The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-31
GERMANY MAKES
 DAILY REPORT
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  'In pursuit of the beaten Russian armies in the Ukraine the German forces thrust deep into the enemy's rearward movements.
 "Encirclement of the enemy east of Srnolensk has further narrowed their position. Units fighting in Es- tonia drove back the enemy to the north.
 "Bombers last night effectively bombed military objectives in Mos- COW as well as the rail junction oi Orel."
 The Germans took thousands prisoners, informants said, and cap- tured 50 field guns, g anti-tanli guns, seven anti-aircraft batteries 62 machine guns, 72 motor trucks and several tanks.
 Informants refused to specify the sector but said 1t might be "as- stunned" that the engagement took place in the "neighborhood of Len. ingrad."
 Paving Their Way
 German troops had been paving the way" for the encirclement fol several days, 1t was said, and com. pleted it yesterday.
 At the southern end of the front 1t was asserted, German force. continued to overrun" Russian field Notifications and advance eastward.
 Expressing confidence that henin. grad would fall soon, Germans inti. mated that if the Russians insisted on defending 1t in a finish fight il faced utter destruction.
 Rumors had circulated for -days that a German tank spearhed l1ac pushed near Leningrad. Today in. formants said that it was threaten. ed imminently by a new thrust from the south. It was indicated that strong German forces had driver east of Lake Ilmen, 120 miles soutt of Leningrad, against strong resist. ance while another force attacked from the Lake Peipus area to thu southwest of Leningrad.
 Informants said 1t was clear whe. ther the Russian forces defendinf Leningrad faced the prospect oi encirclement. They added that tho defenders were numerically very considerable"
 Tn Leningrad, at the eastern enc of the Gulf of Finland, the Ger. mans would take the Czarist capital when 1t was St. Petersburg, a citS with a population now estimated al 3,1s1 900.
 NaziS said the situation regardins Leningrad might be cleared up bl 8 high command communique to- day.
 Newspapers continued no hin that the fall of Leningrad might b, near, Their pages this morninl showed perhaps less real news o the Russian war than on any da. since Germany attacked Russia. How They Pray
 The main headline in voelkische Beobachter, Nazi party newspaper was How they pray for Bolshevil Victory" The article was an attacl on Britons for praying for e Rus sian victory.
 The papers featured articles ol the capture of British aviator whose planes had been shot down on the invasion coast, the alleged downing of 2S British planes wlnicl attacked an Arctic Norwegian DOT and the German North Sea base 0 Helgoland, and an oflcial new agency dispatch that the German had found documents at the Cit, of Luck, on the Ukranian front, or dering the 18th Russian army to at tain war strength of 310,569 men b, 8 a. m. July l7. The implication il the dispatch was that If German, had not attacked Russia June 9 Russia might have attacked Ger many sometime after July 17.
 A Hungarian cornmunique sal, the Russians were retreating alonl the whole Hungarian sector of tn front and that the Hungarians "s, far" had broken all resistance. There was no mention of the Hun garian blitz force which severa days ago had been reported 25 miles east of the general flghtinl line.