The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
RED ARMIES IN
 GERMAN SWEEP
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threatening to envelope the whole German spearhead which had been pointed at Moscow in November The Russian drive from Rzhev ap- peared to be the most important operation, & British spokesman said, because seizure of that point would cut the key rail line used by the Axis and might force German evacuation of the entire center sec- tor. A broadcast by the NEG corre- spondent at Kuibyshev said that the Russians held air superiority all along the front.)
 Dispatches said that about 100,- 900 German troops were believed doomed in the Mozhaisk sector, where the Russian encirclement was directed by Gen. Grigori K. zhukov.
 The advance guard of General Zhukov's troops has entered Moz- raisk and the Russians said the 100000 German troops trapped in the city were doomed. Their escape was blocked by the steady closing of a 2iant pincers from the northwest al.d southwest. One Russian column, pressing southwest from Voloko- lamsk, already had severed the main German line north of Mozhaisk while a similar force drove north west from Maloyaroslavets, recap tured January l after six-day bat tie.
 The German position was im- periled by Soviet recapture of the town of Borovsk, 50 miles southwest of Moscow. The Germans there suf- fered heavy losses and the Soviet fighters prevented the retreating survivors from consolidating new positions.
 Mozhaisk's recapture was seen as smashing the last German hope of making stand east of Vyazna which is 135 miles southwest of the capital. The Russians claimed the remaining Germans on the Moscow front to the east of Mozhaisk face encirclement in an enormous pin- cers stretching from Kalinin on the north to Orel on the south.
 A Russian correspondent reported from Kaluga, 100 miles southwest of Moscow, that the Germans had been hurled back 25 to 30 miles there Farther south near Crel and Khar- kov, the Germans were throwing fresh reserves against the Russians in an unsuccessful attempt to halt their advance.
 GA London Daily Telegraph dis patch from Stockholm said Russian spearheads entering Mozhaisk en- countered stiff resistance from Ger man troops entrenched in concrete pilboxes fortified by maze of anti tank ditches and wire entangle- ments. These Notifications, the dis patch said, were erected after the Germans captured the city in Mo- vember.)
 More than 100 miles northwest of Moscow third Russian army pried German defenders from temporary strongholds. pushing southwestward along the Volga river from recap tured Staritsa to German-held Rz- hey. After a four-day battle during which the Germans offered "desper- ate resistance"
 Russians found the areas along the German retreat devastated. The Germans burned Staritsa to the ground before evacuating.
 In the successful battle for Ma loyaroslavets, the Russians shatter- ed the 18th, 98th, and 34th German infantry divisions and captured SO tanks, 60 guns and large quanti- ties" of equipment. Soviet guerrillas played an important role by des- troying German army corps head quarters.
 (Radio London heard radio Mos- COW say that more than 10000 Ger mans were killed last week in the Donets Basin and 2.000 were killed when Russian forces reoccupied Kerch and Feodosiya in the Cri- meal
 Guerillas on the Leningrad front