The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-31
RUSSIA GIVES
 HER WAR STORY
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 of his visit to Stalin last night.
 "Stalin asked me to thank the president for his offer of help to Russia and assured me that Amer ican confidence in Russia will not be misplaced. He said that any aid America gave would assist in the ultimate destruction of Hitler"
 Hitler Regimen Gone
 Moscow, July 3l. (UP)-Russian troops have wiped out one of Adolf Hitler's own regiments of picked bodyguard troops, killing more than 2,000 officers and men and taking prisoner several hundred--nearly all -of the survivors, q war cor1- nunique said today.
 The victory was won the bitterly contested SnclenSk sector of the Moscow front, where for two weeks the Germans had driven vainly into the Russian lines and where the Russians themselves were now counter-attacking heavily and, 1t was asserted, with great success.
 It was the great Germany" regi- ment formed by Hitler in 1940 of picked men of Berlin storm troop CTS who had been guarding the most important government and Nazi party buildings, that the Russians smashed, the communique said. The storm troopers had been formed into a motorized regiment,
 The Russian troops, drawn from the 60 races which make up the Soviet Union, won their victory over 8 unit of Hitler's ideal "ryans," se- lected as typical German Morales racially undefiled by admixture with inferior" blood. Each man was re- quired to be politically as well as racially pure, and to be of stand ard height.
 What They Captured
 Tn their victory, the communique said, the Russians captured II field guns, IA anti-tank guns, l2 heavy machine guns, 30 sub-machine guns many trucks and quantities of am. munition, the comn1llnique asserted The early con1munique reported fighting in the Novorzhev, NeveI ard Smolensk sectors of the Mos- COW front and the Zhitomir sector of the Kiev front, and noted that the fighting was especially fierce in the Sinolensk and zhitorlir sectors It was indicated that the Rus sians continued to counter-at at every opportunity, especially on the Smolensk line. f Russian planes yesterday bombed Ploesti, center of the Runanian oil fields, and the oil port of Sulina and started large fires in both areas the communique said.
 In fighting Tuesday Russian planes shot down nine German planes and five Russian planes were lost, 1t was added.
 1 Bombing Four Weeks
 GA special Moscow broadcast picked up in New York by tht United Press listening post, saic that for four weeks the RussianI had been bombing the Ploesu regior daily and great quantities of oi had been destroyed. The efficacJ of the Ploesti wells had been con. siderably reduced, the broadcas said. In addition, 1t was asserted Russian planes had heavily bombed the oil reserves at Constanza, ths Rumanian naval base. It was notet that the Rumanian supplies are thu only foreign sources of oil nov available to the Germaas.)
 Accounting distinguished service by individual Russian units, tht communique said that in one month the X" infantry regiment, com. manded by Colonel Laoshov, hac destroyed one German infantr, regiment (3,o00 mem, seven separate battalions Q,000 men each), and { machine gun company (about 17i men, 12 guns) and had captured the headquarters of two German l infantry battalionS.