.
 Military reports said that as the ground forces drove far into the Russian lines toward Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev, German planes were bombing and machine gun- ming highways and railroads along the line of retreat and great mass cd endorsements, who had arrived to late to aid, were now under fire.
 JublIant Hlh Command
 The military dispatches went far beyond the jubilant high command communique of Saturday night, which claimed the breaking of the stalin line, to imply that German troops were now entirely through the line and that nothing but dis- organized masses of men stood be- tween them and the three key cities at which they were driving. (A Stockholm newspaper dispatch supplemented German dispatches to say, as from Helsinki, that Ger man and Finnish troops were ad- vancing in the Karelian Peninsula, toward Leningrad, cooperating with the Germans driving up from the Baltic front, and that in the far north the Germans and Films were making progress toward Murmansk, the Russian Arctic base.
 (The Hungarian general staff said Hungarian troops were continuing the pursuit" of Russians on their southern. front and had captured many prisoners in 8 fight with the Russian "rear guard.')
 Behind the Russian front new encirclements are developing be- hind the Stalin line", said dis patch in Der Montag. 'The German air force, in uninterrupted attacks, has caused chaos. The Soviet forces are in complete dissolution"
 Comparing the Russian appoint ment of three new commanders in chief to the appointment of Gen. eral Maxine Weygand as French generalissimo just before the fall of rgak1ce, OeC MOuLag basds
 Ruins Of French Army
 'Weymand found only the ruins of the French army. Nothing more will the three heroes of Bolshevism' find who have been ordered to re- organize resistance on the eastern front"
 Soviet tropos are unable to offer resistance any longer in the anni- hilation satssS'';: the Volkischer Beobachter, NaA Pary newspaper, asserted.
 The high commands statement of Saturday night. repeated in the regular c0mmunique yesterday, that "a state of dissolution was to be observed in many enemy forma- tions,' was said in military quarters to mean that these symptoms" had reach "an extent of importance and significance for future warfare" !" because the high command was SO conservative in It's statements. The ofilcial news agency, in Q dis- patch experimenting the high com- mand special communique, said complete victory for Germany was now assured. Leningrad was in- mediately threatened t said. the occupation Of Klev was imminent and the march to Moscow had been opened up with no further natural or artificial obstacles to impede the striking forces.
 60 Germans Missing Berlin, July i4-~(UPl-~Aslth0Fixed German Gp0kesmen said today that about 60 Germans sflll were nllasing in an exchange Of Soviet and Manl diplomats and oi1leE nationaif through Turkey.
 Asserting that "WaEs end meanr