The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14
urious Fight Rages On Old Napoleon Field
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British advices. It was estimated that since the Germans started their drive October 9 they had lost as many as 600000 men, of whom l50,- 900 were killed.
 Admittedly Russian losses were heavy also, but 1t was held that Marshal Semyon Timoshenko, com- manding tn eRussian central army, had the advantage ill bringing up reserves.
 The Germans were reported to have sent many Rumanians, Hun garians and Italians to the line in their attempt to keep their steam roller offensive at It's peak.
 Experts said, however, that there were clear signs that the Germans were slowing because of Russian rec sistance, the shortentN Russian line of communication and the thrain on German men and machines.
 Red Army Dispatches
 Moscow, Oct. IA - (U.P.) = The Red Army was reported in war dis- patches today to have smashed back the German offensive spearhead Il miles, to have blocked enemy drives on three fronts defending Moscow and to be infiicting tremendous cas- ualties on Nazi panzer units on a fourth.
 The most ferocious battles of the war were reported from the front lines where Russian reserves and civilian defense construction work CTS rushed into the battle to defend the Soviet capital.
 The road to Moscow must become the Fascist road to death,' the famous Soviet novelist and war cor- responder, 1lya Ehrenbourg, said in a dispatch to the Red Star in which he emphasized that the great flow of American war supplies" was working in favor of Russia.
 Ehrenbourg and other war cor- reported isolated clash es in which they listed 16o00. Ger mans killed or wounded, $50 tanks and 1000 other vehicles destroyed as a smalt part of the toll of battle in the last few days.
 What Dispatches Say
 Dispacthes said that
 l. A tank-led Russian counter attack drove the Germans back Il miles. (apparently in the Borodino sector, 63 miles west of Moscow and held eight miles of the gain des- pite a savage new enemy attack on a divisional front. Almost 300 Ger man tanks and hundreds of other vehicles were destroyed in great mechanical. battle in which Nazi casualties were 5000 men.
 2-The Germans were forced to rush new reinforcement to the Orel sector, defending the south approach to Moscow, after Q heavy week-long battle in which i20 German tanks and many dive-bomberS were de- stroyed in attempting to infiltrate through Russian defense positions. The Panzer units were reported to have been forced back to their orig inal positions. German reserves later renewed the drive toward Tula but at & very slow pace, dispatches said.
 3-To the northwest (where the Germans are driving toward Kal- inin) the war bulletin said that sev- eral attacks were repelled by Red army defenses and that the Ger mans suffered 5000 casualties, in- cluding l,5O0 dead. (Failure of she Russian communique to give exact positions made 1t impossible to lo- cate this front deflnitely.)
 EOn the southwestern sector around Bryansk alone, the Russian airplanes were heavily attacking German Panzer units. The Red Star said the Russians inflicted heavy casualties in this sector before re- tiring to new positions.
 Germans Will Not Stop
 On the southern (Ukraine) front, the Russian war dispatches acknowl- edged, the German offensive against the Donets Basin continued unabat- ed, with great pressure on the Meii- topol sector and eastward against the industrial cities.
 At Kharkov, the newspaper Izvess tia, said, home guards and all re- serve power were called up for the forthcoming battle" (indicating that the enemy was nearing that important Ukraine city.) Men and women are digging trenches and building tank traps in a great downpour, of rain," the dispatch said. Home guards are patrolling the streets and boys and girls havf taken over factory jobs as the men leave for the front"
 IzveStia said that 19 German planes had been shot down on the approaches to Moscow since yeSter- day, including one that was ram- med by Soviet pilot. It demanded that all citizens increase the war effort on the home front In view of the desperate threat to the capi- tai.
 All war front dispatches described the fighting to the southwest in the orel- -ByyanSk sector and to the west. where the Russians abandon cd Vyaxnaa, as the most furious of the war.
 Rattle ag Tanks
 On the Vyaxna sector gwhere AAe Germans were reported only ea miles from Mossowl V powerful Russian