The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-28
Three Hitler Armies
 Smash Soviet Fronts
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enemy forces" were pressing along a road leading to Stalingrad on a nsrroW front ehf-e, in the space of one day, Q force of 5000 Germans was decimated.
 The Russians were flashing back in counter-attacks wherever possi- ble and at one point in the north ern Caucasus the village of 'M'' was said to have changed hands three times.
 It appeared that the Russians were achieving their best success in slowing down and halting the Ger man push across the Don into Caucasia in the Tsimilanskaya re- gion.
 In othre places the Russians, un- able to cope with the Germans great numerical superiority, were falling back Southward.
 Destroy Bridges
 At many points along the Don Russian Vrtillery destroyed Ger man pontoon bridges, but the Nazi engineers speedily replaced them.
 The northern Caucasus admit tedly was in great danger.
 TimoShenko's forces found 1t tn- creasingly difncult to oppose Ger man mechanized forces on the steppes south of the Don.
 The battle area, from the Don as far east as the Caucasus noun tains, consists of a fertile, treeless plain between the Black and Cas- plan seas-a historic route of in- vasion of Caucasia and almost ideal for the movement of mechan- ized forces.
 The Germans, holding the entire western shore of the Sea of Azov, also are in a position to synchro- nize their push south from RoStov with landings from Taganrog GAO miles west of Rostov) across the narrow Azov neck and across the Gerch Strait of the Crimea. Such tactics would seriously menace the Kuban valley and the naval bases remaining in Russian hands on the Black Sea coast of CaucaSia and Georgia. :,
 GA Berlin communique claimed that the Axis fronts south of the Don-already threatening to cut the Tikhoretsk -Stalingrad line - had been expanded and that advance forces were fighting both northwest and south of Ka1ach. The Nazs did not say how close they were to Kalach, however,
 American Planes There
 Front line dispatches said the Red air force. bolstered by American built bombers, was strongly attack ing German columns and river crossings and that Russian artillery had taken tremendous toll of enemy dead on the banks of the Don.
 (Ankara report said Josef V. Stalin had gone to Stalingrad to di- rect defense of the Volga river dis trict and to supervise preparations for a Russian counter offensive in the south.
 Perhaps 100000 German soldiers and their finest planes and tanks already were engaged in Adolf Hit ler,s summer offensive, some 600, 900 of them in the drive that took Ros- toy and Nococherkassk, 32 miles to the northeast, yesterday.
 In the bend of the River Don, around Tsimlyanskaya, the Rus sians fought intending battles with superior German infantry and tank forces trying to break across to the south bank of the Donand Roll across the fiat steppes to Stalingrad, no miles to the northeast, the So- viet noon communique said.
 Tsimlyanskaya is 120 miles up the Don from Rostov.
 "One of four units destroyed 25 German tanks and TOO omcers and men,, the communique asserted. "The Soviet Air Force continued to attack enemy columns and destroy- ed much material, among which were 27 tanks dispersed and partly wiped out, two companies of enemy infantry and at least one company of cavalry.
 Soviet BOmbers Attack
 "Our bomberS attacked enemy air. dromes, destroyed 2 German planes on the ground and damaged another l5."
 The communique said "last night our troops fought battles with the enemy in the regions of Voronezh and Tsimlyanskaya. There were no material changes on other sectors"
 It was not determined to where Marshal Semyon Timoshenko had withdrawn his forces when they left Rostov and Novocherkassk, but 1t