The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-04

l. northwest of etalingrad) our troops beat oil Hitlerite attacks and on various sectors counter.attacked German tanks and infantry" the Soviet conamunique said last mid night.
 "One rife unit wiped out over 1000 Germans. Eighteen enemy planes have been shot down by our planes in the last 24 hours"
 A second Soviet unit was credited with killing 250 Germans and talk ing prisoners in one days fighting. Midnight COmmunique
 The midnight communique re- ported stubborn fighting with an enemy unit which crossed to the south bank of the Don in the Tsim- lyanskaya area, halfway between RoStov and Stalingrad. The Ger mans had previously thrown units across the Don in that TStmlyans- kaya area, but apparently they were not strong enough to prepare the way for mass crossings. Besides, the Russians were trying to annihilate units which got across, and Soviet planes and artillery constantly pounded pontoon bridges.
 "Our artillery disabled eight tanks from several dozen which attacked our positions" the com- munique asserted. Tn this battle, the enemy lost 25O killed" ''T'he German official news agency quoted a military source that sin the large bend of the Don the So- vietS again are throwing large tank forces into counter attacks"
 In the salsk area, Soviet forces which engaged in heavy defensive fighting with the Germans yester- day, destroyed five German tanks, 12 anti-tank guns and eight anti aircraft and machine gun emplace- ments On one sector, the midnight communique reported. The Ger mans lost more than 400 dead on the sector.
 "In the Kuschevka area, there was particularly heavy fighting" the communique said. "One large inhabited locality changed hands thrice during the day. The enemy suffered heavy losses. Seven enemy tanks were disabled and more than 300 of the enemy killed"
 (The Germans claimed yesterday that the Germans were approach ing the upper course of the Kuban river, and scattered local resistance by the Soviets was broken :" A trans-ocean agency dispatch said German and Rumanian forces were throwing the Russians back toward the east between the Sal and Don riverS.)
 German nScircIed
 London, Aug. 4. British Broad cast recorded by UP in New York; A large German force has been en- circled in the big bend of the Don west of Stanngrad and Is being pounded by Russian artillery and Stormovik dive -bombers it was re- ported from Moscow today
 The oMscow correspondent of the British Broadcasting company said that between the Germans and Stalingrad stand veteran Soviet divisions which are interpreting lit- orally Josef Stalin's order to "die rather than retreat"
 Many Are Killed
 Radio oMscow reported today that many German officers and enlised men had been killed or wounded in q collisio nbetween trop train and Q gasoline train between Douai and ArraS in northwestern occupied France
 Moscow said the troop train was going at full speed when it struck the gasoline train and as the result of explosions and fire A railroad cars, I9 gasoline tank cars and two locomotives were destroyed.
 Moscow, in broadcast recorded by the United Press in New York, implied that Trench patriots had caused the collision
 It said patriot railroad men in the occupied zone continued to disrupt and disorganize German military transport and that at railroad sta- tioin the Seine Inferieure depart ment, on the English Channel, patriots had blown up a German ammunition train.