The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-28

4SLck. GUllS 1Nh&A ACCOuAAtc zA@NS given support to this claim indirect ] ly. by stating that German com munications lines have been forced to give Smolensk a wide leeway)
 Contradict Each Other
 The high commands claim that 1t apparently is near success in the clean-up of the SInolensk region cannes ah the Erankfurter zeitung admitted frankly that Russian de- lenders occasionally succeed in 'cut- ting of Na6 spearheads and In driving wedges into German lines.
 Teh high commands statement on Russian operations:
 '"TIae battle of Smolensk is near- ing It's conclusion. All attempts to prevent the destruction of trapped Soviet detacllrnents have been ofiied..
 Tn the Ukraine allied troops, despite difacult road conditions, are pushing constantly after the re- treating enemy.
 ''On thet Finnish front German Finnish troops gained further ground in the face of obstinate enemy resistance"
 The oficiai news agency DINE re- ported that the number of prisoners taken in the Mogilev area, south of Smolensk, had increased from 12,O00 to 35,O00 and that 750 machine guns and other war materials had been taken.
 A military expert wrote in the newspapers that 1t was impossible for the Germans to use their blitz- krieg technique with effect equal to that of the French campaign be- cause thet Russians were well train- !, ed, well prepared and well equipped and were tougher fighters. "The eastern war has assumed 8 new form but German leadership is none the less master of it," he said.
 Called Enemy Beaten
 This article was published as newspapers and spokesmen ger- erally said the German forces were pursuing beaten enemy, that "the great battle of encirclements and moppings up was coming to ist end" and that the Germans were believed to be within 45 miles of Leningrad and 14O miles of Moscow.
 A Slovak high command con- munique was quoted that Slovak rapid troops" had advanced a total of 86O milometers beyond the Slo- yak frontier.
 (This would put the Slovak troops in the heart of the Ukraine, some 200 miles beyond Kiev and some 250 miles ahead of the zone in which, according to other comimuniques, the fighting is now In progress.)
 The oficial radio said the Ger. man and Rumanian forces were ''mopping up" in Bessarabia and the campaign there was nearing it's conclusion" The Montag Post said the Russians on this stretch of the front were encircled and were try- ing to break out
 As to the central front, reports were somewhat vague but agreed that the termination of the aI1- initiation battle is now In sight"
 Dispatches said that as soon as the "annihilation battle" was end- ed, the German tanks and motor ized infantry, with their fighting power in no way impaired, will be free to resume against the ex. hausted enemy Q concerted fcr~ ward march,"
 225,OOO Square Miles
 Voelkischer Beobachter, the Ns1i party newspaper, said Germany and its allies had taken in all 225 600 square miles of territory.
 The Frankfurter Zeitung expert wrote that 1t was hardly possible to say whether a front existed ac- tually but that if there was a front it was "a multi-dimensioral front" consisting of rolling area whose limits are determined by the con- inencement of the Russian interior which has not been affected by current operations"
 Tn addition to many pockets, the expert wrote, the front was marked by salients driven in both direc- tions" s"-that is salients driven by the Germans into the Russian lines and by the Russians into the Ger man lines.
 German tank spearheads, he wrote, were occasionally" cut off from following troops, with the :e- suit that while creating pockets they themselves are encircled by the Russians who simultaneously are driving wedges into the Ger. man lines by counter attacks which a ra y.anLa%ad fxa AsYy.x, g
 Recalling the campaign in France, he wrote:
 Nothing could be more inac- curate than to attempt to super impose the model of the western campaign on the war on the east ern front.
 Quite apart from the complete 1y altered expallse of territory the new opponent generally has proved himself tougher and furthermore has equipped and trained himself for years for modern warfare in contrast to the western enemy"
 Hence, the expert wrote, the Rus- sians not only counter attack "as the best defense" but also repeat edly "grapple with breaking through spearheads by deep de- lenses, with reserves coming up by waves and preventing such blitz- thrusts as those in France, where once the line was broken nothing stopped the German tanks"
 
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