The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-14
RED ARMY TO
 CLOSE FINGERS
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 Deep Russian penetration was re- ported in the Lake linen area south of Leningrad Novorod, key town in this area, was reported endangered in serious threat to the communi- cations of the entire German army on the Leningrad front--a threat which, it was said, might if devel- opeG, eventually pose to the Germans the problem whether to start gen. eral retreat toward the west.
 Full railroad communication had been established with Leningrad from the east and it was possible for men and weapons to pour into the old capital for real counter drive.
 NaZi Danger Point
 The second danger point for the Germans, the Moscow front, had reached the acute stage and a Red army spearhead was reported to be less than 35 miles from the Bryansk- Smolensk railroad, a vital German communication line extending north WkestWard from Bryansk.
 In this area the southern end of the great Russian pincers seemed closing in and it was reported that activity in the Rzhev sector north west of Moscow meant that the great Russian pincers, with it's claws l25 miles apart, was starting to close in from the northern end
 It was indicated that the Rus sianS were ineXorably squeezing the Germans in the Moznaisk sector west of Moscow in what threatened to be a smaller pincerS movement inside the big one.
 To the south the Russians were threatening to encircle, and to take, Orel, 200 miles south of Moscow.
 In the Crimea the Russians were reported driving to the Perekop Isthmus from the eastern end of the Crimea while a second force drove from the southwest coast.
 This was a threat to the entire Germans talian-Rumanian army in the Crimea, estimated to number seven divisions or upwards of 100000 men.
 It was reported without conf1rma- tion that the Russians were drop ping parachutists in the Crimea in new threat to the Germans.
 A Russian communique, reporting the recapture of Kirov, in the Vya- ma-Bryansk railroad sector 90 miles southeast of Smolensk, indi- cated that the Red Army had now broken the German second winter line" at another key place.
 The same communique reported the liberation of Dorokhovo, near Mozhaisk on the Smolensk road, Napoleon's road of disaster.
 Food for Leningrad
 Radio Leningrad reported that food trains were now reaching Lem ingrad from Tikhvin over the rail- road which extends westward through Voibakala, 50 miles east of Leningrad, and indicated that the Germans "besieging" the old capital were no longer problem except to the German high command.
 The Vichy radio reported that the Germans had evacuated the impor- tant city of Staraya Russa, a rail- road junction l50 miles south of Leningrad.
 Stockholm reported that Russian ski troops, leading the northern claw of great Red Army pincers movement on the Moscow front, had roo pbaT tho annroacbat. nf D1ba,, l25 miles west northwest of Mos COW, blasting German attachments with Sub-machine guns as they ad- vanced
 Russian claims to Dorokhovo in- dicated definitely that the German army defending the Mozhaisk area, anchor of the entire German line west of Moscow, was in danger of anihilation. It was noted that s. A. Lozoysky, chief Russian war spokesman, said at kuibyshev last night that something would be heard in a few days of this situa- ton.
 Announcement of the recapture of Kirov implied a second and impor- thiLI D4cdh III WIIdJ WdS UO nave been the second German winter line" along the Bryansk -Vyazma railroad. Previously the Russians had cracked the line at Lyudinovo to the south.
 Here the Russians were apparent ly not farther than 90 miles from Smolensk, whence Adolf Hitler was reported to have fled his recently established headquarters there.
 Moscow made it plain that the air force was cooperating effectively with ground troops in harassing the retreating Germans at every step. Last nights war communicate as- serted that on Monday alone Rus sian planes destroyed three tanks, l7 field guns and 625 trucks and carts Of various kinds, set fire to ob railroad cars and blew up two ammunition dumps, in addition to killing many men in German regi- ment