The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05

ranniaus had reported . Soviet Eifl,GFawal in the Kletskaya sec tor about 70 miles northwest of 8ialingrad - are of the Red army's 1T1atest strength.
 The latest German advance in the DlsIayagIina district, following Q l7-mile Soviet withdrawal to the north Of the railroad center. threat ensd the enciEclement of the Soviet forces still battling around Rush. Giaovkn.
 KuShchevka is nearly 50 miles north Of Bielayagiina, deep behind tho German armored spearheads tlirusting into the heart of the Cau- easlis.
 Behind Russian Lines
 OdacIal dispatches told of units of German parachutists, armed with machine guns and demolition equip nent, and groups of air-borne stankctees" dropped near railroad stations, highway intersections and villages behind the Russian lines.
 The 'chutists and tanks, 1t was said, fought to hold the strategic points until German mobile columns could rush up, but 1t was reported that most of them were wiped out quickly.
 At one point three ofth Nazi air-borne tanks were blown up with '1Golotov cocktails" - benzine-fiued bottles hurled from ambush.
 An oflcial Tass Agency dispatch from the front said that violent fighting was raging day and night all along the front from the Sea of ASov in Q wide-swinging arc up to Vcronezh on the Don along the Germans exposed northern flank.
 Speaking of the Increasing grav- fly of the situation" Tass aid that hour after hour the Germans hurled tanks in waves of dozens," against the Soviet positions.
 In one small sector, battalion 0g anti-tank rifiemen were said to have battled for 25 hours against the assaults of 150 Nazi tanks, final iy disabling IT of them.
 The noon communique said a charge by Cossack cavalrymen killed 5000 Germans in one sector near Kushchevka and an infantry forma- ton destroyed six German tanks and killed $50 of the enemy.
 During the night I. our troops fought the enemy in the zones of KIetslgaya, Tairnlyanskaya, Bielayag- lima and Muschevka," the Soviet noon ConTnunique said. '"There was no change reported on other sectors of the front.
 Heavy Fighting
 "In the Bielayaglina zone, Soviet troops engaged in heavy fighting. On one sector, the enemy succeeded in breaking through Soviet lines. Soviet troops retreated to new posi- tiOn&
 In the Tsimlyanskaya zone, stub born fighting took place, Soviet troops repulsing four attacks. On enc sector, Soviet troops retreated to new positions"
 Lieut.. Col. Nicolai Denisov re- ported in a front line dispatch to Red Star that the Germans had dropped 100 to 150 parties of para Chutt6tg on the lower Don front to date, in addition to tanketteS and mine throwers. He warned that the Gtepues were suitable for large scale parachutist operations.
 Dispatches from the front said that generally the Russians were holding the Germans in the Rush. chevka area. But the enemy drive through Bielayaglina, on the Stalin- grad -Novorossisk railroad, roared southwest toward Tikhoretsk, junc- ton of the Rostov- Baku railway. If Che Germans reach T1khoretSH, they will have outflanked the Russians Sighting around Kushchevka.
 The Germans were reported to nave concentrated enough tanks in the Bielayaglina area to attack al- most continuously, with groups of 90 to 60, and new panzer reinforce knents had arrived.
 Dtve-bomberg constantly shrieked over Russian positions. The Ger mans dropped parachutists and bands of Nazi tommy y-gunners were reckleGsly trying to penetrate Soviet positions. Tront-line dispatches said the parschutists were being mopped zlp pstt the Germans were bringing
 s stir more reserves in their des- 1frats effort to take the great Cau- ceAssn oil fields.
 Enc battle ragged day and night.