The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-29
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

BY HENRY SHAPIRO
 FIn1ted Press staR Correspondent)
 Moscow, July 2o. - CUP) The
 German high command was making S supreme now-or-never effort to- 1y to crack the Red army.
 The Axis drive apparently was aimed at slicing of the Caucasus and is oil, the capture of Stalingrad and control of the lower Volga to izae Caspian Sea.
 Into this big battle the Germans 4sxew 20 panzer divisions - pre- Numably about 10000 tanks of all 1Izes. The Red army was retiring steadily under the weight of the rl1ezny's superiority in men and weapons but fighting in good order.
 The masses of Axis troops, tanks and planes pounded eastward along and south of the broad Don for a &ecisive blow against Stalingrad and the Volga that would cut of all CAucasia.
 m the hour of gravity the Moscow pEeas today called again for a sec- 0lad front in western Europe where lf vas said, the Germans have been xorced to strip their French garri- sons of all except about 10 effec- tive divisions for the struggle in the east.
 The ofdcial Communist party or gan Pravda, in an article by Eugene Varda, a leading Soviet publicist called upon the allies to repay the ze-year old debt of the Marne by opening up a second land front Russia's offensive against East Prussia in 1914 forced the Germans to transfer big forces from France and enabled the allies to win the battle of the Marne, Varda said.
 In support of the second front appeal, the Russians said that Hit Ter iS not only forced to rush troops to the Soviet front from western Europe but from as far away as the Egyptian desert.
 A noon Russian communique saio that the Red army had been forced Co withdraw deeper into the Cau- easus in the Bataisk area about F miles south of Rostov, that the Germans had made new crossings 0f the Don to the northeast anc that heavy pressure was being ex- erted against Stalingrad on the volga.
 Rampage Is Feared
 The Russians were fighting Stub- bornly to prevent the German tanks from flashing through to the real and starting A rampage
 (The German high command, ir what seemed to be confirmation that the Caucasus offensive now is in high gear, said that Axis forces were steadily advancing toward Stalingrad and had broken" Rus sian resistance at several points on the Don. The Germans, it was said crossed the Manych and Sal rivers south of the Don. The Sal is about 10 miles below the Don)
 (The British radio described g ta1ree-way drive on Stalingrad. The heaviest attack appeared to bt against Kaluch, 40 miles northwes of Stalingrad, where the German! { reported an advance. The German! also attacked toward Kachalinsk, 6 miles northwest of Stalingrad anc Novochirskaya, no miles south West.)
 (The Stockholm newspaper Da- gems Nyheter's correspondent with the Germans on the Caucasian front said that the Soviet withdrawal across the Don had been mo Dun- kirk' and that the Red army with drawal had been orderly, leaving only . few tanks and other material on the northern banko
 The Russian high command, ir describing the latest withdrawal ir the Bataisk area (second withdrawa announced in the last 24 hours ir the sector) said that the German! advanced only after "hurling fresf forces into action"
 The Russians told of strong Rec army attacks elsewhere along tht 2,0OO- mile front-around Leningrad Kalinin, Bryansky and Voronezh- intended to draw of German strength from the southern battle areas.
 Filling Nazi Ranks
 Dispatches yesterday revealed that nine fresh German infantr! divisions (135,000 men) and twt tank divisions had been added tt overwhelming German forces, ant the Soviet communique last mid night said three new German fight CT and bomber plane groups hat been brought up.
 The Soviet army newspaper saiC that Germans hardly had 10 di yisions left In France with any fight ing power.
 Tn the face of these grave devel epments, the Russians opened sxnashing counter-attack in tn Leningrad area, on the north ent of the 2,000 mile front, and drov' the Germans from many strong holds, but front-line reports admit ted the Russians were trying to bea the Germans to the punch.
 Soviet troops retired to new de Sensive positions in the Bataisl Area," the Soviet noon communiqu 8evealed. Fierce battles continued ] Cur troops are stubbornly resisting the advencing enemy.
 Tn one day, oA one sector, in on hour, our men destroyed 19 enem. tanks and killed HOO officers anC ] men. Only after the enemy hat 1 thrown huge forces into battle dit