Evening star., 1942-01-05


were frozen to death.
slams reported wiping out 1000 Ger
mans in a single cavalry attack.
From sector after sector along the
battleline the Russian account was
one Of captured guns, broken resist
ance and heavy Nazi losses.
The Russians said they broke up
attempts of the Germans to estab-
lish new positions in number of
sectors and inflicted heavy losses
on the enemy in mar power and ma
terials."
The Soviet Bureau of Informa-
ton said that at Belev the Ger
mans lost 800 killed, more than
1900 soldiers and officers wounded;
we captured Is guns, II mortars, 25
heavy machine guns, so anti-tank
rifles, 10 lorries, 300 bicycles and
documents of German infantry
division
On other sectors, the communique
added, the Russians killed 1,750 Of
ficers and men and captured 3
planes, 1875 trucks. tanks and many
guns.
Coastline Advance.
The fresh gains in the Crimea
were said to have resulted from a
coastline advance.
Un Berlin the Germans said
their air force was raiding the
Russians on the Crimea day and
night. Elsewhere, Berlin said yes
terday, there was only local pa
troll action" with some air at
tacks in the Moscow zoneD
Viewing the situation along the
entire front with swelling confidence,
the Soviet Army newspaper Red
Star declared that fine prospects
are open to our troops. We have a
chance OF depriving the Germans Of
all advantages they now possess"
The recapture of Borovsk followed
two days after the recapture of
Maloyaroslavets, which lies IS miles
south Of Borovsk. The steady
progress gave weight to a Red Army
declaration this week end that the
Germans were being hurled back
from Moscow at rate three times
as fast as they had advanced.
That the Germans may have been
driven beyond an intended winter
line at the southern end of the
front was indicated in report to
Pravda, the Communist party
newspaper The report said Soviet
troops and tanks fell on an inter-
mediate line" prepared by the Ger
mans, destroyed it and held it
against counterattacks.
Claim Heavy Nazi Toll.
The Soviet Information Bureau
in a review of the week from De-
cember Is to 81 said the Red Army
wiped out more than 10000 Ger
mans southwest Of Moscow and
another 1000 in the Feodosiya sector
of the Crimea. destroyed 745 supply
trucks and captured or destroyed
quantity of other war material.
A Red Army major general Of
aviation, Scherbakov, wrote in the
government newspapr Izvestia that
the Russians would come back in
the air during 1912 with faster and
mightier fighters and with bombers
able to carry heavier bomb loads
greater distances.
He said the Russians would hold
the upper hand during the winter
months because OF better prepara-
tions for winter air warfare.
In report on the enormous booty
taken on the Kalinin front, north
west Of Moscow, in the six days be-
tween December % and January 3.
the Soviet Information Bureau in a
special communique listed:
Three hundred and forty guns. 10
tanks and tankettes. 8 aircraft.
1891 rifles, 274 machine guns, 686
automatic rifles, SO mortars. IS anti
tank rifles. 145 cases Of powder, more
than 100 minues, 1889 shells,
425, 900 rifle cartridges and a variety
of other things. including trucks.
motorcycles, bicycles, tractors and
horses
A Tass broadcast OF the Soviet In
formation Bureau communique said
Red Army troops which recaptured
the Crimean Port of Kerch found
that townspeople had been slaugh-
tered by the hundreds by German
troops.
The communique said that on'De-
cember % alone 160 persons were
shot in single street where their
bodies were left piled on the pave
ment.
Residents were quoted as saying
that heaps of bodies were hauled
to cemetery daily and that once
large group OF f~townspeople was
marched outside the city and shot