Evening star., 1942-03-25
100000 Germans Killed
Since Feb. 5, Reds Say

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dispatches reported today that the
German armies have lost more than
100000 men in killed alone since
February S, with the heaviest toll
on the Kalinin front, where the in
vaders were said to have suffered
6l,7OO casualties up to March 81.
While Soviet forces struck fresh
blows toward the west and smashed
counterattacks from German lines
reported reinforced by 38 fresh divi-
sions, other Nazi losses itemized in
communicates and special announce
ments gave these figures:
Central frontA0, 900 killed be-
tween February and March 5.
Leningrad front-16,0 900 killed
March 9-22.
Northwestern front-14,000 killed
February 22-March 10.
Southern and southwestern fronts
about 10000 killed March TIP.
Taganrog Penetrated.
A special dispatch from Smolensk
Province, west of Moscow, said vio-
lent battles had developed, with
Russian troops in complete possess
sion of IL districts and challenging
the Germans in 10 others. Such dis
tricts correspond closely to counties
In the United States.
From Marshal Semeon Timo-
shenko's southern army came re-
port that Soviet scouts had pene-
trated Taganrog, German-held port
on the Sea of AZov, exchanged fire
with the garrison, tossed grenades
into a barracks and retired.
The government information bu-
reau officially credited both regulars
and guerrillas with heavy inroads on
Adolf Hitler's military man power,
but said there were no substantial
shifts in position yesterday.
Red Army troops based in the
Leningrad sector destroyed 86 Ger
man planes and captured such loot
as 78 field guns, 7 tanks, 2 armored
cars, 80 mortars and 424 machine
guns, in addition to killing 10000
men from March to %, the bureau
said.
Nazis Lose Is Tanks.
The midday communique said
more than 600 Germans had been
killed or wounded in two local fights
On the western and southern fronts
sind that two populated places had
been captured. It said the Germans
lost 13 tanks out of IS in one of the
fights, while in another southern
sector area IA German tanks were
destroyed.
Front-line dispatches described
costly German counterattacks on the
Kalinin front, south of Leningrad,
a1d at the center.
A reserve division counterattack-
ing On the Kalinin front was de-
dared to have been routed by Rus
sian capture of II Of its so screening
tanks and slaughter of 700 of its men.
The army newspaper Red Star
said German losses in counteras-
saults against Soviet pressure on the
central front were so great the
operations could be described as the
equivalent of passing through a meat
grinder.
Guerrilas have killed 4,257 Ger
mans, destroyed $40 supply trucks,
derailed 16 trains and blown up 5
gasoline tank cars over a brief pc
riod in the region of Orel, Nazi-
garrisoned railroad city 200 miles
south of the capital, the Moscow
radio said.
German Submarine Sunk.
Soviet fleet units sank German
submarine in the Barents Sea, it
was announced
Architect Leonid Rudnev, arriving
In Kuibyshev from Leningrad, said
German bombs and shellf1re had
destroyed a large number OF homes
in the one-time capital during the
last seven months, but that the
city's art treasures and historical
relics had been hidden deep under
ground and were undamaged.
Promotion of six Red Army Of
fcers to the rank of major general
of artillery, an arm particularly ef-
fective in the winter offensive, was
announced. The officers were Baz-
hanov, Bykov, Subanov, Kuleshov,
Nilovskv and ROslyakoV,