The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-14
Soviet Press Warns
 People Of Big Danger
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 German Reports
 (UeTman radio reports on Mon- GaR claimed that the Russian counter attack northwest of Voro- nezh had been crushed with heavy Soviet losses, including almost 300 lanls).
 The army newspaper said that tho counter-ofEensi had been in progress for several days on 3 wide front west of the Don river and is ptlthing the enemy southward."
 Huge forces of tanks, infantry and cavalry were said to be de- livering crushing blows" against the Axis north flank. Soviet tanks sought out weak spots in the Ger man defenses and penetrated en- erny positions" in order to batter at the 1anks of enemy troops at- taelxing Voronezh.
 But the outcome of the Russian counter thrust still was uncertain and the Axis offensive south Of the Don river bend had surged 100 miles from Rossosh along the rail- road to a point south of the june ton of Millerovo, on the road to Rostov. Still another Axis advance pushed farther eastward in the Boguchar sector, less than 19O miles from stalingrad, on the Volga.
 700 Mile Battlefront
 Fighting was intensified on vital sectors of a 7OO-mile front stretch ing from the Kalinin area, where a battering Russian counter attack put the Germans on the defensive 136 miles northwest of Moscow, to the Don River bend and thence southward to within perhaps 90 miles of Rostov. :.
 Two German columns were at tempting to close in on the city ot Rcstov by fianking attacks. One had moved southeastward from Kharkov and was beyond Lisichansk, only 4o 1nlIea from VoroSilovgrad and 8 lit- tie more than 100 miles from Ros- tOv.
 The second column, moving down from the north along the Voronezh- Rostov railroad, was reported to have advanced about 100 miles be- low Rossosh and the Don river bend to and beyond the junction of Mill leroyo, where a spur leads westward kO Voroshilovgrad and Lisischansk. (T1nus the two columns apparently were attempting to make a junction, possibly by attacking Vorosshilov- grad from both east and west before trying to continue southward in a pincers against Rostov)
 Dispatches from the from acknow- Iedged that both the southward drive toward Rostov and the east ward push below the Don river to- ward Stalingrad had gained ground despite strong Russian resistance, but on the Kalinin front northwest of Moscow the Red Army reported success.
 On two sectors of the Kalinin front (around Rzhev) the Russians said they had made successful coun- er-attacks that reduced the size of the area taken by the Germans and had compelled the enemy to take up the defensive.
 '"The hositinties revolve around a very strategic road, the shortest route linking two large enemy xroups and the enemy is trying to maintain control of this road" one dispatch said. "In two days of heavy battle the Russians drove them from many villages and cut the road at several places.
 ''The Germans are constantly pouring in aircraft, which they must withdraw from other fronts, to cover their infantry. Their efforts to advance have been very costly. The battle area, southwest of Rzhev, extends to about 125 miles north- west of Moscow at the junction of important roads and railroads"
 Like SevastOpol
 The fighting around Voronezh was comparable to the siege of Sevasto- pol in It's fury and in the cost which the Germans have paid for ad- vaYces into the city's defenSes.
 Tn the 10-mile stretch between the Don river and Voronezh, on the main Moscow-Rostov railroad, every hillock, grove and settlement was