The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-01
GERMANS KEEP
 UP THEIR DRIVE
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 The Kursk drive started four days ago. Red Star, the army newspaper. said the Axis had made slight gains in the main sector and now was trying to consolidate its position and bring up fresh forces to protect It's Hanks.
 'The aim is to widen this front but the Russians have repulsed all frontal and flank assaults, inficting severe losses in men and materials" a front line dispatch said.
 An earlier communique said that in pitched battle between opposing tank columns the Red army de- stroyed nine more of the enemy's tanks. There were no substantial changes on any fronts other than at Sevastopol and Kursk, and it was presumed the German drive south east of Kharkov had slowed down.
 Savastopol, most of tis defenses fiattened by the 25-day siege in which the Germans have thrown countless tanks and dive bombers into the fighting and shelled almost constantly with heavy artillery, still fought on. New motorized divisions were being used today in knock out attempt but the Russians said they were killing thousands.
 "The defenders of .Sevastopol dis play unparalleled courage and staunchness in their struggle with the enemy" the communique con- tinued. Within three day a group of automatic riflemen under the command of Sgt. Maj. Suomkov beat of 12 attacks and disabled about three companies of enemy infantry.
 Hurled Back By Bayonet
 "At the cost of enormous losses, the Germans succeeded in breaking into the trenches of a unit com- manded by Senior Lieut.. Garafonov Our men launched a bayonet and hurled the Ger mans back. In this engagement the Hitlerites lost 150 men killed alone.
 "The enemy repeatedly attempted to capture blindage defended by seven Red Army men headed by Sgt NNdJOI Al1lODld. AAlC AlCAO4C LOCu Army men beat off all enemy att tacks. With his sub-machine gun Amobia annihilated about 150 Hit lerites. In several days fighting, anti-aircraft gunners of battery commanded by Senior Lieut.. Shapo- velov shot down 29 German planes and damaged five.
 D,.iti e11 cf}110 pany said that 50,000 Germans had been killed in the 25-day assault on Sevastopol)
 eff the normal ratio of three men wounded to one killed was holding true at Sevastopol, it meant that German casualties were at least 200,000)
 Apparently the German offensive at Kupyansk, 60 miles southeast of Kharkov, had slowed, although the midnight communique said that on southern front sector the Rus sians had assaulted German-held locality, killed 150 of the enemy and captured prisoners and considerable booty.
 During the day of June 30 in the direction of Kursk our troops repulsed attacks by large forces of enemy infantry and tanks" the communiQue said. Our troops disa- bled about 150 German tanks. On the Sevastopol front, our troops re- pulsed fierce attacks by large enemy forces. No significant changes took yN1aon fI1n roct If tho front D
 Besides killing 2,000 Germans on one sector, of the Kursk front, Rus sians destroyed g enemy tanks and five planes, two of them bombers. by rifle and machine-gun fire.
 Toward ManchukuO London, July 1-(UP)-A British military commentator said today that there was a general drift of Japanese land and air forces to- ward the Manchukuo border oppo- site Siberia and that there seems little doubt that Japan is making every military preparation so as to attack Russia at it's own chosen moment"
 The commentator said that Japa- nese preparations were not neces- sarily complete, and that an attack on Russia was not necessarily immi- | nent.
 There is no doubt, however, that if the Japanese could fall on Rus sia without warning they would, he said.
 '"There is no big activity at the moment in China but the Japanese obviously are trying to get control of Chekiang province, in east cen tral China, because of its airdromes
 Without doubt the American raid on Tokyo threw Japanese stra- tegic plans out of kilter"
 Japan's big offensive in eastern China came after this raid.