Evening star., 1942-06-29
Nazis Report Drive
To Sapun Hill in
Sevastopo| Battle
Capture Of Is, ,667 Enemy
Troops From June 7 to
June 28 Claimed
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN From German Broad
casts, June 29-The high command
announced today that German and
R1lmanian troops have forced a
crossing of the Tchernaja Valley and
infiltrated to Sapun Hill at Sc
vastopol.
The German communique said
that from June 7-28 the beseigers
of Sevastopol captured 1857 Rus
slams and 2,579 bunkers and de-
stroyed or captured 221 guns, 462
trench mortars and 1854 mines.
Mount Sapun and a series of
lesser promontories form a part Of
the natural semi-circular defenses
southeast of Sevastopol. The Ger
mans and Rumanians have been
battering heavily at these strong
Notifications since other attacking
forces were reported to have smash
ed through similar defenses to the
north of the Crimean naval base.
On the Kharkov front the high
command reported destruction of Is
Russian tanks in German tank at
tacks east of the Donets River
Fourteen supply trains were reported
destroyed in night raids on Soviet
bases in the Upper Don region.
Central Front Fighting.
Brisk fighting was reported on the
central front, where the high COM
mand said 900 Russians were killed
and 332 prisoners taken by Nazi
shock troops.
German big guns on the Leningrad
front have shelled factories in the
ong-besieged Baltic city and ship
ping in Kronstadt Bay, the COM
munique said without disclosing
when.
Continuing their raids on Muir
mansk, far northern port of entry
to United States and British aid to
Russia, German planes were de-
clared to have set fire to railroad
installations and warehouses. The
communique listed IL Soviet planes
destroyed.
A special high command an
nouncement that a big Russian
force had been pinched off below
Leningrad with losses in men and
weapons and an official report of
the second meeting between Adolf
Hitler and Finnish Field Marshal
Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim
shifted German attention to the
northern front.
The Germans had received no ad-
vance preparation for either an
nouncemant and the news shunted
even the great battles of Egypt.
Sevastopol and the Ukraine out of
front-page prominence in the Ger
man press.
A special high command COM
munique yesterday said the Rus
SLAMS had lost all of one army, the
I'd, and parts of the SID and seth
armies on the Volkhov front rs
miles southeast of Leningrad.
1t indicated that the coup de
grace was struck only a few hours
before the special bulletin was is
sued.
32,759 Declared Taken.
The Russians, it said, lost 30
759 prisoners along with casualties
many times as high" 649 guns, I'll
tanks, 1904 guns, trench mortars
and other materiel.
Soviet forces, it said, crossed the
frozen Volkhov River north of Lake
linen last February and slashed a
deep wedge into the German de-
fenSes.
Then a mixed Axis force launched
a months-long counter operation in
which, the communique added, it
cut off the Soviets from behind,
squeezed them closer and closer to-
gether and to-day finally destroyed
them"
Supporting German troops and
air units, it said, were Spanish,
Dutch and Flemish soldiers, all un-
der the command of Col. Gen.
Keller.