The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-23

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satellite nations as Hungary and
Rumania, the Red Army Is using
only Its own forces.
"The Russian armies are tireleSsly
and uninterruptedly engaging In
fierce combat along the entire front
from the Arctic to tho Black sea
against .tenths OF the Axis
armies" he said.
Lo7ovsky asserted that immense"
Russian reserves are entering the
struggle and are "refuting Ger.
many's boasts that the Red Army
has been destroyed"
The official Tass News Agency,
In O Cairo report, said that Nazl
pressure and open threats had been
unable TO compel the Hungarian
government TO send 100000 HunSar-
Ian troops TO the Russian front.
The official newspaper 1zvestia
reported the capture OF the German
orded OF the day predicting O Rus
sian offensive.
The order, issued by q regimental
commander, warned troops that the
maximum Of caution must be OBJ
served.
Observers here interpreted the Or
der as additional evidence that the
Germans were losing confidence In
Adolf Hitlers ability after his heavy
winter losses 10 open O spring Of
fenSlve on the scale Of which he
had boosted.
Front dispatches said melting
SHOWS all along the front had uncoy-
cred the bodies Of tens Of thousands
OF German soldiers killed In the WIN
ter campaign.
A huge snow mound inside the
city Of Yukhnov revealed thousands
OF bodies heaped together, 1t was
said, and more thousands were found
In bitches outside the city.
MIlitiamen and thousands Of civ
ilians have been detailed to salvage
German weapons and equipment on
former battlefield now far behind
the German lines, 1t was reported.
A correspondent Of the official
Communist party newspaper Pravda
wrote Of the YuknnoV scene, that
the Russians when they retook the
town long ago paid no attention to
O snowdrift in the central square.
Now, they said, 1t was revealed that
the Germans had dug an enormous
pit and In II had thrown their dead.
Only a few bodies were In collins,
Pravda said. And the rest were
heaped haphazardly some In uni
forms, some in underwear, some
barefooted, some In boots stolen from
Russian civilians.
Special dispatches said that on
the southern front the Germans had
given up, for the present at least,
their counter-attacks after suffer
ing heavy defeat. Now, the dis
patches said, the Germans were for
trying populated places for defense.
Italians Retreating
They described how an italian
force had tried ar thanking move
ment in strength to break into the
Russian rear. The Russians held
their fire, permitting the Italians
to advance, and then went in to
the attack in a pincers movement.
There was but a brief fight, the
dispatches said, for the Italians fled
after the first salvoes Of field guns
and trench mortars. leaving half
their men on the field killed or
wounded.
A correspondent for the newspa-
per Krasnaya Zvezda reported from
the Kalinin front northwest Of Mos
COW, that Russian troops keep
pushing the enemy farther west"
"a formation Of our troops began
an offensive against one populated
place where the Germans had pre-
pared q strong defense" he wrote.
when our units Unexpectedly
launched q reSolute attack, the
enemy wavered and began to retreat.
Our units Immediately undertook the
humiliation of small enemy groups
which scattered into the adjacent
woods